Spoilers ahead…
Two Ranveer Singhs, two Varun Sharmas, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez, and a riot of comic-book colours – but where’s the effort?
The term “lowbrow comedy” is used to describe a kind of broad, farce-like, slapstick-filled effort to make you laugh – but the term is a little offensive. All of us like to laugh, whether the source of the laughter is lowbrow or highbrow. I forget the name of the film now, but one of the one-liners that I laughed at very loudly in the theatre was when an actor in a thick blanket said his name was “Kambal Haasan”. It takes a special kind of crackpot brain to come up with inspired nonsense like that, and at least in theory, Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus has a lot of inspired nonsense. Sanjay Mishra is in terrific form as a high-society man who speaks Hindi with a strange English accent. He gets this line: “Samundar mein susu karne se tsunami nahin hota.” This happens very early in the film, and I lit up. As I said, it takes a special kind of crackpot brain to come up with inspired nonsense like that.
You can read the rest of the review here:
https://www.galatta.com/hindi/movie/review/cirkus/
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Sri Prabhuram
December 23, 2022
Directors like Rohit Shetty give “commercial/masala” films a bad reputation among modern filmmakers today. Not that there aren’t GOOD masala films, but I feel that the lack of effort happens simply because the stars are yes-men.
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kaizokukeshav
December 24, 2022
Hindi cinema has a long way to master the art of ‘comic relief’. There are handful of artists who are dedicated to comedy like Rajpal Yadav, Johnny Lever. I thought Sanjay Mishra and Vinay Pathak could bring a breath of fresh air with some really good comedy movies (khosla ka ghosla, bheja fry, phas gaye re Obama) in early 2010s but the momentum was totally put down with more serious and political narratives all over like Peepli Live, Oh My God etc. The comedian tradition still continues in the South, the Vadivelus and Brahmanandams still inspire a bunch of next generation artists.
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Rocky
December 28, 2022
Watched Cirkus yesterday.
Frankly , I did not mind it . The one liners were good and Sanjay Mishra was excellent . The Golmaal references , the old songs worked big time for me.
IMO what did not work for the movie- 1. Lack of emotional scenes/ connect , 2. Too Loud ,3. S Jadhav having more screen time than stalwarts like Tiku and Ashwani Kaleskar and dinally 4. Varun Sharma was wasted .
Also, did anyone else notice that the serious Ranveer Singh’s voice changed in the climax . I mean throughout the movie they both had same voice but towards the end his voice became deeper .
P.S. – After watching the loudness of Cirkus, One starts appreciating classic like Angoor more, the effortless comedy by Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Varma was too good.
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Rocky
December 29, 2022
BTW, Pooja has starred in three disasters in a row now-Radhe Syham , Aacharya and Cirkus.
Ranveer has three flops in a row – 83, Jayesh Bhai and Cirkus.
Deepika had a song/ special appearances in Raabta, Zero, DMD, 83 and now in Cirkus.
Kuch toh hai yeh Raabta !!
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Rohit Sathish Nair
December 29, 2022
You could add Beast too in Miss Hegde’s list
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Rocky
December 30, 2022
Wow, Beast as well…. Not a good sign for her. She is so pretty and smoking hot though, unlike Ms. Deepika.
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Jai
January 6, 2023
Found this absolutely atrocious. I’ve had a root canal that pained me less than this migraine inducing monstrosity.
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