Andaz Apna Apna! - A forgotten movie
Since my vacations have been going on I have unusually found a lot of time for myself doing things I thought I should do and also things which I never thought I would do. Surfing the channels on television I started watching one of the classic comedy movies of Bollywood- Andaz Apna Apna directed by Rajkumar Santoshi! For some reason I started analyzing the movie and enjoying its every second. This 90’s movie looks like a low budget film with a amazing star cast of Aamir(Amar manohar) and Salman(Prem Bhopali) and also had Karishma and Raveena along with Paresh Rawal (double role of twins- Ram Gopal Bajaj and Teja), Shakti Kapoor (Crime master Gogo), Bhalla(Shehazad Khan…remember Lion/ Ajit) and Viju Khote(Robert)
I must be watching this movie co-incidentally every year at least 2-3 times just because it’s on television. There is an amazing essence of humour to every minute of the movie with Aamir’s over-confident and street smart character saying “Jhakaas!” all the time rolling his fingers through his hair balanced well with Salman’s simplicity and stupidity saying, “oyeeeee Maaa!”. Aamir turns into Tilu, the Jamal gota scene, Paresh Rawal as Teja is hilarious every time I watch it, to the same extent!
Shakti Kapoor's character (for some reason he was really funny in this film), Crime Master Gogo, is supposedly the nephew of Mogambo, the villain immortalized by Amrish Puri in Mr. India. The movie also makes references to the famous line "Mogambo Khush Hua" (Mogambo is pleased) during the many confrontations between Bhalla, Robert and Crime Master Gogo.
Some of the most under-rated dialogues in bollywood come from this movie especially the comedy ones:
Crime Master Gogo: Yeh teja teja kya hai yeh teja teja, Yeh teja teja kya hai yeh teja teja.
Crime Master Gogo: Aanken nikalke gotiyan khelunga!
Teja: the dialogue when he imagines of buying a poultry farm from bajaj’s diamonds from where the hens will lay eggs of which he’ll make omlette and open a bakery and eat omlette-bread for breakfast everyday.
: “Vasco da gama ki gun.”
“Kiske mama ki gun?”
: “Sorry ghaltee se mistake ho gaya.”
: “uncle aap ko ghalt fehmi ho gayee hai, asli uncle aap hee hain.”
Amir: “Inspector saab, yeh aapki shakal pe ja raha hai'!”
Inspector: “hain… kya matlub”
Amir: “yeh aapko baywakoof samajh raha hai, isay kya maloom ke aap baywakoof, jahil shakal se lagtay hain magar hain nahi.”
Amir: “Tum jo ho woh tum nahi koi aur hai, woh jo hai woh woh nahi koi aur hai, main jo hoon woh main nahi, ya main bhi koi aur hoon? Main kaun hoon?"
Amir: “Suno suno duniya ke logon, sabse bada hai Mr Gogo!”
Amir and Salam arrive to pay the ransom to teja on mopid ... That scene was hillarious...when Amir shouts at teja.."Tumhara plan hi theek nahi hai, tumhain beti ko kidnap kar ke baap se paisay mangney chaheye they .....Mujh ko tu ye koi kacha khiladi lagta hai!"
Final fight scene in the underground lair… Gogo, amir and salman behind walking down the stairs salman pickes up gogo's cape and says, “Gogo sahab, aapka ghaaghra!”
Crime Master Gogo: Dhik ki tikir, dhik ki tikir, dhik ki tikir, dhik ki tikir dhik!
When Salman Khan is asked whether he has seen the movie Sholay (1975), he says "Haan, pure tees baar (yes, thirty times)", Aamir Khan jokingly says "Iske baap ne likhi hai" (his father has written it). This is true. Salman Khan's father Salim Khan was one the co-writers of the 1975 blockbuster Sholay.
After watching this film with a first look, I couldn’t stop raving about how remarkable Aamir Khan is at comic roles and so was Shakti Kapoor. Aamirs comic timing, speech and expressions are insanely close to perfect, if not perfect. Almost all his scenes makes one hit the rewind button and watch it again. Aamir Khan officially impressed me after this movie (although I liked his past performances as well.)…If you ask me… I would tell you its a must watch, 90’s Bollywood Comedy… Jhakaas!!
posted by Omkar @ 11:36 AM
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