Movie Review: Humshakals

Nowadays, stupidity is also a genre, why? Because it has been accepted by the audience, movies like Gunda, Loha (Kanti Shah Masterpieces) and lately Chennai Express had been setting milestones. When ‘stupidity’ and ‘leave your brains at home’ type phrases are referred, comedy automatically pops up in mind. Sajid Khan Movies are pure expression of comedy through stupidity. Up to an extent he had been successful in this journey having delivered successful movies (not good movies) like Housefull and Housefull 2.

 After watching Humshakkals, it seems Sajid Khan has taken the Indian audience for granted. People dancing, slapping each other, making parathas of cocaine and vodka, gay situations, ball kicking and punching, mental asylum and electric shocks is all the ‘comic content’ that this movie features. Take this entire list of crap and sprinkle some pointless non funny jokes and Sajid Khan recipe is ready. Haven’t we already had enough of Houseful and Houseful 2 to bear all this?

Humshakkals features the story of two best friends Ashok (Saif Ali Khan) and Kumar (Ritesh Deshmukh), Ashok’s father is in coma so at present he owns his dad’s business. Ashok’s passion is doing stand up comedy, sorry, I mean, his passion is telling idiotic non sense jokes to an empty hall. 

There he meets Shanaya (Tamanna), a reality show host, and a very talented girl; she is talented because she happens to like those jokes. She and Ashok fall in love over a breakfast during that stupid caller tune song. Ashok’s maternal uncle Kunwar Amar Nath Singh, abbreviated as KANS (Ram Kapoor) wants the take over the Singhania property hence he somehow wants Ashok out of the scene, hence during a board meeting he mixes a drug into Ashok’s water, the drug is such that whoever consumes it starts thinking that he is a dog. First Kumar drinks it and then Ashok also drinks it and start behaving like dogs. 

They are declared mentally insane and therefore admitted into a mental hospital. This mental hospital already has their duplicates in another ward, surprisingly; none of the staffs had noticed this. 

The mental hospital consists of a warden who likes torturing the mental patients not to cure them but to please his Gods namely Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussain, Gaddafi and two more dictators. He claims that these dictators would award him a gold medal of torture for showing them Himmatwala. The insane duplicates of Ashok and Kumar who happen to have the same name get discharged mistakenly and the decent ones remain inside. Later on Ashok and Kumar learn about KANS’s conspiracy and decide to teach him a lesson, they happen to find out a duplicate of KANS, this duplicate doesn’t like any one sneezing on him because he thinks that the sneezer is trying to kill him by showering the germs on him. Rest of the story is trash. It won’t even make you laugh except in some scenes of Ram Kapoor because of ‘him being fat’ jokes. The second worst part of the movie was Saif Ali Khan, the worst part was the movie itself.

I think Sajid Khan should stop using the phrase ‘a Sajid Khan entertainer’ in all his movie tag lines. Instead he should use ‘another Sajid Khan crap straight from the washroom’. If you are expecting comedy and entertainment, do yourself a favour, grab your newspaper and checkout the TV program schedule for the list of comedy films or shows that will be on air the particular day because this movie will only waste your time, money, mood and maybe popcorn also. 

On a scale of 1 to 5, I'll rate it 2.

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