Krazzy 4

Director: Jaideep Sen
Cast: Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon
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Not again! Another over-the-top comedy and this time with a senti-‘mental’ shade to the story which only ends up being detri-‘mental’ to your mental health. When will the mentality of moviemakers change?

The fundamental idea of Krazzy 4 is clearly inspired from an English film The Dream Team and is sketched into a screenplay which is as much manipulated as the title of the film. Alas the makers seek numerological aid for the title but are at lack of logic when it comes to treatment.

The four title characters are supposedly mental patients but surprisingly seem to be fit and fine to physical and psychological perfection. Raja (Arshad Warsi) is temperamental. Daboo (Suresh Menon) can’t speak. Mukherjee (Irrfan Khan) is a cleanliness freak with an obsessive compulsive disorder for neatness. Gangadhar (Rajpal Yadav) still lives in a bygone era as outdated as the flavour of this film. There is no backing to the background accounts of these loosely drafted characters or any explanation on how they landed in the mental hospital.

Dr. Sonali (Juhi Chawla) feels the quartet needs some time away from the hospital and takes them to the city to watch a cricket match. Unfortunately in the city Sonali is kidnapped and the foursome is stranded. Conveniently Raj stumbles upon his ex-girlfriend (Dia Mirza) while Mukherjee meets his daughter on some random road. The script is crammed with many more of such cinematic coincidences until it comes to a clichéd climax where the four give long lectures on how its better off being dim-witted than being bad in the mad world outside.

The irony with our comedies is that when characters are expected to act sane they go blaringly berserk, and when they are expected to act mad like in this one, they end up appearing rational. While the four characters here are expected to be stupid, they exhibit more intelligence than the rest of the commonsensical cast put together. They stand for the National Anthem, sing expressive songs and also carry off a sting operation successfully.

From an unscrupulous politician who gets his own wife kidnapped to corrupt cops, Ashwini Dheer employs every possible formula in his wangled screenplay. Almost every gone-off gag is stretched beyond its expiry date until it backfires in reflex action. Just for instance there is an entire track dedicated on how earning just one rupee in this materialistic world is so difficult. How redundantly ridiculous!

Jaideep Sen’s directorial touch is equally slapdash, reminiscent of a substandard 80s potboiler. Resorting to a crude Rakhi Sawant item number to wheeling rickshaws in climax chases, the director clearly caters to the front-benchers. Unfortunately these days cinema halls do not fill up till front row capacity.

Even the performances of the much capable cast aren’t inspiring, to say the least. Arshad Warsi’s repeated anger bouts do not amuse. Irrfan Khan looks uninterested. The immensely talented Suresh Menon is criminally wasted in a mute role. Rajpal Yadav is bearable this time around.

Crazy has different connotations from passionate to mad. While the director doesn’t seem to be passionate about his craft, he surely makes you go mad by the end of the show.