Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Laugh if you can...

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fees, ~10,000 for incidental­s and stationery, and anywhere between ~30,000 and ~3 lakh for the tuition fee. infanticid­e angles mixed in. It’s almost half an hour before Talpade shows us the actual posters, but still, all is going well.

The gags are fun, even if they are silly.

A blind old woman who sleeps with a revolver under her pillow touches Sunny Deol’s face and says, “Dharmendra?’ Bobby replies, “Nahin, unka beta.”

Talpade shoots him a quizzical look; his expression says, ‘What else could I do?’ It’s that kind of funny, but it works. Until it doesn’t.

The jokes get more and more embedded in the Deol family fan club. There are references to earlier films, borders, you get the gist.

Worse still, the same jokes are retold five different times before they dig up a new one. And the humour gets increasing­ly crass.

One character stands out even in this devolving mess. Ashwini Kalsekar (Munni, from Golmaal) displays superb comic timing in her role as a disinteres­ted doctor. She has been underrated and will hopefully shine from here on.

One thing that doesn’t shine is the film’s runtime. At 131 minutes, you have to be in a really good mood to enjoy Poster Boys. from background­s similar to the fliers’ representa­tives in the internal panel will be its members. From the industry side, the representa­tive will be an airline officer no junior than a vicepresid­ent level airline official.

Civil aviation secretary RN Choubey said it will not be mandatory for other airlines to ban the same passenger. Action can only be taken if something happens inside the plane .

 ?? REUTERS PHOTO ?? A still from the movie.
REUTERS PHOTO A still from the movie.
 ??  ?? Arjun Rampal plays the lead role of Arun Gawli in Daddy.
Arjun Rampal plays the lead role of Arun Gawli in Daddy.

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