Mast Maja Maadi Movie Review
(2/5) First Golmaal, then Dhamaal
Mast Maja Maadi Movie Review By Raju Shanbhag
First, the good news. Mast Maja Maadi was rumored to be a carbon copy of Hindi feature film Dhamaal. Well, it’s only true for 17 ½ reels of the film. Now the bad news. The other ½ reel of the film is copied from another Hindi film Golmaal (Ajay Devagan).
And unfortunately, every copied frame of Mast Maja Maadi depicts the sad status of Kannada film industry, which imitates success like a lamb in the pack leading to the slaughterhouse. It would have made no difference if a Hindi to Kannada translator was given the job of directing this film; he would have done an equally good, or maybe even a better job.
Director Anantharaju is a man who believes in staying faithful to his inspirational roots. He copies the plot, the dialogues and sometimes even the camera angles of the original films to the core. But holy cow, I would instead prefer a DVD of Golmaal and Dhamaal with Kannada subtitles. That would have saved the trouble for lots of technicians and actors who spent their valuable time for this movie.
But still, if you decide to watch this movie, here is a man to man comparison for the actors.
Speaking of actors, everyone except Sudeep and Rangayana Raghu fade in comparison to the actors of the original Hindi films. Diganth is the constant whiner in this film who doesn’t improve his acting even after constantly getting slapped by Rangayana Raghu, who plays his father. Komal tickles your funny bones once in a while, but Arshad Warsi’s deadpan sense of humor is still the flavor of the season. Vijaya Raghavendra makes some sounds in the crowd, but rarely gets noticed.
Sudeep outshines Sanjay Dutt with his deadly serious looks and dry humor. The man routinely keeps a pistol on everybody’s head, beats up few rogues and walks away with the entire honor in the film. Rangayana Raghu, although overacts sometimes, fares better than Asrani in Dhamaal.
Jennifer Kotwal starts off as playing Rimi Sen’s role in Golmaal and understandably transcends into the Dhamaal part as she is among those rare objects in the film which can be looked at repeatedly; to hell with acting and direction!
Watch Mast Maja Maadi only if you have not watched the original films or if you don’t understand Hindi.
This by far the worst movie i have seen. The director cannot even copy decently from the original. This was the most horrible movie experience.. Skip it
I think as the author said, the hindi move dubbed or with subtitles would have been a lot better..
I agree with Raju shanbah on rating of the movie. There are few more points which i think are useful are .. go and watch the movie for the sake of fun and some comedy .. and the director has added three unnecessary songs to make the movie more longer. if u speak of sudeeps acting he would have done better and as much as to say he is capable of doing the same with better performance of him in an comedy role .. he could have done more justice to role..i do not agree that he was better then sanjay in this movie ..and with respect to watching hindi version with kannada sub titles i dnot agree to that also .. the director has done some work with respect to bringing the movie to kannadas nativity and there are many scenes where entire cinema hall will be laughed to its core.. and people will enjoy the scenes and the comedy .. all in all .. we are satisfied with the effort but not happy as it is an remake .. Its worth to be watched even if you have watched those two hindi versions of it ….