PAYING GUESTS: the movie
Posted on June 22, 2009
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What happens when four young, fun loving boys [Shreyas Talpade, Jaaved Jaffrey, Ashish Chowdhary and Vatsal Sheth] begin a crazy house hunt which takes them through a series of ultra comical hurdles in a bid to find that one roof that can tolerate and shelter their combined problems? Shreyas Talpade , Ashish Choudhary and Javed Jaffrey are three friends in Pattaya (Thailand) who incidentally lose their jobs on the same day. Even before the three begin to pull themselves out of the uninvited misery, arrives Vatsal Seth , an uninvited cousin from India to find a job in Thailand. In the search for a new accommodation, these crazy friends manage to convince their crazier landlord Ballu (played by Johnny Lever) to keep them as paying guests but, Ballu has one condition i.e. he wants only couples.
They give in to his conditions but how-they are all bachelors! Who will play their wives? The quartet in ‘Paying Guests’—Shreyas, Jaaved, Ashish and Vatsal—don’t have matinee idol looks, nor are their digs destined to be quite so posh, so they have to make do with the humbler, cheaper Pattaya beach, and a determinedly low brow plot. Actually, it’s not really any kind of plot, just a series of scenes being played broadly, very broadly, for laughs. Jaaved and Shreyas stuff oranges down their vests, paint their lips, and become the ‘wives’ (the other two are the ‘husbands’), because that’s the only way landlord Jhonny Lever will let out rooms. Each of the guys has a girl, naturally, and some of those girls have pesky dads, and bad attitudes. The new drama triggers a serious of confusions that builds into the rich complexities of mistaken identities and a climax of comic wizardries..Paying Guests becomes painful and crowded when all the men start parading their women, who wear little expressions and even lesser clothes.
As far as the performances in the film are concerned, there are some above average performances but they don’t have enough substance to hold a film that lacks its base, we mean the script.
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i like the movie alot & specially javid’s acting in movie is superb