Conflict of the sexes in 'Paying Guest'
Paying Guests is likely to merge into your memory with movies like Dhamaal, Golmaal Returns and
Paying Guests
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Jaaved Jaaferi, Ashish Chowdhary, Celina Jaitley, Neha Dhupia
Director: Paritosh Painter
Rating: **
Paritosh Painter makes a commendable transition from stage to screen, both as director and in translating his play to a different medium. You can see how Paying Guests would make for a riotous theatrical piece.
When four homeless and unemployed young men decide to pose as two married couples in order to land PG accommodation, you know you are in for some slapstick situations.
So, Shreyas Talpade and Jaaved Jaaferi pose as Karishma and Kareena, wives of Ashish Chowdhary and Vastal Sheth, so that they can get a cheap room. How to keep up the pretence while also retaining their own girlfriends and jobs and fighting off a lisping bad guy form the gist of the story.
Can someone please give Chunky Pandey other roles? It’s tiresome to see him play a buffoon bad boy with a speech impediment in film after film. Paying Guests is likely to merge into your memory with movies like Dhamaal, Golmaal Returns and Apna Sapna Money Money.
Painter keeps the proceedings crisp, but he loses a grip with the writing and in a Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron/ Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam-like climax which is very stupid. Talpade, Jaaferi and Johny Lever raise the bar in the acting department which is otherwise peopled with hams and token glamour (and so many unnecessary characters).
It’s a little discomforting about watching men dressed as women being ‘raped’ by lecherous men. If this sounds funny to you, you might enjoy Paying Guests.
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Jaaved Jaaferi, Ashish Chowdhary, Celina Jaitley, Neha Dhupia
Director: Paritosh Painter
Rating: **
Paritosh Painter makes a commendable transition from stage to screen, both as director and in translating his play to a different medium. You can see how Paying Guests would make for a riotous theatrical piece.
When four homeless and unemployed young men decide to pose as two married couples in order to land PG accommodation, you know you are in for some slapstick situations.
So, Shreyas Talpade and Jaaved Jaaferi pose as Karishma and Kareena, wives of Ashish Chowdhary and Vastal Sheth, so that they can get a cheap room. How to keep up the pretence while also retaining their own girlfriends and jobs and fighting off a lisping bad guy form the gist of the story.
Can someone please give Chunky Pandey other roles? It’s tiresome to see him play a buffoon bad boy with a speech impediment in film after film. Paying Guests is likely to merge into your memory with movies like Dhamaal, Golmaal Returns and Apna Sapna Money Money.
Painter keeps the proceedings crisp, but he loses a grip with the writing and in a Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron/ Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam-like climax which is very stupid. Talpade, Jaaferi and Johny Lever raise the bar in the acting department which is otherwise peopled with hams and token glamour (and so many unnecessary characters).
It’s a little discomforting about watching men dressed as women being ‘raped’ by lecherous men. If this sounds funny to you, you might enjoy Paying Guests.