I still remember watching this movie on the silver screen as a kid. It was just weeks or months before that I had watched Hera Pheri as well. Hera Pheri is the first movie, which I remember enjoying so much in the theater. The movie made me keep laughing for hours. I became a fan of comedy genre. Watching this movie as a kid or watching a back to back comedy movie too wasn't disappointing at all. I got to laugh for hours that's all mattered as a kid.
I decided to revisit and watched this again. Johnny Lever managing to act dead for more than a day and yet Urmila wasn't suspicious even for a while felt as silly as ever. But of course I understood that it was meant to be silly. Govinda and Johnny Lever too executed it so well. Probably no other actors would've managed to pull off something like that with such perfection. There was a character in the movie played by Aarif Sheikh, who was shown as an extreme moron, trying to impress Urmila and always complaining about Govinda. Moreover, managing to mess up things almost each time. That's where I felt the supposedly comedy stuff was overdone. The rip off of Shankar Mahadevan's breathless was executed perfectly though. Especially towards the end, I couldn't get enough of Govinda and Kader Khan's 'chukki pisaenge'.
While I did enjoy feeling so nostalgic, I found some unforgivable flaws. It is unbelievable that while Govinda was pretending to be a husband of Nagma. He never bothered to ask her how her supposedly lover looks like. The makers kept such simplistic thing as secret for the climax purpose. Moreover, when Govinda was dating Urmila in New Zealand, he again never bothered to ask her about her family background, just to bring some unnecessary complexities in their relationship during the interval. Since this concerns to the primary storyline, such gaps are not easily forgivable.
As a kid, I wasn't aware of foreign locations and blindly believed that as they were in New Zealand, the songs were also shot there. However, now we look at those music videos, the Swiss flags, the city names or the bank names are clearly visible in the background. Na Heera and Moti song almost kept showing the Swiss flags throughout the music videos either intentionally or unintentionally.
I don't know if there was any controversy with Johnny Lever on the set of this movie, I felt he was needed for the pre-climatic scenes. Govinda accepted the chariot race challenge when he was still present. Suddenly, he was never there for the rest of the movie. I felt he should've been there at least for the chariot race scene.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend this movie to anyone. However, those who love to watch Govinda doing some funny scenes would at least find something entertaining about this movie.
