Brain Game

Enough has been written about how Sagar Bellary has copied the French movie- Le Diner de cons (whatever that means!) frame by frame to come up with this one, but aren't Priyadarshan, Mahesh Bhatt or Sanjay F Gupta doing the same thing? And when you are being provided with wholesome entertainment by a bunch of actors who know exactly what they are doing, why should you be complaining?

So you completely agree with Ranjeet (Rajat Kapoor, as brilliant as ever) when he tells his singer- wife Sheetal (Saarika, getting better with time) that the idea behind dining every Friday with a fool is to get some good entertainment towards the weekend, you understand the weird hobbies that high networth individuals with a lot of disposable income would have and feel completely fine with it. It is only when the fool in question makes an entry that you understand things are not going to be easy for Ranjeet. For Bharat Bhushan is no ordinary soul- he wants to get into everything and solve every issue in Ranjeet's life. He leaves no stone unturned to tell the world how good a singer he is. He carries his silly scrapbook in a suitcase that has a number lock as if it is the next big thing after the Kohinoor diamond and he makes life hell for Ranjeet during the brief encounter that they have.

Bheja Fry is not as much about story, as it is about characters and incidents and it helps to have actors like Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shoerey and Rajat Kapoor on board- they literally bring the house down with their antics though the scenes that play out before you are extremely serious! The dialogues are brief, crisp and to the point and the acting is of avant garde quality. Watch out for the faces that Ranvir Shorey makes or the helplessness that Rajat Kapoor portrays. Things get hilarious when Bharat mistakes Ranjeet's wife for his girlfriend and vice- versa. Even Milind Soman puts up a credible performance, unarguably the best in his more than a decade long career.

Bheja Fry has been made on a shoe string budget- all the characters wear the same clothes throughout the movie and the entire movie plays out in the same ambience- Ranjeet's drawing room and the best thing is that you dont mind at all. When you have a tight script, fantastic actors and some great dialogues, nothing else really matters- and this is what Sagar Bellary proves unquestionably! At a running time of a little more than 90 minutes, Bheja Fry is short and sweet and leaves the audience asking for more- that for me is what a successful venture is all about!!!