There are no gunfights, explosions, flying cars, terrorists, or hardcore social sermonising in Cirkus.
#CIRKUS ORFEJ MOVIE#
In between every big, brawny action movie comes a brash, non-brainy comedy. In Sanjay Mishra’s voice-Just joking!Ĭast:Ranveer Singh, Varun Sharma, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez, Murali Sharma, Siddharth Jadhav, Ashwini Kalshekarĭirector Rohit Shetty really likes mixing it up. At one point, everyone looks to the camera and begs the audience for forgiveness.No, they don’t. The penultimate scene is the characters sitting in a row and apologising to each other. When nothing works, Rohit simply nods to his past films or pulls up his rickety ’60s jukebox.
He arrives with his usual comedy troupe-Mishra, Mukesh Tiwari, Siddharth Jadhav, Vrajesh Hirjee, Ashwini Kalshekar, Johnny Lever, Sulabha Arya-yet what’s the point if they are all playing slightly different versions of their past characters and getting called ‘chamkadar’ and ‘bujurg lomri’ in return? I was disturbed, not amused, by watching Ranveer and Siddharth Jadhav pull grisly faces and whip each other in the nuts.
The film reiterates what a limited filmmaker Rohit Shetty actually is. The 1982 film even had funny roles for Moushumi Chatterjee and Deepti Naval while Pooja Hegde and Jacqueline Fernandez are instantly forgotten.Ĭirkus is a visual and aural bore. That’s like comparing grapes and oranges. Varun Sharma is occasionally involving as his bemused wingman, though nowhere as memorable as Deven Verma in Angoor. As a comic presence, though, he seems weirdly reined in, a shocking twist in his third Shetty film. Since he’s playing identical twins, and since the fun emerges from them not meeting till the end of the film, Ranveer gets by fine. And there’s a small update, graciously included, to suit modern sensibilities: Joy in either case isn’t a slave but an equal sibling.Īttempting his first-ever double role, Ranveer Singh is running with giants like Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan and Anil Kapoor. The film is set in the 60s, so mobile phones and social media don’t trip up affairs. The two Roys are preternaturally connected by electricity: While one, a muscly performer, can’t be zapped at all, making a show of it in his circus’s final act, the poor Bangalore chap is simultaneously fried by the heavy current passing through his twin’s body. Rohit, to his credit, adds a few novel touches to his version. The famous Shakespearean play has been adapted numerous times in Indian films-most popularly by Gulzar in his 1982 classic Angoor. You guessed it-it’s The Comedy of Errors. However, on a trip to Ooty, Bangalore Joy is mistaken for Ooty Joy and Bangalore Roy for Ooty Roy. He’s spent thirty years guarding this secret from the world. ‘Roy2 and Joy2’, as a doctor (Murali Sharma) explains, were two pairs of identical twins-switched and separated at birth by him to prove his theory that ‘parvarish’ (nurture) trumps ‘khoon’ (bloodline). So do Circus-owners Roy (Ranveer Singh) and Joy (Varun Sharma) in Ooty. Two brothers, Roy (Ranveer Singh) and Joy (Varun Sharma), run a family business in Bangalore. The elementary writing and playschool set design convinced me I was stuck inside a nursery rhyme. But when a film insists on electrocuting you with dead gags and Sanjay Mishra’s insufferable anglophone, what escape is left?Ĭirkus unfolds, like all Shetty comedies, in a glob of obviousness. As a critic, I can rant about the pernicious politics of Sooryavanshi and go to sleep. I don’t have a preferred mode of voluntary Shettian brain-bashing, but I’ll take action films any day.
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