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'Grand Masti': Fearlessly adult
- 9/19/2013 7:04:16 AM
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Director: Indra Kumar Actors: Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonalee Kulkarni, Manjari Phadnis, Karisma Tanha Certification: A unhooking prudery Rating: 2
Mark this moment. This is the moment when Bollywood breaks free. 'Grand Masti' is unabashedly gross, vulgar, crass, shameless and fearlessly adult. But for a moment one has to step back from the noise of dissent - from the guardians of Indian culture and their histrionic fatwas - and ask yourself one simple question: Who are we to choose for others?
A group of 23 teenagers were pleading for tickets at a multiplex booth this morning. Three didn't have IDs on them to prove they were adults. Even if they hadn't celebrated their 18th birthday yet, the fact that they were of the same clique where twenty of them had proofs should have been taken into consideration. What is 18, but a technicality in the age of the internet?
I am not celebrating Grand Masti like I did Delhi Belly (a film I had felt at the time would usher in change in the way we think of our cinema, much to the indignation of naysayers) because it does not share a similar level of artistic merit (hence the rating). But if Delhi Belly was the pressure cooker's first whistle, Grand Masti has blown the lid off in terms of shaking up our content. In the history of art, this has never been a bad thing.
There have been similar films in the recent past - but they weren't nearly as clever or well thought out - and almost always were incredibly sex
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