Garam Masala (2006): Truly a 'masala' film

Good comedy films are the sure-shot guarentee of success at the box-office. The first truly entertaining masala (spicy) film I saw was Andaz Apna-Apna (I was in 1st grade then!) and that film had entertained me so much whilst making me a fan of humor films. And one of these masala humor films is Garam Masala (which means 'hot spice', a word used to denote the women in the film!).

The film starred Akshay Kumar, John Abrahim and Paresh Rawal in the lead. Mac and Sam (Akshay and John respectively) are two scoundrel photographers, who take pictures for the magazine Garam Masala. Both of them do not know photography, but still they manage to take some fine photographs.

Then Sam steals a photograph of some great photographer and presents it to his company's boss. The company's boss declares Sam as the boss of Mac. The company sends him to a trip to America.

Meanwhile, Mac engages with three girls. He gets a home to live in and some cars from his friend Babban (Rajpal Yadav). He arranges a servant, Mambo (Paresh Rawal), to help him in the setting he has made with the three girls.

When Sam returns to India after the trip, he goes to Mac's house and tries to break up his settings. But he fails many a time.

Now it's between Mac and Sam, they fight with each-other; they want to kill each-other; they try to manage their settings with the girls. But because they are air-hostesses, their flight schedules keep changing, so it's very difficult both for Mac and Sam to manage their setting. What follows is a dish full of spices and fun!

On the music: The soundtrack to the film is brilliant! My favorate song is Falak Dekhoon by Sonu Niigaam. Of course, I'd like the song as a Sonu fan! The title song by Adnan Sami is good too, with Ada being another great number. Here's a video of Sonu singing Falak Dekhoon live!

Movie Rating: 3.5/5 (Very Good!)

Music Rating: 3.8/5 (Excellent)

Here is the most enjoyable part of the movie:

Welcome: Stop being only commercial, Akshay!

Welcome (2007) is the first Akshay Kumar movie I saw (yeah, really)! And after watching it, I watched some other movies of Akshay like Namastey London and Singh Is Kinng. But the thing is he just selects commercial movies to be done. He never selects a better or different scrypt. That's why I will call him 'commercial hero' from now on!

The movie starrs Feroz Khan, Nana Pathekar, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Paresh Rawal and Mallika Sherawat. It's a story of a gangster who has a beatiful sister, Sanjana. The Dons of the gangster are Uday Shetty and Majnu. Rajiv (the 'commercial hero') falls in love with Sanjana but Rajiv's family doesn't want to marry Rajiv in a gangster's family. At this, both Rajiv and Sanjana become sad.

Then Rajiv promises to change both Uday Shetty and Majnu. Uday had love for films, and he always wanted to act in some film. Rajiv makes a fake film-set and starts shooting there. Rajiv wanted to keep Uday busy in films so that he don't get time for murders. But Majnu used to interupt between the shooting and took Uday back to his old business. So then Rajiv sends a beautiful lady, Ishika (Mallika Sherawat) to Majnu and Majnu becomes busy with her.

At the end, when both the bhais are changed, Rajiv and Sanjana marry and live a happy life!

Well, it's, of course, not a great story. And the commercial hero never did a serious film after this one. I wish Akshay chooses better films; he's always involved in such stories.

Overall, the movie is good and promises entertainment at least for one-watch. But having watched it five times, I now find nothing extra-ordinary stuff in this movie. The music is a way better than the movies itself. Ek Ucha Lamba Kad, Tera Sarafa and Hoonth Rasiley are great songs which have been ignored these days.

Movie Rating - 3.3/5 (Very Good). Here's a good comedy masala scene:

Music Rating - 4/5 (Excellent).

Here's a picture from the sets: