Montu ni Bittu – Pol Ni Bhavai

Jignesh Vasavada

3.75 Stars (.75 for Hemang Shah)

Boy loves girl, who doesn’t love-love him, falls in love with another boy and then triangulated, story brings us back to the same point. Have we seen this before?

 

Full predictable entertainment, thy name is Montu Ni Bittu. A good laugh fest that begins and ends exactly as you know it will. Yet you don’t mind it at the end of 2 hrs 13 mins. You get up feeling good.

Then, you start thinking, evaluating and the fun begins.

Like always, few observations:

1. This is my first ever film which I saw sitting next to the heroine’s parents. Oh my God! It was intense.
2. How many ads precede a movie? Just so many that when we see the cancer ad, there is a collective sigh of relief and happiness, now the movie would start. Arrey even the interval has scores of ads.  
3. Wonder why Vijaygiri Bava had to thank so so so many people (including myself). He has made a good movie, we need to thank him.
4. Which Pol was the movie shot? I want to see women doing the Ketchup Dance as morning exercise, again. Yeah yeah, that is how these women exercise.
5. Sorry, if this sounds eeech…but Mehul Solanki has a mole in the ear! 
6. Now, this film is better than others, the rider wears a helmet and pillion does not. And, none of them wear helmet at night, what re!
7. Funny to see police wala parking their vehicle during night checks opposite a NO PARKING sign board.
8. You know a person is a painter if he has paint all over his body, most of the time.
9. Now, this is perfect Amdavadi opulence. You can spend on a multi-crore bungalow but cannot afford a security system or a watchman.
10. I am just curious, the heroine kept saying, What The…but never got to complete it…wonder how she wanted to complete the same…(Hell, Fafda, Time, Film, Faydo, Help…) Couldn’t get the right answer from people sitting around me.

Now, the movie.

A perfect-for-everything-and-everyone Pol boy Montu (fun-masti-rocking Maulik) is visibly in love with a Pol Girl Bittu (cute-beautiful and natural Aarohi). He does everything to impress her including managing/repairing her home appliances to guiding her 30 plus suitors. But she has Friend-Zoned him (I relate to this feeling). During one such outing they come across an abstract painter Abhinav (handsome, dashing, boring Mehul) and she starts crooning Painter Babu, I Love You.

Now the triangle keeps getting murkier and things keep moving around, guided by Montu’s friend Darri (Magnificent, Lively, Great comic timing, Hemang). Love leads to engagement and then to marriage to Montu’s misery and predictably towards the climax. Keeps you gripped despite you knowing right from the day the trailer was released how it was going to end.

Right then, let us play evaluate, evaluate.

Story: By Ram Mori is the weakest link with glaring gaps. Somethings just don’t add up. How come a breakup happens over something so silly? The characters, though fairly well defined, some of them just do not have relevance or closure. Many such characters like Bittu’s Father, Montu’s Mom, Neighbour Bahu (played by a very talented Kaushambi). The twists and turns are just too casually handled. Dialogues are crisp, fresh and funny. They keep tickling you to laugh out loud.

Performances: Imagine the story where the side comedian takes the accolades in the presence of stalwarts! We waited for Hemang to come and liven up the screen. Very happy to see Maulik carrying the film so well. Aarohi, nothing new, oodles of natural talent despite a casual character sketch. Happy Bhavsar is just perfect bundle of talent. Her portrayal of Mohini Madhuri is just class apart. Mehul Solanki is the weakest link. Poor dialogue delivery, deadpan, yet good looks. We wish he had less-to-none dialogues. Vishal and Bansi (her first movie and she looks so beautiful!!) excel in the presence they get. Pinky Parikh too makes a good mark.

Music & Lyrics: Mehul Surti scores like a legend. My personal favourite is the Aditya Gadhvi voiced Pardesi Mena. Great Beats. The garbo penned by Chirag Tripathi too is

powerful (I have been asked to write this :) no but seriously, it is good). Rang Dariyo by Parth too is hummable. Amdavadi Song by Dilip Dave too is a good ode to the city. 

Cinematography gives it a grand and colourful feel, though we catch lights in some scenes.

All in all, Vijaygiri and Twinkle have made the Janmashtami Weekend rocking with a nice and funny Montu Ni Bittu. 

Go Hopeful (with a capital H), watch it with full family, because even if the heroine wants to swear, What The…Montu stops her and she ends up saying Rani No Hajiro (whatever that means).

Good Going Vijaygiri Filmos…

Pics Courtesy Montu Ni Bittu Promotions