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Warner Bros production Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? is based on Sharad Joshi’s novel Tum Kab Jaoge Atithi. While going to watch this film, do remember that it is not a madhouse comedy like Priyadarshan’s or David Dhawan’s. It takes you there slowly and subtly, bringing home the message.

Puneet (Ajay Devgan) is a scriptwriter who’s landed a big film project. He has an interior designer wife, Munmun (Konkona Sen Sharma) and a little son.

Life is pretty much routine for them until a relative arrives one day from Gorakhpur, calling himself Chachaji (Paresh Rawal). While friends and neighbours are irritated with guests at home, Puneet and Munmun actually welcome their new arrival.

But right from the moment he enters the building complex, Chachaji causes havoc with his old-fashioned and some very weird and annoying ways. Soon, Puneet and Munmun start looking for ways to get rid of him, but to no avail. This old worldly and simple uncle just doesn’t seem to get the hint.

The first half of the film goes in establishing all this, and does a pretty good job of it. There are twists and turns in the second half, all tackled with the help of comic situations.

What scores is that the film does not have slapstick or in-your-face comedy. It is just about loving and accepting your guest, the way he or she is – taking the good things from them and ignoring the bad. However, the film does not say whether one should accept and endure guests who are not relatives of the hosts. That could be a different story altogether

Verdict: All in all, Atithi… is a family film, and seems like a best bet this week to watch with one’s family, as compared to the other films.

Rating: Good.

Written by Vishal Bharadwaj, Chaubey and Sabrina Dhawan, Ishqiya gives us a love
triangle unlike any we’ve seen before.

Two petty thieves, uncle Khalujan, played by Naseeruddin Shan and his nephew Babban, played by Arshad Warsi, are on the run after double-crossing their boss. When all other avenues for shelter dry up, they land up at the house of a friend only to be told that he is dead. His widow Krishna, played by Vidya Balan, takes them in. What follows is an incredibly tangled tale of love and longing, guns and deceit.

You know you are in for a roller coaster ride the minute the film starts. The standard disclaimer that the film and its characters are fictional informs us that characters kafi hadh tak imaginary hain.

It will take you several minutes to adjust to the terrain and the language but Ishqiya seeps in like slow intoxication.

Chaubey keeps the pacing brisk and the humor, crisp. He skillfully shifts notes going from suspense to laughter in a blink. And the dialogue, by Vishal, is pitch perfect.

Krishna, who is described as a desi tamancha and a sutli bomb, plays the men like an organ.

Both uncle and nephew fall inexorably in love with her. Khalujan conducts an old-world romance, listening to her sing and in a lovely scene, even peeling garlic in her kitchen. Babban is aggressively sexual but the poetry of their love is underlined with danger. You are always aware that nothing is quite what it seems.

Ishqiya would have faltered if the performances had not matched the writing but all three leads are absolutely terrific.
A must see movie