Fool 'N' Final Runtime: 144min 8sec - Directed by: Ahmad Khan Screenplay by: Umesh Shukla & Abbas Hirapurwala |
Plot Outline:
A slick diamond robbery takes place in India. The robber is none other than Rocky (Chunky Pandey) whos the nephew of Chowksi (Gulshan Grover), a Don based in London. Chowksi tells Rocky to sell the diamond to his brother Lalwani (Asrani) in Dubai. Lalwani is a dealer of smuggled gems and jewellery. But he warns Rocky to stay away from guns and gambling, which is his weakness, to ensure nothing goes wrong.
Already sounding overly familiar? Yes, that's right, with a huge cast attached & even stealing the tagline, Fool 'N' Final is a Desi version of Snatch.
Overall Impressions:
Well firstly does it stand up to Snatch? Not at all. Snatch hold up as one of my favourite films of all time & by comparison it's a joke. That said, I really think that is exactly what was intended. The whole film to be a big joke. It stands up to all the evolving hindi films today and reminds us of what used to be totally acceptable. It's parodying our own cinema. That's the way I interpreted it anyway. If this wasn't the intention, then 'Oh Dear'.
The film has a host of actors, but the ones who stand out are Johny Lever, Shahid Kapoor and Paresh Rawal. The comic timing between them keeps the film flowing, in fact I would say when non of them are on screen, the pace drops. Ayesha Takia pairs well with Shahid, but doesn't have much to do really, Sameera Reddy has even less to do.
Sunny Deol is playing his usual character whereby his one mukka (punch) will cause more damage than to be hit by a car & this will be liked by the main-stream Deol fans. The rest of the cast remain mere gap fillers and there are a lot of gaps to fill.
As a comical take on Snatch with over-the-top action and crazy additions that all defy logic, it holds up as mildly entertaining but nothing more.
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