Ramjirao Speaking (1989) :
Brief Review -
This Cult Comedy by Siddique-Lal in their debut as directors will go down in history books for writing one of the best conflicts for any Comedy-Drama. Hera Pheri is known as a Classic Comedy among Bollywood audience and deservingly so. Even i have watched it over 100 times but now i know it was 99% copied from Ramjirao Speaking. I wish, all the real movie buffs will acknowledge this fact sooner or later but unfortunately that TV audience of Hindi movies will never understand this. Yes, that 1% extra what Priyadarshan has added in Hera Pheri is commendable. Those dialogues and additional humour from the Iconic characters has made it one of the Greatest South Remakes ever happened in Bollywood. A point to be noted here is, Ramjirao Speaking came more than a decade ago which gave it a Cult status. Those conflicts in Comedy genre Siddique-Lal wrote in late 80s by handling the human drama simultaneously, are just outstanding. I tried to remember almost every cult comedy i have seen, right from Silent Comedies of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd from 1910s and 1920s decades to Frank Capra's Screwball comedies from 30s decades to many other from 40s, 50s and 60s. And then i realised that this piece of writing by Siddique-Lal was on the Level of those classics. It marginally beats out many great comedies of that time and please note that i am talking about conflicts and dramatic scenes in the film and not gags. Sai Kumar, Mukesh and Innocent's Trio is hilarious. Let's forget Hera Pheri here because it wasn't even in making for 11 years since this. Original will always have its credibility and so does Ramjirao Speaking. It appears to me that whatever great comedies i have seen till date from all over the world, This one will be in My Top 5 of the 80s decade. This was just simply 50 years ahead for any comedy-drama in India. We might get a better script than this by 2040s and i would wait for it to make comparisons or maybe not.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.
