Film Review: Kyon Kii Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta

THE MAN who dwarfed "Bade Miyan" in David Dhawan's runaway caper a couple of years ago and has come to enjoy almost a monopoly over the numero uno status in terms of the `Number One' series besides going great guns in the world of gags and guffaws is back. If not with a bang, then with something close to it. The prudes may go take a walk. The cognoscenti may while away their time in the shadows. The man who can bring a house down with his brand of street humour is here. Doing his own thing in his own inimitable way.

You will like him here too if you like your comedy loud. You will loathe him here too if you think comedy is supposed to be an art of understatement. But there is no way you can ignore Govinda in "Kyon Kii Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta". He is in his element all the way in this tale of a lawyer who lies to maintain a living standard and speaks the truth to raise the standard of life.

He has for company Sushmita Sen who gets to play a leading lady in her own right after quite a while. She gets down from the high pedestal of studied elegance, sheds her inhibitions and loses nothing in comparison to the sparkle of a million diamonds. Hers is a consistently brilliant performance in a role tailor-made for the likes of Karisma Kapoor. She is soft, almost sober, helping to put the effort of Govinda in proper perspective. Her role of a housewife of an advocate may not be worth going miles to watch but it will keep her in the running for more plum assignments.

And Rambha? Well, she is there for providing a dash of enfeebled suspense in this otherwise smooth comic caper where one rides on thin emotion all through.

Rest assured even if Dhawan has not been able to hit the bull's eye he is not far off the mark here. "Jhuth Nahin Bolta" is good fun. Honestly.

ZIYA US SALAM

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