It is Great Grand Masti week. As Friday approaches and you are making your movie plans, we give you five reasons for watching this week’s release, Great Grand Masti. Take our reasons with a pinch of salt, or a bucketload.
The film stars Vivek Oberoi, Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani and Urvashi Rautela. Great enough star cast for you?
1. The makers of Great Grand Masti are big fans of adjectives. A simple Masti 1, 2 or 3 will just not suffice for them. When their endeavour is something as grand and as great as this adult comedy, it has to come with those superlatives. Would you buy a toothpaste if it is called the greatest, grandest Colgate or if your soap is awe inspiring, mindboggling Lux? Well, the same rule applies to this sex comedy.
2. You should watch Great Grand Masti to keep some actors employed. Take away Masti and Housefull from Riteish Deshmukh and his CV gets real slim. Take away Masti from Aftab Shivdasani and Vivek Oberoi, and you are just being plain cruel.
3. Great Grand Masti also encourages young talent. So many new actresses find work in the franchise because, lets face it, which established actress will do this film.
4. Watch Great Grand Masti to ensure Indian sex comedies stay puerile and cringe-inducing. While comedy is subjective, Great Grand Masti and its ilk are really really sexist, really badly done and really unfunny.
5. You should watch it if you watched Masti and Grand Masti and liked them. For you, my friend, we have only sympathy.
Great Grand Masti movie cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela
Great Grand Masti movie director: Indra Kumar
Those who have been following the escapades of the ‘Masti’ boys will know that they have been stuck in a limbo: between ‘biwis’ who will not put out and other women who are dying to, between pills that stiffen male private parts and receptacles to insert said parts into, between… I could go on, but I can see you cringe.
So did I, in this offensively unfunny, grating thing (nothing ‘great’ about it) which should not be allowed to call itself a film.
The trio has been sending its sex-starved status up for laughs ever since we met them first, in 2004 (Masti). We got more of the same in 2013 (Grand Masti). This time around, even the occasional snigger has dried up completely.
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To spice up the by now wrung-out-to-dry formula of sex-starved husbands and stand-offish wives, the script has added on a female ghost who died a virgin, and who is bent upon making up for the lost time by having at not just one, but all three.
Great Grand Masti has three sexually frustrated men looking out for some ‘masti.’