Even after being warned not to see and even after keeping zero expectations I realised that seeing Cirkus was a mistake.
It’s that kind of mind-numbingly bad.
Shakespeare wrote Comedy of Errors .. One of the first films made was Do Dooni Char in 1968 written by Gulzar , who remade it as Angoor in 1982.
Do Dooni Char had Kishore Kumar and Asit Sen while Angoor had Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma.
Rohit Shetty who is inspired by old time comedies ( Gol Maal, Khatta Meetha, Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar) this time takes up Comedy of Errors in Cirkus.
( A film conceived with Shahrukh..and finally made with Ranveer and Varun Sharma).
The film starts in 1942 with Roy Jamnadas of Jamnadas Orphanage (from Golmaal) experimenting with interchanging two sets of identical twins just to prove parvarish (upbringing) > khoon (blood relation).
Also, wow, the parents name all 4 kids Roy (Ranveer Singh), and Joy (Varun Sharma) keeping respect to the founders of the orphanage. (Murli Sharma and Uday Tikekar).
So, now, we have got a pair of Roy-Joy shaping up their lives in Bangalore as businessmen & the other pair of Roy-Joy performing in a circus in Ooty. Trust me it looks as absurd as it sounds. Ooty’s Roy gets famous as the ‘Electric Man’ as iska “Bijli se koi rishta hai”..but when he holds the live wires.. current passes through the other Roy..
(A tribute to Judwaa..for another dash of Masala).The whole story revolves around how the Bangalore pair go to Ooty for business and what will happen when both these twin pairs will face each other (Spoiler alert: Nothing interesting happens).
Apart from these 2 twin pairs, a whole bunch of comedians is stuffed along with the Rohit Shetty regulars.
Sanjay Mishra does his best but seems to ham ( his style reminder of his work in Rohit Shetty's " All the Best" (2009) but still remains a standout.
What I enjoyed !!
The retro songs used in various sequences..
Title track of Johnny Mera Naam,
Dil ka bhanwar kare pukar
Badan pe sitare
Chalti ka naam gaadi
Aa jaane jaan
Jaata Kahan hai deewane
Tu kya jaane bewafa
Jaa re Jaa Harjaayi ..
Towards the end of the film, a chain of people get electric seizures to the song, Piya Tu Ab To Aaja .
Apart from that the Retro look is Jarred and an eye sore.
The film is peppered with self-references to multiple other Rohit Shetty films like Singham but Cirkus FINALLY ends with a Golmaal returns reference, putting an end to my misery.
(Honestly slept through the last 10 mins or so).
Comedy of Errors becomes Error in Comedy here.
I think it will be worth seeing Angoor once to get over this Cirkus.(More illogical than its spelling)
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