‘Jhootha Kahin Ka’ is so crazy, it makes you laugh out loud!

If  you ask me what this wild and crazy film is about, I’d be hard pressed to give you a summary. Let’s just say Jhootha Kahin Ka (my title would have been Phir Wohi Dil Liar) is trippy fun if you don’t think too much about the rigorously disembodied outflow of a comedy of errors where one of the young heroes poses as the son-in-law of his best friend’s girlfriend’s family. Shakespearean and Anees Bazmian.

I am still trying to figure out motives and character motivations in this comic subterfuge where director Smeep Kang seems to have the most fun. We just can’t  help joining in. I’ve taken the help of those Bollywood-comedy buffs who wallow in this kind of jumbled identity crisis where everyone talks loudly and at cross purposes  without saying anything  that means anything even remotely coherent. Even they are  nonplussed but tickled blink.

The dialogues are zippy and the wisecracks flow with a free-flowing celerity leaving  no room for quibble let alone questioning.

It must be said that the senior actors score much higher than the youngsters who aren’t bad but no match  to  their peers. Omkar Kapoor and Sunny Singh bring  a roguish charm  to  the proceedings. But their love interests have little room to display any charm if any.

It is Rishi Kapoor who imparts a virile comic energy to his sketchily-written characters. He fumes and flirts his way through a fleet of episodes that range from the comic to  the  bland. Rishi is a hoot flirting with his wheelchair-bound neighbour Manoj Joshi’s coquettish wife Lillete Dubey. It’s  good to see Rishi Kapoor back on screen. He was much missed and  he makes a strong impression in the supremely slapstick  surrounding

Rishi is even better fuming and  ranting at his  brother-in-law,played with a pokerfaced  asininity by Rajesh Verma. Such actors can never let a script down. And when  the ever-dependable Jimmy Sheirgill joins in the confusion midway, it is time for the laughs to get louder. The gags grow more aggressive as Jimmy together with a  sidekick (played by an unknown actor who is absolutely brilliant) whip up a farcical frenzy of  their own.

By the time the over-punctuated climax hurls to a halt Jhootha Kahin ka left me breathless and  giggly.  Silly can be  fun. Very silly can be even more fun. Provided you  don’t think too much,