Bumper Draw
Director: Irshad Khan
Writer: Rashid Khan
Cast: Seema Azmi, Narendra Bedi, Reena Charnya
Strength: Comedy, Acting
Weakness: Bland ending
Runtime: 127 minutes
Rating: 2.5/5
Plot: Bumper Draw traces the lives of a few madcap characters, who hope to get lucky overnight by acquiring a large sum of money in an easy way to pay off their debts and get rid of other problems.
Review: A well-intentioned comedy of errors, fashioned on the lines of Priyadarshan's hits, this film has a central narrator , an ageing Parsi gentleman, Pestonji( Homi Dotiwala) narrating his trysts with avaricious common folk, to a group of TV journalists assembled at his bungalow- which happens to be at the root of all his ills. The parsi gentleman is not cash rich but is in possession of an old Bungalow property coveted by his best friend and the latter's son (Rushad Rana). Fed-up with their shenanigans to claim his property, he runs away and falls neatly into the hands of a trio desperately in need of money. Faroque (Rajpal Yadav) is a cab driver, William Visa wala (Sunbrata Datta) has been swindled and is now desperately looking for a way to pay up those he promised visas to. Gaali Baba (Zakir Hussain) is the soothsayer with an unusual talent of giving the choicest of insults which turn out to be good omens for his clients. Komal Bai, Inspector Parab, Haricharan, Waman Dabbawala, Dr YIM Bedi, Sunderlal, Rafiq are the various other claimants for the loot they expect to get as reward for returning the old Parsi gentleman to his oppressors.
A low-key comedy of errors, the film works in the first half owing to the confusion, chase and running around. Rajpal Yadav doesn't overact for a change and manages to hold the film together. Zakir Hussain as Gali Baba is equally effective.
The film intends to send out a noble message and manages to a certain extent but gets too preachy towards the end. The never-ending moral science lecture in the climax is uncalled for and predictable. A little subtlety would have made a whole lot of difference.
A simple take on surviving in Mumbai and true happiness - you won't mind watching this one unless moral stories really bug you.
Reviewed By Intisab Shahriyar
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