"Guest iiN London" | A clean comedy
guest iin londonParesh Rawal is all set to hit the screens again as the ‘Atithi. The movie envelopes the chaos created by ‘Chacha Ji’ (Paresh Rawal) and ‘Guddi Chachi’ (Tanvi Azmi) on the streets of London, while a young couple Aryan (Kartik Aaryan) and Anaaya (Kriti Kharbanda), struggles to welcome these unwelcomed guests.
The curtains open with Aryan and Anaaya trying to enter into a fake marriage, the former doing it for a British citizenship, and the latter for money. Their act is all set in motion until Aryan’s uncle’s neighbour’s tenants come in to turn their world upside down. What follows is a series of events that makes the young couple fall in love and Chacha Ji and Guddi Chachi end up overstaying their welcome.
The movie has a couple of plot twists that might take the audience by surprise. Unlike its prequel ‘Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge’, Paresh Rawal has not managed to maintain the level of charm and innocence. After the first half, all attempts at humour have failed miserably, but the cast has made efforts to heighten the comic. In all, the movie has maintained the spirit of a light and clean comedy throughout.
Elements of emotion and sensitivity become apparent towards the end of the movie without coming off as tedious. The movie has also brought out a beautiful parallel between the east and the west, in terms of socio-economic and cultural discourses.
The character of the young couple’s Pakistani neighbour (played by Sanjay Mishra) is amiable and well done. We also see Ajay Devgn, in a special role, brought in with the retrospect of a 16 year old tragedy, in order to evoke sympathy in the audience. But, this has not earned the movie any more credit than what it is due.
Paresh Rawal has, as an actor, done a wonderful job. Tanvi Azmi, Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Kharbanda, have done satisfactorily and compensated for a little loosely held plot. The one song that the movie has is really mediocre but the absence of irrelevant musicals has given an edge to the movie. The movie has the same graph of the turn of events as ‘Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?’, but there are no jokes that would have you laugh out loud. Overall, the movie comes off as a decent piece of entertainment which can be enjoyed with the family.
