Tees Maar Khan

Film: Tees Maar Khan

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Akshaye Khanna, Katrina Kaif

Direction: Fara Khan

Rating: 3.5/5

At the outset, it is important to note that Farah Khan's films do not cater to the patrons of thought-provoking, or even moderately sensible, cinema. They never have, and they never will. So if a storyless, mindless spoof on the cliches of Hindi cinema is up your alley, then so is Tees Maar Khan.

Tabrez Mirza Khan (Akshay Kumar) is a con artist internationally infamous for many a heist. At the behest of a tackily funny Siamese twin couple, the Johari brothers (played by Raghu and Rajiv), he decides to pull off a train loot in a village called Dhulia by posing as a filmmaker on the Great Indian Revolution. He poses as Manoj Day Ramalan, the fairer brother of the critically acclaimed Hollywood director, and ropes in the Oscar-hungry Atish Kapoor (Akshaye Khanna) to play the lead in this con work of a film shoot. The rest of the story is as bizarre as it can get, but funny nonetheless, in very typical Farah Khan fashion.

Critics have ripped this film apart, and so has a good section of the audience that tom-toms around about their inclination towards intellectual cinema. But then, Farah Khan makes no bones about the fact that she caters to the genre of spoofs - nothing brighter. Take it or leave it.

And she does just that - look out for the very witty, very corny digs at Harman Baweja, Anil Kapoor and the subtle reference to SRK's bony six pack story. Tees Maar Khan is what brings Akshay Kumar back to what he is best at - slapstick humour. Akshaye Khanna manages to make you laugh after all, with his urge to ham in everything he does before the camera. And Katrina, well, the Sheila song had long since conveyed what she was meant to do in the film.

And yes, those who scoff at the fact that the film is a mere spoof through its entire length, pray tell me what was Scary Movie, a Hollywood film that we all claim to be outstandingly hilarious, all about?