Great Grand Masti Movie Review: Bollywood Movies

Horror-Comedy. That is what Great Grand Masti is positioned as. Oh, yes, not just comedy, an Adult-Comedy movie. I am thinking I will be greeted to full theaters today. What remains to be seen is has the Sultan fever mellowed and are the audiences ready for the next movie from Bollywood. Comparison with Sultan is inevitable –  although there is no comparison really – other than that it is releasing just a week later.

There’s a new controversy taking wings. Shiney Ahuja has filed a complaint against the movie makers for naming the maid as Shiney. Now, is the controversy a bit too late? Maybe they forgot this was supposed to happen a week earlier – but the movie leak made them advance the release date. Let us see if it can give the movie a boost in this short time. Should make all the Shiney haters go to the theaters for this one?

Great Grand Masti (2016)

Director: Indra Kumar
cast: Urvashi Rautela, Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi

Indra Kumar has given us some good movies before. After their last adventure at the college reunion, Amar, Meet, and Prem are now in for a new spooky adventure where they not only battle the Supernatural, but also have to keep control over their basal instincts.

Although the movie has the same advantage as Sultan – the only release in the week – I doubt it has the same fan base. The movie has all the elements to make it popular: cliched Viagra jokes, masked abuses that will perhaps excite 15 year olds, and silly, childish behavior. The only problem is the actors are a bit old and the jokes are bit too young. Indian Express summarizes my thoughts quite well when it lists all the reasons to watch Great Grand Masti.

But I am determined to watch this one with an intent to laugh at the silliest joke. Let’s see if this Comedy can make the eager-o-laugh audience laugh. And more importantly, see if there are more funny moments than the four that we have in the trailer.

Great Grand Masti Movie Review

The movie, as expected, is a total bust. At best, it can make a 12-14 year old laugh at the childish humor. But unfortunately that is not the target age group of the movie. There are a few laughs here and there apart from the scenes in the trailer, but they are lost in the incessant bombardment of double-meaning and suggestive dialogues that become too much and too lame. The first hour of the movie is spent in establishing the status of three sex-starved, married friends, who can't think of anything else. The main twist comes in the form of a nympho ghost - a perfect match for these three, you would think. The problem is not that she is a ghost, but the the man who spends a night with her will then die! It cannot really get ridiculous than this. The flashes of humor come in the form of allusion to Ramsey brothers and a couple of others. For an 'Adult-Comedy' the movie avoids all the taboo words and cuss words, which make it a good fit for teenagers.  Bollywood's love for fair skin is evident in all the foreign dancers, and I can also see some feminist backlash coming on the whole Karva Chauth thing. Shreyas Talpade's cameo is perhaps the only saving grace in a movie where the film makers need to explain the audience what gigolo means. A total waste of time, unless you are an underage kid who is tickled by the idea of using cuss words or use 'Masti' as code word for sex. Oh, Yes, and the director won't let you forget the names of all the movies in the franchise as he goes on mentioning them multiple times throughout the movie. Perhaps the only socially relevant message that the movie makes is "Masti ka Maza Zabardasti me nahi" - you know what Masti means, don't you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZojV0FC-KdI