Phir Hera Pheri
Phir Hera Pheri
| 09 June 2006 (USA)
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Babu Rao, Raju and Shyam, are living happily after having risen from rags to riches. Still, money brings the joy of riches and with it the greed to make more money - and so, with a don as an unknowing investor, Raju initiates a new game.

Reviews
Donel Sinha

The favourite comic trio of every Bollywood movie lover is back. They have done a splendid job again. Raju is more notorious, Shyam is a little foolish but Babu Bhaiyya has lost his mind completely!! It's an excellent movie but many say that it's not as good as the prequel but I would like to say that you definitely laughed more while watching this movie. Neeraj Vora is a good director. Nice dialogue delivery. The scenes repeated from the prequel are equally funny. This movie is in no way behind its prequel. This movie will surely remain a fan-favourite like its predecessor. Watch it again and again but it'll always make you laugh.

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Krazzy4

Thumps Up- Akshay and Paresh 's chemistry and performance, decent music, directions, shared Susana, johny lever and rajpal were funny in some parts,dialogs, climax was mad funny, and first was fast then second half went slow....Thumps down: bi pasha and rim mi sen were wasted, other supporting actors were also wasted.....overall super duper mega hit because of Akshay Kumar, parish's performance, dialogs and directions by niraj Vera......better then first 1 but niraj could've edit sum scene like circus.....lot of mess, twists, troubles and actors which made the film impossible to possible......film can be seen 100 times.....

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xpics

A sequel has its upsides and flipsides. The upside is that it can redeem on the recall value of the prequel and attract audiences to the theatres. The flipside however is that it has to meet the gigantic expectations of the prequel to satisfy the audiences sitting in the theatres. Most sequels turn a victim of this flipside. Phir Hera Pheri is no exception. When judged on its own merit, Phir Hera Pheri is a fairly entertaining comedy flick. But comparisons with the prequel, though unfair, are inevitable and that's where the film might disappoint to an extent. The writer of the prequel, Neeraj Vora writes and directs this sequel. Vora manages to pull of the film from where it ended in the first part and also maintains connectivity between the two films. And since the characters were already established in the first part, he wastes no time here to go ahead with the storyline. Raju (Akshay Kumar), Shyam (Suniel Shetty) and Baburao (Paresh Rawal) who earn big bucks at the end of the first part; live a lavish life at the start of the second episode. But with money comes greed for more money. So in the greed to double their money, they borrow more money from underworld and invest it in a chit fund on the behest of Anuradha (Bipasha Basu). But the company turns out to be bogus and thereby they lose all their assets coming back to square one. From here on starts their attempt in paying back loans taken from the underworld. The movie runs on jet speed pace and you hardly get time to breathe, gasp, feel, absorb, react or relate. With every alternate scene a new gang is introduced and by the interval point you have around a dozen mobsters linked to each other. The film is clustered with so many characters that you lose count after a point of time. While Neeraj Vora scores as a writer; to an extent, he fails as a director. On the writing part, despite so many characters to handle, he etches an interesting screenplay connecting all of them. Obviously you are not expected to think logically in today's comedies. Off lately, slapstick has turned out to be an easy alternative to tongue-in-cheek humor. So you don't have to exercise your brains cells when a circus gorilla (a palpable human in a monkey mask) is in pursuit of Johny Lever in the climax, as far as the duo makes you laugh. Or for that matter, don't think twice when the mastermind of first part, Akshay Kumar falls for a silly trap of doubling money in the second. But then these minuscule loopholes can be overlooked.What cannot be overlooked are the over-the-top loud performances. There's where Vora's directorial skills come into question in extracting performances from the cast. While none of the actors are bad, they are unnecessarily boisterous at times. Vora also ends up sketching caricature characters of a stammering gangster duo (played by Sharat Saxena and Ravi Kissen) to evoke humor. The humor is more formulated. While Vora overuses Paresh Rawal, he overlooks Suniel Shetty. Paresh Rawal gets the maximum gags and is ably supported by Akshay Kumar who compliments Rawal for a perfect comic chemistry. While showcasing the dumbness of his character Baburao, Paresh Rawal at times stretches the jokes too far and goes overboard. Akshay Kumar has a spontaneous comic timing, but off late with this similar kind of roles, he is getting typecast. However he's far better tickling the funny bone than indulging in emotional inanities like Humko Deewana Kar Gaye. Phir Hera Pheri essentially tried to use the original Hera Pheri pairing of Akshay-Suniel-Paresh as its USP. But post Hera Pheri; there have been so many films with the trio combination like Awara Pagal Deewana, Aan: Men at Work and Deewane Hue Pagal that there's hardly any novelty or a recreated charm effect when they come together here. One aspect where the film is better than its prequel is that unlike Hera Pheri where there were half a dozen redundant forced songs and item numbers, in Phir Hera Pheri the songs don't intrude in proceedings and are kept at their minimal best runtime. Phir Hera Pheri does induce plenty of laughter. But you do feel that with a little more fine-tuning, it could have been even more hilarious. The extended climax is aptly set in a circus that brings the entire clown-cum-caricature cast together. The movie however ends quite abruptly, keeping enough scope for a sequel to continue the series. We just hope that the next episode gets better.

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ssst419

I saw Hera Pheri a few years back and laughed a lot. Script was witty, direction was great, acting ( Paresh Rawal's) was excellent( i just hope it wasn't a copy of some foreign movie. I just watched Phir Hera Pheri and felt like bolting out of the theater. There are repetitions of Hera Pheri scenes, disgusting plagiarism from a very well known English movie, uninspired performances and direction trying desperately to be funny.It is disgusting to watch movies produced by a country with second largest population incapable of coming out with an original plot line.Why on earth do we have to steal soundtracks, story lines and concepts from others? Song and dance we have.....and even that is repetitive.Where has art house cinema gone?

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