Another character based film Priyadarshan

What's common between some of the recent films by director Priyadarshan? Strong characterization of numerous actors in the film who may not be playing a lead role in the film but make a huge difference to the way proceedings unfold.

His most recent superhit film 'Malamaal Weekly' is one such example that went on to be a bumper success inspite of no conventional hero and a heroine. Though Riteish Deshmukh and Raima Sen were touted as the lead pair, the film's publicity or the narrative hardly revolved around them as everyone from Paresh Rawal to Om Puri to Rajpal Yadav to Asrani had a big part to play in the film's success.

Even earlier his 'Garam Masala' had as many as five heroines who had made an impact inspite of presence of big heroes like Akshay Kumar and John Abraham. If one goes a little back in time, one can cite the examples of 'Hungama' and 'Hulchul', each of which were multistarrer in their own right will etched out characters for each of the actors in the film.

Now 'Chup Chup Ke' too goes in the same direction as Paresh Rawal, Suneil Shetty, Neha Dhupia, Sushma Reddy, Rajpal Yadav, Shakti Kapoor, Anupam Kher and Om Puri play important roles in the film even when Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor play a conventional love 'jodi'! No wonder, the film promises yet another hilarious outing when it releases a week from now.