Great Grand Masti
- Director
- Indra Kumar
- Studio
- Balaji Motion PicturesMaruti InternationalSri Adhikari Brothers
- Release Date
- 14 July 2016
- Running Time
- 127 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹50.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹19.00 Cr
Review
This is what happens when a franchise runs completely out of ideas and decides that recycling the same tired formula with incrementally worse execution is acceptable cinema. "Great Grand Masti" takes the juvenile humor that barely worked in its predecessors and stretches it across a narrative so flimsy it barely qualifies as a plot—three married men wanting to escape their wives, a haunted house subplot that arrives like an unwanted guest, and a ghost story that's treated with all the seriousness of a bad WhatsApp forward. The performances are phoned in across the board; the actors seem to be going through the motions, cashing checks while their credibility takes another hit. Director Indra Kumar, whose own average hovers around the mediocre mark, offers nothing here except tired innuendo, slapstick that lands like a wet fish, and a complete disregard for coherent storytelling.
What's particularly galling is how the film squanders even its base premise. You could make a darkly comedic film about three men confronting their marital dissatisfaction, or you could make a genuinely spooky-funny haunted house film—instead, "Great Grand Masti" does neither, straddling both genres awkwardly and mastering neither. The technical execution is lazy; the humor relies entirely on double entendres that a fifteen-year-old would find obvious; the horror elements are nonexistent. This is a film made by people who believe their audience has the memory of a goldfish and the taste of a vulture.
Storyline
So basically, there are three married guys—Amar, Meet, and Prem—who are absolutely miserable at home. Each one's got their own ridiculous problem preventing them from having any fun with their wives. Amar's stuck with a mother-in-law who's convinced her dead husband needs to be reborn, so she's banned her daughter from being intimate with him. Meet's wife has this bodybuilder twin brother, and whenever he gets close to his wife, the brother goes berserk and ends up accidentally beating Meet too. And poor Prem can't even sleep in his own bed because his annoying sister-in-law moved in and wants to share a room with his wife instead!
One day all three friends bump into each other at a bar and decide they're done with this boring, frustrating life. They come up with a plan to head to Amar's village to sell off his family's old house, but really they just want to party and flirt with all the attractive women living there. When they arrive in the village, everyone's acting super weird and scared of this old mansion called the Haveli. An elderly villager fills them in on the creepy backstory—apparently, fifty years ago, a beautiful girl named Ragini lived there with her overprotective father who wouldn't let any boys anywhere near her.
Unfortunately, Ragini died from a snake bite when she was only twenty years old, but here's where it gets spooky—people say her spirit is still hanging around the Haveli, searching for something in the afterlife. So the guys are walking into this mysterious and haunted situation without really knowing what they're getting themselves into!
