Crazy Krazy 4

KRAZY 4 WAS in controversy before its release, not because of its content, but the literal music over its music! Ram Sampat (jingle composer) accused the Roshans of plagiarism. However, the buzz in the filmi circles is that how can Sampat accuse Roshans when he himself lifted the opening music piece from Requiem for a Dream for a Tata Safari ad and quite interestingly got an Abby too for his ‘original’ work!

Krazy 4 tells the story of four not so ‘khush’ guys in a mental hospital in Khandala – Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon, Arshad Warsi and Irrfan Khan – each suffers from a mental disorder quite distinct from the other. While Yadav lost it penning a book on freedom struggle, apparently, stuck in a time warp, Menon’s back-story tells the viewers that he was orphaned at an early age and is in the hospital ever since he was four. Warsi suffers from uncontrollable anger and Khan has got a fetish for cleanliness.

Their doctor, Juhi Chawla, wants them to be a part of the ‘normal’ society, and as an exercise, takes them to Mumbai. Once in Mumbai, things sharply take a drastic turn.

Chawla goes to fetch papers from her clinic and is kidnapped by Zakir Hussain. Menon witnesses the crime, but since he has a disorder of speech, he can’t communicate about the kidnapping to the other bunch of Krazy 4.

Why is Chawla kidnapped? Why would a gangster kidnap a mental-doctor? Is the kidnapper really a gangster? Will the Krazy 4 save Chawla from the baddies? All these questions form the narrative and the climax of the film.

The point is the film, though with its fair share of moments, doesn’t have meat enough to sustain viewers for even two hours. The songs could have easily done away with, particularly the Rakhi Sawant song and the car-song with Chawla and the gang.

The few scenes that work are:

The scene where Warsi meets Dia Mirza’s father in the flashback.

The scene where Warsi meets Mirza’s father and fiancé in the present (watch out for the timing of Kenny Desai and Ashwin Mushran, amazing!).

Yadav falling at the feet of an actor attired as Mahatma Gandhi and the actor slapping him on both the cheeks and Yadav quipping, “Baapu aur hinsaa?”

Of the cast, the best act comes from Yadav and Warsi. Khan is fine, but Menon is wasted, a part reason could be that he has no dialogues. Chawla and Mirza hardly have a role to take note. Rajat Kapoor, cast as Chawla’s husband, is fit for the part.

Director, Jaideep Sen, has handled a couple of sequences well; however, climax seems to be a bit too slack.

The break-free song has two versions: shot on Shahrukh Khan and on Hrithik Roshan and no points for guessing it’s Roshan’s act that gets the thunderous applause. A girl of five (may be six!) gleefully gave the byte to electronic media on being asked, “Who is the kraziest of the four?”

“Roshan,” pat came the reply. The film at the best is an average fare for the audiences.

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HC restrains Roshan from using controversial songs in 'Krazzy 4'

The bombay High Court today restrained film producer Rakesh Roshan from using the two controversial songs of his film ''Krazzy 4'' that allegedly contain music composed by Ram Sampath, who had filed a Rs 2 crore suit for copyright infringement.

According to the court order, the songs, featuring actors Hrithik Roshan and Shahrrukh Khan, cannot be used when the film is screened in theatres tomorrow.

Justice D G Karnik while admitting the civil suit, allowed the release of the film tomorrow.

Sampath has dragged Rakesh Roshan, his brother and music director Rajesh Roshan, and company - 'Film Kraft', Super Cassettes, Sony Ericsson and Saatchi and Saatchi to court for alleged infringement of copyright of his music.

According to a notice sent to Rakesh Roshan and Rajesh Roshan, Sampath said he had created 60 seconds of music ''The Thump'' for a mobile company's television advertisement and the same had been used in four tracks in ''Krazzy 4'', including the title song. Sampath, who has received two Cannes Lion awards and an Abby Award, has not been given any credit for the track whereas Rajesh Roshan has been given credit for the same.

In the suit, he had urged the court to give an injunction against 'Roshans' from using the track in the film and was seeking Rs 2 crore as damages from them.

However, Rajesh Roshan had, earlier, claimed that the music was an original creation. The court heard the music of the advertisement and the film before taking up the matter today

Psychiatrists up in arms against Krazzy 4

Earlier this week eminent psychologists expressed misgivings on television about the psychological accuracy of the mentally unsound characters in Krazzy 4. But Rakesh Roshan is unperturbed. "We had a psychological expert on the sets constantly. We went to rehabilitation centres. We saw how mental patients lived. None of them lived up to the stereotypes of Hindi cinema where mentally unsound people are shown screaming tearing their hair and sitting awkwardly. In reality, such people are hard to tell apart from normal people. We've shown mentally unsound people in Krazzy 4 as behaving normally."



The producer feels the protests are premature. "Let them first watch the film. We're in fact going to set a new trend in the way psychological disorder is shown in our films. People should see the film before deciding whether we're in the wrong." He adds an afterthought, "Whenever my films are around the corner some stupid controversy or the other comes up. It seems people take advantage of our name. Otherwise how do we explain these controversies coming up just days before release? Why go to court if you've a problem, why not come to me and explain your problem….unless your intention is to create trouble."



There's a virtual war of words out there, albeit a friendly one between Rakesh Roshan and his namesake Rakeysh Mehra to come up with a viable script for the next film in Hrithik Roshan's Krissh series.



Says Rakesh Roshan, "Rakeysh Mehra wants to make an installment of Krissh for me. I told him he's most welcome to do a Krissh movie for my company and to work on the script. Krissh doesn't belong to me any more. It's become a brand name like Superman. Anyone is welcome to make a film in the series for me."



Rakeysh who has been busy with Dilli 6 has now started working on the script of Krissh. Explains Roshan, "While Rakeysh is doing his Krissh script, I'm also working on my own script. If his script turns out better, Rakeysh will direct the next Krissh film. If mine turns out better then I will. We may even make both the films one after the other. Or I may direct his script…. He may direct mine."



About composer Ram Sampat claiming Rajesh Roshan's music in Krazzy 4 as his own, Rakesh Roshan says, "I can't comment on this since it's a subjudice matter. All I can say for now is, the release of Krazzy 4 cannot be stalled now under any circumstance. All my prints have already gone to various centres . We're treating Krazzy 4 like any of my directorial ventures. Krazzy 4 isn't as big as Krrish. But it's just as important for us. It isn't a slapstick comedy. There're no double-meaning dialogues. In fact, the characters don't think they're being funny."



Rakesh Roshan's parting shot. "People seem to know more about our lives than we do. They've written that Sussanne is going to have twins. That's news to us."

Hrithik’s Cinthol ad is bigger than Dhoom 2

Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan is roped by Cinthol Company for the new cinthol ad. He is quite happy with his new ad as its vast stunt sequences made the ad even bigger than Dhoom 2.

In that 2 minutes ad, Hrithik has done so many action sequences that he has never done before in his films. He said, "There was more action in the Cinthol ad than in 'Dhoom 2'. It was so much fun. I did kayaking, free-running, bungee jumping, mountain climbing, mountain biking, diving into the ocean from the mountain and rugby - all crammed into one ad."

The ad is full of energy and justifies the tagline ‘24- Hour confidence’ very well. Hrithik is confident about the success of his Cinthol endorsement and feels that this is one of the best ads he has shot so far. He has also endorsed products like Sony Ericcson, Hide and Seek Biscuit, Coca-Cola but finds Cinthol ad to be the best one as it involves lots of stunts and action. The shooting is almost completed and the ad will air very soon. He said that he had accepted the offer because it is about movement and progress.