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Garam Masala (2005 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Garam Masala' is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan, featuring Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Paresh Rawal, Rimi Sen, Neha Dhupia and Rajpal Yadav. It was released during Diwali in 2005. Kumar received the Best Actor in a Comic Role award for his performance at the Filmfare Awards. Over time, the film has gained a cult following and has been regarded as one of the best Hindi films in the comic genre. It is a remake of Priyadarshan's own 1985 film 'Boeing Boeing' which itself was a remake of 1965 film of the same name which in turn was based on the 1960 French play of the same name. Kumar and Abraham's restaurant scene with Dhupia was adapted from another of Priyadarshan's own Malayalam films, 'Aram + Aram = Kinnaram'.
Plot
The film starts off when two photographers Makarand "Mac" Godbole and Shyam "Sam" Salgaonkar are doing a photo shoot. While Mac is shooting the models in exposing poses, his fiance Anjali leaves in disgust due to Mac's closeness to the models. Their boss calls them into his office and tells them that they are good-for-nothing photographers. He threatens to reduce their pay if they don't get some good pictures for the world photography competition to make his magazine 'Garam Masala' famous.
Both Mac and Sam ask Maggie, the boss's secretary, on a date on the same day, at the same restaurant at the same time. As all three meet up at the restaurant a pickpocket takes Mac's and Sam's wallets. After the meal, the competition to impress Maggie heightens thus evoking humorous events after which Sam and Mac leave Maggie to pay the bill.
Sam visits a famous photographer, praising him and asking for a few outstanding shots. These stolen shots help Sam to win the world photography competition. He gets promoted, is given ten percent of the prize money and has his pay doubled, whilst Mac receives a demotion to assistant. Sam flies off to the US to enjoy his holiday, leaving Mac fuming in Mauritius.
The chief editor persuades Mac to show up Sam by getting three women to be his fiances, getting a very expensive flat and driving very expensive, imported cars. Following his promise, Mac gets a high-quality flat and gets access to three beautiful air hostesses. His driver, Babban, is his key to the high life. Not only does Babban get Mac access to the flat, he delivers very high-end cars to impress his fiances. He drives Mac's cars and does all his services for a small amount of liquor every day. Lastly, Babban gets Mac a housekeeper, Mambo, who has an attitude problem and doesn't care what goes on in his flat so long as his demands are met.
He has affairs with each of the three women Deepti, Puja and Sweety and creates chaos. Sam returns from America, only to find his friend turned rival, playing around with three women at once. He tries to help his friend and tries out his own luck with the girls.
The story turns into mayhem when it's hard for the two boys to maintain the three girls simultaneously. Mac's original fiance Anjali learns about Mac's acts, and it creates a bigger mess. When their cook Mambo leaves, they begin to realise their mistakes and Mac attempts reuniting with Anjali; in the end Mac tries to climb on the car which Anjali and Sam are in while being chased by the three women he was dating now that they realised the truth.
Cast
* Akshay Kumar as Makrand "Mac" Godbole
* John Abraham as Shyam "Sam" Salgaonkar
* Paresh Rawal as Mambo
* Rimi Sen as Anjali, Mac's real fiance and to-be wife
* Neha Dhupia as Maggie
* Daisy Bopanna as Deepti, an airhostess, Mac's fiance
* Neetu Chandra as Sweety Nair, an airhostess, Mac's fiance
* Nargis Bagheri as Puja, an airhostess, Mac's fiance
* Rajpal Yadav as Babban
* Manoj Joshi as Nageshwar
* Asrani as Mamu, Mac's maternal uncle
* Viju Khote as Mac & Sam's Boss
* Prithvi Zutshi as Landlord Padgaonkar
Box office
Made on a budget of 170 million, the film grossed 546.5 million in its theatrical run.
Awards
; 51st Filmfare Awards
'Won'
* Best Comedian Akshay Kumar
Release
The film was theatrically released on 2 November 2005. The distribution rights of the movie were acquired by Disney India. The DVD of the movei was released by Shemaroo Entertainment. The television premiere of the moveiiwas occurred on Star Plus on 3rd January 2006. The film has been made streaming available on Disney Hotstar since 2019.
Soundtrack
The music is composed by Pritam while the lyrics are penned by Sameer and Mayur Puri. All the remix songs are mixed by DJ Suketu.Background Score by D. Imman
Track listing
Plagiarism allegations
The song "Ada" has been lifted from Middle Eastern artist Amr Diab's "Ana", The preludes/interludes of "Falak Dekhoon" from Amr Diab's "Wala Ala Balo" and the main tune from Amr Diab's Saddakny Khalas both from Diab's 2001 album Aktar Wahed, some parts of "Dil Samundar" lifted from Turkish pop star Tarkan's Kuzu Kuzu.References
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