Masti on the sets! 
By IndiaFM News Bureau, November 10, 2003 - 02:34 IST
Indra Kumar and Ashok Thakeria, the duo who delivered super hits like Dil (1990), Beta (1992), Raja (1995) and some other films, recently launched their 8th co-production – Masti. The film is a comedy of errors, like the first half of most Indra Kumar films (Dil, Raja, Ishq and Mann) with a little moral at the end.
Masti is a multi-starrer with a cast comprising Ajay Devgan, Aftab Shivdasani, Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Tara Sharma, Amrita Rao, Genelia D'Souza and libidinous Lara Dutta. Inspired from a Hollywood comedy 'The Seven-Year Itch', the film talks about the transformation most studs go through post-marriage, when they reflect on their glory days. The story revolves round three young married couples
Character Sketch
- Aftab plays Prem – a sexually frustrated banker
- Tara plays Geetha – his zealously religious wife
- Ritesh plays Aman – a hen-pecked husband
- Genelia plays Bindiya - his dominating wife
- Vivek and Amrita play the third couple
- Ajay Devgan plays the grim-faced serious cop
- Lara Dutta is the surprise package who provides a twist in the tale.
On the sets
- The atmosphere on the sets of Masti goes very much with the title of the film – total fun, madness and craziness. The boys constantly keep imitating the girls once the cut is called while the girls take on the command as soon as the camera rolls. The mood on the sets perfectly blends with the wild comedy theme of the film.
- On one of the recent shoots of the film last week, the sets were visited by interesting personalities, nowhere related to Bollywood. And they were none other than Australian cricketers Andy Bichel and Michael Kasprowicz, who had come to India for the triangular series. The cricketers, who also happened to be a close friend of the producer's brother, visited the Worli discotheque – Mikanos where a song was being picturized on the 3 leading ladies of the film. So fascinated were the cricketers that their 10-minute visit turned out to be a two-hour stay. They clicked photographs of the girls and even gifted them with passes to the India-Australia one-day match.
More snippets on the film
- The film describes 3 different stages in the life of the boys: youth, pre-marriage and post-marriage. For these different phases, the boys sport distinct and unusual looks. Hairdresser Aalim Hakim has given Aftab a spiky look and Vivek has grown long hair. Post marriage, they wear a toned down, de-glamorized look.
- The film is even said to have a special effects scene where Ritesh talks to Aftab on the phone and sound is shown travelling through the mobile phone. Again a funny special effect!
- Choreographer Ganesh Acharya will set the starcast in the swinging mode on tunes composed by Anand Raaj Anand.
- The unit will be shooting at nonstop speed till December and the film is scheduled to release sometime in April 2004.
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Ajay Devgan is hopping mad!
