One night with "Bheja Fry" ...

The date was 30th April, 2007 and I was in Bangalore. As planned, I had to watch a movie with my friends, and fortunately, it was the only hindi movie available that time, that I had not watched, went by the name "Bheja Fry". The theatre was PVR cinemas in The Forum.

Well, we 4, got ready with tickets (Oops!!! I forgot, I have to transfer money to my Credit card now). I was told, it was a pure vegeterian comedy movie and there I was to see how it goes in PVR with all the modern audience!

As rightly said, it was a comedy movie without so called double-meaning sentences (/words) or slapstick strokes often cracked by David Dhawan or Priyadarshan movies. Well, the meaning of the movie title in english is "Racking Brains" (Hmm...Sounds non-veg from the title, right?). Neither did it rack our brains but stung stomachs with the hysterical laughter pangs induced throughout its runtime.

Let me put some light on the movie story and characters ...

The main ingredient in this Bheja Fry is an idiot who is the hero of the film. And the idea to have an idiot as the hero isn't idiotic at all. The idiot here isn't really dumb but is least conscious or bothered about the world around and doesn't realize that people are laughing on his expense. If you just ponder, you will come across so many idiots like these in real life. Vinay Pathak plays one such idiot with utmost conviction.

Bheja Fry is a story of a group of affluent high society men who organize talent dinners every Friday night. Talent dinner is a dinner where all these riches get in one such idiot of their own, who unassumingly displays his stupid talent and the group is entertained on his expense. The one who gets the most entertaining idiot wins. Ranjeet Thadani (Rajat Kapoor), a music company owner is in hunt of one such 'bakra' for his talent dinner. And then he stumbles upon Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak) whom he invites home. Mr. Bharat Bhushan who considers himself as a singer looks forward to this dinner. Ranjeet wife's Sheetal (Sarika) detests her husband's nasty ways of deriving fun and leaves the house out of annoyance on the dinner day. Further things go wrong when Bhushan lands up in the house followed by a lot of unexpected guests including Sheetal's ex-boyfriend (Milind Soman), Ranjeet's girlfriend (Bhairavi Goswami) and an income tax-officer (Ranvir Shorey).

Without any second thoughts, Bheja Fry belongs whole-heartedly to Vinay Pathak. His look, mannerisms, vocabulary, dialogue delivery, laughing style and many other such minute detailing add utmost level of authenticity to his character. Not just his comic timing is flawless, so is his spontaneity. And unlike other comic actors of recent times who make you laugh by poking fun of others, Vinay makes you laugh at his character's expense. I can not forget the dialogues that were coming out of him (How can I when whole audience was repeating the words with him in the theatre ?).

Amazing style of locking his suitcase, which contained only his so-called certificates as a proof of his singing talent; each time uttering the word "It's Ringing" after dialing a number; and uttering the word "Redial" after calling a person 2nd time pressing the RD button in the phone system; and his wonderful shortcut "TGIF" that he explained as "Thank God, It's Friday"...

Well, after watching a good movie (which lasted for 1:40 hrs max), we headed for dinner. The hotel we chose was "A Taste Of Rampur", 24, 1st Floor, 5th Block , Koramangala Industrial Layout. With the hang-ups of the movie discussions and dialogues, the dinner session and then, rest of the night passed ...