What happens when four young fun loving boys (Shreyas Talpade, Jaaved Jaffrey, Aashish Chowdhary and Vatsal Sheth) begin a crazy house hunt which takes them through a series of ultra comical hurdles in a bid to find that one roof that can tolerate and shelter their combined problems? Paying Guests movie review…
The story of Paying Guests starts with three friends Bhavesh, Parag and Parikshit (Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey and Aashish Chaudhary respectively) who are paying guests in Kiska Minglani’s (Asrani’s) house.
Then Jayesh (Vatsal Seth), who is a Parikshit’s cousin, joins them. Overnight, they are thrown out of the house and then begins the crazy hunt for a house.
Now, they end up at Ballu Singh (Johnny Lever) and his wife Sweety’s (Delnaaz Paul) house. The crazy Sikh landlord Ballu puts forth a condition that they would allow only couples as paying guests.
They give in to his condition but how – they are all bachelors! Who will play their wives? Thus, Aashish Chaudhary and Vatsal Seth then introduce themselves as married couples with Shreyas Talpade and Javed Jaffrey posing as their respective wives. The story then shows all the different situations which the four friends face while trying to hide their reality.
The new drama triggers a series of confusions that builds into the rich complexities of mistaken identities and a climax of comic wizardries.
Paying Guests starts of well, but its narrative seems be directionless by midway. There are some funny moments, okay. But at times, the characters try so hard to tickle your funny bone, but fall flat.
The four guys Shreyas, Javed, Ashish and then Vatsal, and the landlords Johny Lever and Delnaaz Paul do well in their parts in Paying Guests.
The four leading ladies have nothing worthwhile to do. Celina and Neha are a shade better than the other two ladies Riya and Sayali Bhagat.
Asrani stands out, while Viju Khote and Paintal are just okay in Paying Guests. Chunkey Pandey and Inder Kumar who are in negative roles are just wasted.
Cinematographer P. Shelvakumar has done a good job what with some eye pleasing fresh locales of Bangkok and Pattaya, but the climax towards the end is just mediocre inPaying Guests.
Cast of Paying Guests:
Shreyas Talpade – Bhavesh Verma / Karishma
Javed Jaffrey – Parag Melwani / Kareena
Aashish Chaudhary – Parikshit Pandey
Vatsal Seth – Jayesh Takhur
Celina Jaitley – Kalpana
Sayali Bhagat – Seema
Neha Dhupia – Aarti Gupta
Riya Sen – Arpita
Johnny Lever – Ballu Singh
Delnaaz Paul – Sweety Singh
Chunky Pandey – Ronnie
Inder Kumar – Murli
Asrani – Kiska Minglani
Paintal – Appa
Viju Khote
Credits & Crew of Paying Guests:
Directed by Paritosh Painter
Produced by Subhash Ghai, Raju Farooqui
Written by Paritosh Painter
Music – Sajid Wajid
Cinematography – P. Shelvakumar
Music by Sajid-Wajid
Cinematography Selva Kumar
Film Editing by Manish More
Art Direction by Ashish Anant Ranade
Sound – Ashish Manchanda, Gunjan Srivastava
Visual Effects by Salil Deshpande, Achal Muchhala, Rajiv Raghunathan, Parantap Singh, Muthu Stalin
Paying Guests, movie review