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Movie: Ekees Toppon Ki Salaami
Cast: Anupam Kher, Neha Dhupia, Divyendu Sharma, Manu Rishi and Aditi Sharma
Director: Ravindra Gautam
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A still from Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami
Neither is Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami unbearable, nor is it a good film by any standards; it's somewhere in between. Purushotam Joshi (Anupam Kher) is an honest BMC worker who operates a fogging machine on the streets of Mumbai keeping dangerous diseases like dengue and malaria away. He has never taken a day off and always done his job with full honesty. On the day of his retirement, he is humiliated and suspended for losing the fogging machine, which he didn't actually lose. He finds it difficult to prove his innocence but his two sons who otherwise have been useless will now help him fulfill his last wish. He wants an Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami (21-gun salute).

Joshi dies and his son standing next to his dead body calls a helpline to enquire where he could buy cannons. Does the comedy work during this tragedy? It doesn't!

The sons somehow are working towards his last wish, a 21-gun salute but through all the wrong means, something that he would never approve. What he wanted was respect but what they end up giving him is something just for the heck of it. Here's the brilliant plan. They will swap his dead body with the Chief Ministers, who died on the same day and is now going to get the honor that Joshi wanted. It's just bizarre and absurd!
Trust me, none of this is funny. Yes, the makers wanted to make something different and they did.

Anupam Kher is very good as the honest BMC worker, which he plays in the first half alive and in the second half, dead. Neha Dhupia a starlet who is in a relationship with the Chief Minister and is actually the best one in the film. She is expected to over act and she does that well. Divyendu Sharma plays his part well. There are some unnecessary songs, which take the duration to two hours and twenty minutes, way too long for this film!

If your idea of going for a film is to get entertained and have a good time, then this is not something you would want invest your time in.