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Producer: Harmesh Malhotra Director: Harmesh Malhotra Cast: Govinda, Raveena Tandon Music: Anand Milind Lyrics: Sameer
The title definitely says it all. When you have a title of a Govinda movie that sounds like one of his crass song delivered in partnership with buddy David, it surely says what to expect.
When veteran filmmaker Harmesh Malhotra's who had made better movies in the past signed Govinda for the movie, he did not know what he was getting into, but days before the release of the film he finally spiulled the beans on the way he was harrased by Govinda and the result is now there out for everybody to see. However it is again Govinda and Kader Khan who saves the otherwise non existent film.
Malhotra who had a freak comic success with Dulhe Raja in Bihar some years ago and he tried to repeat the same but has failed in his effort.
So what is the story… a big time swindler, Bhangari (Kader Khan), owns a shop Honesty Store, which claims to buy and sell stolen goods sincerely. Bhangari wants his daughter Kiran (Raveena Tandon) to marry a top goon who has thousand cases pending to his name and whose home is the Central Jail. That is Shakti dada (Shakti Kapoor). Cut to Raj (Govinda), a London-returned business tycoon. Raj bumps into Kiran at a common friend's engagement and the predictable happens.
Then begin the errors. Raj mistakes Kiran to be some girl his parents fixed him up with. Kiran mistakes Raj for Shakti dada. Shakti confuses Kiran with some other girl and ends up with a swollen eye. On Bhangari's wife's insistence, he packs her and Kiran off to Singapore so his in-laws can meet Shakti. So the fake Shakti miraculously comes to know about this development and is spotted serenading Kiran in the lush green gardens. While the original poor Shakti escapes prison to loiter on the streets of Singapore (read Malaysia) where he bangs into Bhangari's old enemies --- Thompson (Avtaar Gill) and Jerry (Rana Jung Bahadur). The idiotic bunch beat Shakti into a black and blue pulp.
Back in India, the Raj, Kiran, Shakti identity crisis is resolved. However, Bhandari is still fixated with the idea of having a criminal for a son-in-law. Enter Subramanium (Johnny Lever). Kiran hires Subramanium to train Raj into a fake gangster. A couple of sidesplitting episodes later, Raj transforms into Bombila bhai. Thereafter begin a series of hilarious face-offs between Bombila bhai and Bhangari.
Filmmaker Harmesh Malhotra's Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare is a follow-up to the hit comedy, Dulhe Raja with the same cast. It goes without saying that the former was definitely a better bet with its funnier gags and a catchy soundtrack.
Musically, Anand-Milind's horrendous songs make us squeeze our ears and shut our eyes whenever the duo gets into action to Ganesh Acharya's hip-rotating binges.
Govinda is in his elements through the movie. With him on screen, you know that this was one man made for comedy and wonder why he wasted 10 years of his life and a record of 100 movies during the period trying to be the poor man’s Mithun when he could very well have introduced the Govinda loved by one and all.
However the star of this movie is not Govinda but Kader Khan. For you have Kader Khan taking in more frames than Govinda with his double role. However, the two Kader Khans are never shown together. One exits when the other enters. In this way Harmesh Malhotra saves money on special effects.
A woman has no place in this area of antiquated antics. So what's Raveena Tandon doing in this feverish farce? Precious little, however the hip rotating dances would not be complete without her would they?.But even there she's distinctly out of sorts matching steps with her co-star as they prance in France. Or is it Switzerland - who cares? Most of the time Raveena just giggles uncomfortably in the background probably wondering what the hell she's doing here or jiggles her hips to music that you would not want to hear.
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