Producer: Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor
Director: David Dhawan
Starring: Govinda, Sushmita Sen, Rambha, Sharad Kapoor, Kiran Kumar, Satish Kaushik, Ashish Vidyarthi, Anupam Kher
Music: Anand Raaj Anand
Lyrics: Dev Kohli

Released on: September 21, 2001
Approximate Running Time: 3 hours approximate
Reviewed by: Sunder
Reviewer's Rating: 7 out of 10


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From the title, you know the movie is inspired by Liar Liar - and from your experience of Govinda David Dhawan fare, you feel they can carry this take off well. Well they do, as long as the movie focuses on Govindaīs inability to lie. The sequences in the second half where he speaks his mind is hilarious, with some out-of-world dialogues that add to the humor.

But the trouble with the movie is that this comes way too late - and much time and boredom is lost to introducing characters and building a cliched storyline. The movie starts with a new lawyer in Bombay, Raj (Govinda) , piling on his good friend and streetside lawyer Mohan (Satish Kaushik). The biggest lawyer in the city Tejpal (Anupam Kher) has a smart young daughter (Sushmita) - Govindaīs way to hitting it big. That is what Adarsh (Sharad) did to strike the riches with Tejpalīs elder daughter.

The trouble is that Sushmita carries a mind of her own - and thwarts Govindaīs plans just after marriage and when he thought he has it all. He now has to make it big on his own. Which brings the bad guys into the picture - Ashish Vidyarthi and gang. And a whole set of cliched sequences that donīt entertain, but thankfully never drag too long.

Years pass - the married couple have a son, while Govinda is also having a good time with Rambha to get closer to her bosses (the bad guys) and make more money. Now, as differences emerge between the couple and quickly go to the point of breaking the marriage - the child wishes his father didnīt lie.

Then the movie starts, about 2 hours after you thought it did. It entertains for a while which passes before you realize, to finish in a cliched heroic climax.

That is the trouble with the movie - way too much happens, and happens so fast that there is no time for humor. And when humor happens, it seems way too little.

David Dhawan scores as the editor to make 3 hours (which is long for his movies) flow fast. As the director, he does not have a strong grasp on the narrative which is why the best part comes so late. Govinda excels as always despite looking slow and old and bigger than he should be.

The cast supports him well, and technical aspects never really mattered as long as they didnt make things look bad. Which they donīt. The music is atrocious, and choreography canīt help much.

So, the movie boils down to a solid Govinda performance, brilliant humor for a small part of the movie, and the solace that the rest of the movie didnīt bore you even if it didnīt make you feel great.


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