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Home > Bollywood Movie Reviews > One Two Three Review One Two Three Review - Another Stolen-wealth Comedy APK | March 28, 2008 Rating: **.5 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) User comments Cinematography: Nirmal Jani. Lyrics: Aditya Dhar. Music: Raghav Sachar. Writer & Director: Ashwani Dhir. Producer: Kumar Mangat. Presenter: Eros International. Banner: Big Screen Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Release Date: 28th March, 2008. After a spate of multi-starrer comedies clicked at the BO starting with the inimitable Hera Pheri, the theme is here to stay. One Two Three, the latest in the line to join this group, oscillates between repetitiveness and some funny lines that invariably make you laugh. The characters, the characteristics and the histrionics all run parallel to it's predecessors and One Two Three really has nothing new to offer. But it makes you laugh (in parts) and is one of those 'stolen diamond-bunch of losers after it' sort of comedy (Victoria No. 203 was the last one).  Plot Laxmi Narayan 1 (Tusshar) is a wannabe Don who is given the task of murdering his boss's rival in Pondicherry, over a stolen diamond conflict. Laxmi Narayan 2 is geeky, uncertain employee (Suniel Shetty) who is given the task of buying a vintage car for his boss in Pondicherry. The third one (Paresh Rawal) is an undergarment seller who sells on the road in a van, but comes all the way to Pondicherry to check out a designer's work. They all stay at the same hotel and the information they are sent gets mixed up and the confusion begins. Jiya (Esha) is a lingerie designer who 1 thinks he has to murder, but falls in love with. 2 walks into the realm of the rival don. 3 is shown the vintage car by Laila (Sameera Reddy) but he wants her to show him the lingerie. A young couple have the diamond (Tanisha-Upen), and they work for Laila.Story, Screenplay and Direction Debutant Ashwani Dhir has taken a lot of tricks from the books of Priyadarshan, Dhawan and others who specialize in comedies such as this one. The ingenuity is therefore lost. From someone who made a serial like Office Office, which is a completely different genre of comedy, it comes as a surprise. The minuses of the movie: Most of the actors ham throughout, the basic plot is a yawn, the music is does nothing for the movie and some of the gags have been seen before quite a lot. On the plus side, some of the lines do make you laugh, Mukesh Tiwari addressed as 'Papa' with one of his assistants dragging the word with a nasal tinge tends to grow on you as the movie progresses and even the irritating parts seem funny after a while. Of course, this ends too soon with a climax that drags. Tusshar-Esha track makes you squirm in your seat with all the badly written lines and the hamming that they do. The rest of the tracks really are no better, with Upen-Tanisha giving a new sense to the word 'ham' and Sameera doing no better. Even their makeup and costumes are garish. No one acted in Race, but at least they looked good. Suniel Shetty's 'right ya left?' gets to you after a point, but initially it is amusing. Here is another actor who improved with time and does a good job in roles that suit him. Then there's the Don who speaks in limericks, which are definitely funny.  Performances Paresh Rawal makes you laugh as does Suniel Shetty in some of the scenes. Tusshar and Esha along with the other star kid, Tanisha, need acting classes. The model, Upen Patel, is a good model. Not an actor though. Sameera Reddy carries on the Race act of looking dumb, while Neetu Chandra as a Punjabi cop in Pondi is passable.Song and Dance Mediocre and forgettable, courtesy Raghav Sanchar. Last Word For those who like 'comedies only' and are amused easily, this will surely put a smile on their face. For those looking for a good movie, or some novelty in comedy will be disappointed. A tolerable comedy with some funny scenes, but mostly repeated gags. |