Mr White Mr Black : Movie Review
After a four year haitus , Deepak Shivdasani is back to the stream with an out-and-out comedy flick titled ‘Mr. White Mr. Black’.
Macho man Suniel Shetty and Munnabhai’s circuit Arshad Warsi play the roles of Mr. White and Mr. Black respectively. Mahima Mehta, Rashmi Nigam and debutant actress Anishka Khosla form the female lead of the movie.
But the eternal question remains……’Is Mr. White Mr. Black funny enough to tickle your funny bone for 2 and half hours?’
The movie begins deceptively. There is a stylish heist of diamonds by a bunch of three shapely, hot girls. Having been caught off guard, you adjust in your seat, bracing up for something sensational to follow. But what you get is a mustachioed Gopi ( Sunil Shetty ) coming from his village Hoshiarpur to Goa to find his brother Kishen ( Arshad Warsi ).
Gopi (Sunil Shetty) a simpleton, arrives in Goa. His mission - to hand over an incredibly tiny piece of land to his childhood friend Kishen, which was his father’s last wish. Kishen (Arshad Warsi), now a conman, swindles people with a little help from his accomplice, Babu (Atul Kale), to earn enough money to educate his sibling Divya (Mahima Mehta) who’s studying in London. Kishen,living to his reputation, he even fools his girlfriend ( Rashmi Nigam ) into thinking that the crook is his twin brotherHari, for whose crimes he unduly gets blamed.
While Kishen avoids Gopi as if he has plague, a pretty young thing , who happens to be the daughter of a rich man, falls for Gopi.
Kishen is not going to give up his flourishing business and travel to Hoshiyarpur just to take possession of a measly piece of land! Gopi, in his mission of chasing Kishen, is given a helping hand by love-smitten Tanya (Anishka Khosla), daughter of the owner of KG Resorts.
Diamonds worth crores have been stolen in a breathtaking heist by three gorgeous girls who are now holed up at KG Resorts. As the movie plods through its plot-holes, Kishen, Babu and everyone else learns about this and joins the mad race to get their hands on the diamonds worth Rs 25 crore that actually belong to an unforgiving don (Aashish Vidyarthi).In all this mayhem, Gopi finds himself a part of the gang.
Who gets the diamonds? Does Gopi manage to take Kishen to Hoshiyarpur? And was the land just a meager piece of land or something more? The answers are out in black and white by the time you go through this hectic cinematic maze!
Mr. White, Mr. Black strives hard to make you laugh. There just isn’t any story but rather just a set of silly sequences and foolish jokes put together sloppily along with some dull music to complete the required time to qualify as a movie.
The first half of the movie is not even remotely close to what you call a comedy movie. Post interval, few moments make you smile, but that’s about it. At regular intervals the story shifts focus to some other characters that have very little significance in the movie. To add to this, the performance by the star cast is just satisfactory. Music is no relief. It just doesn’t gel with the tunes of this day and is very repulsive.
Sharat Saxena steals the show with a good performance. Suniel Shetty isnt at his comic best. Arshad Warsi disappoints. Amongst the girls, Anishka Khosla is below average. Mahima Mehta is bad and so is Rashmi Nigam. Sandhya Mridul looks bad.
Overall,if you are looking forward to an entertaining weekend, Mr. White Mr. Black is not the answer.
The film, attempted as a comedy, turns out to be a somewhat tragic experience for the unsuspecting viewers who walk in the cinema halls expecting some good laughs but walk out with their expressions suggesting they have endured some kind of torture.
To say that the film is a childish, imbecilic comedy would be a gross understatement. With a plot that seems to go nowhere (or everywhere at whim), ‘Mr. White Mr. Black’ throws at you heaps of unimaginable tripe lathered with some beaten-to-death clichés.
What ‘Mr. White Mr. Black’ lacks is a good script peppered with witty oneliners. The comedy in the film is mostly a bland mix of slapstick and kitschy moments patched up unintelligibly to make a hodgepodge of a movie. It is not that there are no funny gags, but they are few and far between. On top of it, the film’s plot really goes haywire in the second half with the romantic tracks involving the two heroes and the unwanted songs that only test your patience.The less written about performances, the better. Arshad Warsi is wasted in a role that seems to have no real comic backbone. Sunil Shetty is not made for comedy. Yet he keeps trying such roles in vain. The two girls, Rashmi Nigam and Anishka Khosla, simper and smile at right moments but don’t show much acting potential. In supporting roles, Aashish Vidyarthi is over the top. Sharat Saxena is somewhat tolerable.
Maybe you should just gift the tickets to your best friend turned enemy as a goodwill gesture!!! Or gift a CD of the songs to the girl/boy you want to break-up with! The message will be loud and clear without any of the normal melodrama.
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