C Kkompany(Hindi)

Settling scores

Creative Quotient:
Telly host Akshay Kumar (Tusshar) is in love with local don, Dattu Satellite (Mithun)’s sister Priya (Raima) and he must muster enough funds to be able to elope with his high-maintenance girl friend. Shorty Jha(Rajpal) suffers an inferiority complex and he wants to redeem his stature in the eyes of his scornful son and wife. And Joshi(Anupam Kher) is a retired accountant whose son and bahu wish to drive him out to work again, so he now wants to settle a score with his negligient son and recover all the money he’s invested in his upbringing. These three men live in the same building and share the same aspirations.They hatch a plan to give Joshi’s builder son a call on behalf of the underworld and exhort a heavy sum from him. They form a fictitious mafia company - the C Kompany. Their first crank call works wonders and emboldened by it they start making more calls, mostly acting as good samaritans and helping out troubled commoners. Soon C Kkompany has upstaged Dattu Satellite. By now a reality show has been launched wherein a redressal forum has C Kkompany providing solutions to chronic public problems. How long can the C Kkompany hold on to the farce? The plot borrows the spirit of Munnabhai but uses lighter moments aplenty. Ekta Kapoor being cross-questioned over her moral ethics in making her K-serials adds to the comedy. But the makers have plugged in Balaji Telefilms too strongly - going to the extent of having a telestar-studded song a la Om Shanti Om .

Technical Expertise:
The music and dance sequences have been most atrociously over-used in the film and the maker could have spared the viewer all the torture. Despite low star-value and the film works on account of its spontaneous humour. Yardi’s lines work well in the film. Technically, Sanjay Jadhav’s cinematography is commendable and so are R Verman's and Ashok Lokare’s authentic sets and backdrops. Of the actors Tusshar, Rajpal, Kher and Mithun essay their parts effortlessly. But Dilip Prabhawalkar’s caricature as a chawl dweller is too predictable.
On the whole producer Ekta could have done better than to hire junior artistes for supporting roles as the film scores low on production values.

Rating:
One star for the jokes and one for the fun on the run