Comedy films with double innuendos a shortcut: Anees Bazmee

Credited with Bollywood’s popular laugh riots “No Entry” and “Welcome”, filmmaker Anees Bazmee says comedy is the toughest genre to work on for a writer, and when a movie is loaded with double entendres, it’s merely a “shorcut”.

Of late, the Hindi film industry has witnessed a surge in comedy entertainers, but a sex comedy laced with sexual innuendos seem to be the current favourite flavour. Bazmee is not all for it.

“There are some good comedy films even now, but comedy films which are double-meaning and are a shortcut. I don’t want to make them and I don’t want to watch them. I don’t want to even say whether they are good or bad… My personal choice is to work around buffoonery,” Bazmee told IANS in an interview.

The maker of movies like “Singh Is Kinng”, “Thank You”, “Ready” and “Welcome Back”, said he likes to spread laughter with something as simple as someone making a funny face.

“It should be a situational comedy, and dialogues should be clean… A situation could be a tragedy, but you can find comedy in it. In ‘Welcome’, there was a scene where people are hanging from a tree, and that made people laugh a lot.

“Comedy is the most difficult genre to write, but it’s important. People are leading such stressful lives and people are forgetting how to be happy. So making them laugh has become important, but tough,” said Bazmee, who is now set to work on the fun-filled” “Mubarakan” and the edge-of-the-seat thriller “Aankhen 2”.

He has a stellar cast to work on in both the projects. “Mubarakan” has real life uncle and nephew Anil Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor in the same frame and they will be playing Sikh characters complete with turbans. And the cast for “Aankhen 2” will be led by megastar Amitabh Bachchan, with whom Bazmee is glad to be working with for the first time.

“‘Mubarakan’ is a very special film. I’m directing Arjun for the first time. Like the title suggests, it’s a movie about happiness, it is fun-filled, it has a wedding at its core and there’s a lot of fun and humour in it,” Bazmee said, and added that he hopes to complete the project by March next year in time for its July 28, 2017 release.

His second release for 2017 will be “Aankhen 2”. It will release around Diwali next year, but a lot of work for the movie has already been done, he says.

“I feel the most important thing to do is to write the script. Once that’s done and if you have the actor’s dates, you can manage it well. However, I have never worked on two films together. I have made only one film at a time. But for these movies, we have a clear-cut program,” he said when asked how he plans to juggle between the projects.

“Mubarakan” has a long schedule of one and half months, but a location is yet to be zeroed in on. Maximum portions for it will be shot at a foreign location and the rest will happen in Mumbai and Punjab.

“It’s a very well-planned film. ‘Aankhen 2’ is also a big film and has several people, but there’s a plan in place for that as well. I think both films can be handled easily because both the scripts are written already.”

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16 Comments

  • Hats off to Anees…..
    I watched Ready, Singh is King, Namastey London, welcome,.
    There R superb Entertaining Films
    Specially READY it’s out and out CLEAN FAMILY ENTERTAINER….
    Some High Class People will say Ready is a crap….
    But person like me [ common man ] say Ready is A CLEAN entertainer….
    Namaste London & Singh is king also really good. Singh is king is better..,,,

  • Anees Bazmee has made some really good films which were entertaining and funny . Pyaar Toh Hona Hi Tha, Deewaangee, Welcome, Singh Is King and No Entry . He has made crap movies in the recent years such as No Problem, Ready and Welcome Back . Anees Bazmee and Priyadarshan have made some really memorable Comedy movies in the previous decade and I hope he continues to make such kind of movies . I am not very much excited for Mubarakan but Aankhen 2 is looking exciting and thrilling because of Amit Ji, Anil Kapoor and Arshad Warsi . I still feel Aankhen 2 clashing against Golmaal Again on Diwali 2017 is not a great idea as Golmaal is a massive franchise having terrific recall factor . Anees and Ajay are friends and can cordially decide to avoid the clash . So if all goes well Anees Bazmee will have 2 movies in 2017 and both will be having Anil Kapoor . The level of Comedy is falling day by day and I hope we get to see genuinely entertaining Comedy films in the next couple of years . Cheers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • That’s so right…….just think of it……telling a double meaning joke and making a whole movie around such similar jokes……..its shortcut and damn cheap.

    The problem with shortcut though is that it fails quickly…..the spate of double meaning movies failing in the past few months are proof enough.

  • What about no entry 2, i think he has given up of that project because salman Khan is not the same salman Khan who worked with him in no entry specialy when he is in a career high and only bound to do content movies not comedies

  • @KANZ.. NAMASTE LONDON ANESS BAZMEE KI FILM HAI??..
    AKHAND HUTIYA BHENCHO.
    BHAI PATA HAI SALMAN KA FAN HAI TERE COMMENT ME LOGIC TOH HOGA NAI..BUT KUCH BHI MAT BOLA KAR YAAR..
    ???

  • @kans, namastey London not director Ed by Anne’s

    Anyways, I’m looking 4 some good entertaining comedies starring some a listers 4 a long time now…last good comedy according 2 me was happy bhaag jayegi and before that was tere bin laden 2..long gap between them and even longer between this and kis kis ko pyaar karoon and pyaar ka punchnama 2…very shortage of good comedies in bollywood…of adult genre, I liked mastizaafe

  • no other fims can match the class of hera pheri series! !!! believe me audience are dying for hera pheri 3!!!! hope it will be out till 2018

  • @Oldie Era Srk : Why are you generalizing all Salman fans due to a mistake from one fan ? Have you read @sss comments ? He believes Saif Ali got Bharat Ratna, Srk built 19 abs for HNY, GGM to thrashs Sultan and had predicted Charlie Storm with 300 crs in Diwali 2014. That guy made a raitaa of logic, what do you call this ? All srk fans are morons like him ?? Kuch bhi bakwaas mat kar, comment like a sensible person.

  • Anees Bazmee is a talented director. You must give it to him. He has successfully made films of different genres: romantic, comedies, thrillers and dramas etc

  • @Flop Era SRK, neither SRK has made any film with Anees Bazmee nor has Anees to do anything to do with him. Begaane Shaadi Mein, Abdullah Deewana!
    Upar Se Shana ban raha hai? Bashing all Salman fans for an unintentional mistake of a Salman fans??
    What a cheap joker!! First correct the logics of your own mates like Sss, Romance, Fasal etc etc

  • No Entry was A Clean Family Entertainer?

    What a joke

    Would hutiya hi hoga jisne Ye film Apni Family ke sath dekhi hogi.

    Masti & No entry was starting of Sex Comedy gener
    In no Entry & Masti All leading men go to Other woman For Lot Of Masti & they Stuck between wife & GF.
    Almost same story

  • one of the few directors of our industry whose comedy films are actually entertaining really liked his previous blockbusters comic flicks like no entry, singh is king, welcome and ready also liked welcome back as well can’t wait for aankhen 2 next year in diwali

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