By IndiaFM News Bureau, March 26, 2004 - 14:58 IST
Indra Kumar who started off as a producer with Ashok Thakeria for films like Mohobbat and Kasam and subsequently turned an individual director delivering super hits like Dil (1990), Beta (1992), Raja (1995) and other films, have come up with their 8th co-production - Masti. The film is a comedy of errors, like the first half of most Indra Kumar films (Dil, Raja, Ishq and Mann) with a little moral at the end.
Earlier titled 'Khujli' (the idea was dropped later), Masti is loosely inspired from a Hollywood comedy "The Seven-Year Itch", the film talks about the transformation most studs go through post-marriage, when they reflect on their glory days. The story revolves round three young married couples
Character Sketch
Vivek Oberoi plays Meet
Meet (meaning lover in Hindi) is a Casanova character whose take on marriage is “Man is incomplete till he gets married…after that he is finished”
Amrita Rao plays Aanchal
Aanchal plays the nagging wife of Meet whose world centers around her husband. She can't think beyond Meet.
Aftab Shivdasani plays Prem
A sexually frustrated banker Prem suggests, “Everyone should get married. After all, happiness is NOT the only thing in life”
Tara Sharma plays Geetha
Geetha is the zealously religious pativratha patni of Prem. She would rather press his feet than do…'you know what'.
Ritesh Deshmukh plays Amar
A dentist, Amar is a hen-pecked husband alias phattu. For him the full form of WIFE is - Without Information Fighting Everyday.”
Genelia D'Souza plays Bindiya
Bindiya is the dominating wife of Amar. She along with her mother (Archana Puran Singh) controls all the strings of Amar.
Ajay Devgan plays Inspector Sikander
Sikander is the grim-faced serious cop. He has the best of the lines in the film.
Lara Dutta
She's the surprise package who provides a twist in the tale. The main plot-mover!
Storyline
Meet, Amar & Prem! Three unique species from planet Mars! Three friends who happily enter the Heaven of marriage, bliss and ecstasy….But soon enough they discover the Hell behind the heaven, the bickering behind the bliss and the agony behind the ecstasy. After all, is it not said that in marriage the first chapter is poetry and the rest is all prose?
The three friends now swear that “Anyone who believes in the institution of Marriage should be sent to a Mental Institute.” Frustrated with their marital experience, the trio gear up to do some Masti and decide that the only way to spice up their lives is to seek to excitement outside home. To try to have as many affairs as possible. And then to meet and exchange notes.
Full of glee, they begin their wacky and hilarious adventure where they search for forbidden fun. But before they can taste the delicious fruit of bigamy, their adventure takes on a different turn and there comes a big twist in their sinful plan. A twist that brings them face-to-face with Sikader… A twist that leaves them dumbfounded and very very scared.
Little do they know they are a part of a mysterious plot? And to top it, they have to combat the danger of being exposed in front of their unsuspecting wives. And what can be worse than that?
Meet, Amar and Prem are thus on the run against the strong forces that are scheming against them. Now none of them could ever dare to say, “What is Life without a little Masti?”
More on the film
The film was completed in a period of 80 days flat and recorded in sync-sound. All the actors went through rehearsal workshop before the shooting of the film.
The film also stars Satish Shah, Archana Puran Singh, Suresh Menon, Divya Palat, Rakhi Sawant and Shahbaz Khan. Anand Raaj Anand has composed tunes on lyrics penned by Sameer while choreographer Ganesh Acharya has set the mega starcast in the swinging mode. The story screenplay and dialogues are penned by Milaap and Tusshar.
Release
The film will release on April 9, 2004
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