'Ek se bure do' releases

In the ongoing quarrel between film producers and the multiplexes, an unaccounted for casualty is the film critic.

Duty-bound, we watch every release of the week, even it means crawling through Mumbai traffic and heat for two hours to a remote and uncomfortable screening room and then endure hours of torture (punctuated by oily samosas and soggy sandwiches) at the hands of some deluded filmmaker.

By the end of two such travesties, presented back-to-back, the critic is left with a headache, backache, indigestion and the pressing questions — why do these films get made, who funds them, will anyone spend hard-earned money to tolerate them, and how many brain cells did I just waste on these experiences?

Read on to find out: 

There’s Ek Se Bure Do.

A film that opens with over-exposed film stock and burnt out visuals. You brace yourself but nothing can prepare you for what lies ahead.

 The Archeological Survey of India has located a precious map. On the instruction of a don, Jagat Dada (Govind Namdeo), small-time crooks Titu (Arshad Warsi) and Tony (Rajpal Yadav) steal the map and decide to find the treasure themselves. But what can you expect from two buffoons who set out to rob a bank but end up at a blood bank.

Other evil types are also after the same map. They all follow the map to a treasure in a house that looks like a Monginis pastry and is inhabited by rich man Vikramaditya (Namdeo in a double roll) and his two nieces Payal (Anita) and Gahna (Trisha Pandey).
By the end we never find out what the treasure is, maybe it is a metaphor for ‘finding love’ (ewww!) because Titu and Tony fall in love with Payal and Gehna and everyone lives happily ever after. Everyone, except the poor audience that needs a Saridon to recover from this assault and hypnosis to erase the image of Ganesh Acharya gyrating on screen.

Ek Se Bure Do
Cast: Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Anita, Govind Namdeo
Director: Tarique
Rating: 1/2