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Agastya invents aliens to help his mad village onto a welfare map. Will the world get his joke?
Agastya invents aliens to help his mad village onto a welfare map. Will the world get his joke?
Straight up - Joker arouses extreme passions. You'll love it or hate it. It's a totally off-the-wall entertainer powered by corny jokes, OTT filmi characters and tongue-in-cheek sequences. If you like that sort of thing, you'll laugh out loud. If you don't, it's not for you.
Joker starts with scientist Agastya (Kumar) who's developing 'the world's most sophisticated radio' to contact aliens, urgently summoned from America to his desi village. With girlfriend Diva (Sinha), Agastya returns to his roots in - get this - Paglapur, a swampy village that belongs to no Indian state since the British officer mapping it vamoosed when the nation's largest madhouse broke into the place. The result - Paglapur was settled by the deranged and their descendants, self-sufficient till a dam pops up, choking off its water, the reason Agastya's called back by his desperate desis including bro Babban (Talpade) who only speaks gobbledygook, his cross-eyed father and the red-coated progeny of an English lunatic called 'Lord Falkland'.
Agasyta approaches several ministers for help but receiving only snide jokes, 'Sattu' turns the joke on the world and decides Paglapur is where aliens will land. As 'UFOs' - or, as Agastya shouts, "Haan haan, FO!" - descend, the world's press, politicians and goodies, from electricity to phones, reach Paglapur. As does Agastya's nemesis, nasty American scientist, the brilliantly-named Simon Goeback (O'Nell), who sets out to ruin the village's show.
Joker is literally a mad comedy, its real star its jokes, one villager stating calmly, "Dil toh karta hai ki qawalli gaun", another explaining an alien in a field as, "Babuji lota lekar gaye honge," glittering little gems in a crazy painting. Some performances - Talpade especially, O'Nell too - are stand-out while Kumar is adequate. Sinha makes a pretty picture but has a pinched role, Paglapur peculiarly not having any other women around. Joker's plot is inventive, inspired by a colourful mix, ET to Lagaan, Harry Potter, Peepli Live, even reminiscent of an Asterix comic where at the end, they find oil. It's satirical - the old madhouse gets turned into the 'Paglapur Laaj', its electric-shock room becoming the 'Presidential Suite' - and oddball, gaon-walas wearing their dhotis with Trilby hats.
But cheekiness aside, it's got flaws. Apart from 'Kaafirana' and 'Sing Raja', it has unmemorable music and its lighting provides a dim, aquarium-like viewing experience. Agastya's boss is a mysteriously flickering 3D-like image, Diva's scarlet nail polish appears and vanishes as rapidly as the village ET, the film's FX looks more tacky than techie. Quibbles aside, it's a funny flick which doesn't promise the earth - but delivers a home- made alien.
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really entertaining.. i just want to ask those who are telling this movie as a bakwas that , you ppl like salmaan flying air and don't like creative one? akshay, we are with you. we want creative movies like this
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Very poor show...
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Mental Torture !!!
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Made by Jokers...giving it 1 star seems lavish...its such a shock, same Akshay delivers OMG and also a Joker...Joker is senseless, made by people who think audiences are biggest jokers...
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For children's to watch
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Not worth an hour and fourty five minutes.
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one more fine performance by dashing akshay kumar.
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Shirish Kunder has lost it, he should let Farah Handle movie making and stick to baby sitting
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Total waste of money....
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Why Akhsay makes such movies.
Review posted more than 6 month ago
we can watch ontime
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good to see onetime
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Nice entertaining comedy movie !
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A nice comedy movie as its name signifies ! A beautiful acting by Akshay Kumar & the story is also very nice ! Over all, it is an entertaining movie !
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Its a Joker movie only.. no logic...!!
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Total BAKWAAS. waste of time & money
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Only for Joker
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Half value for money. Average movie.
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Go for this if you have nothing else to do. 50% value for your money.
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why Sonakshi Sinha also not added as "Special Appearance"?
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Stupid as Hell..
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This is good bit kiddish though
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hahaha...made by Joker for Jokers.. waste of time..
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faltu movie of all time.
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Joke on the audience, who paid to watch the movie..pathetic!!!!
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worst movie ever, waste of time and money.
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Joker is the most pathetic movie of the year and it deserves. Nothing goes in favor of the movie starting from the script, story, acting, songs and direction. Joker is a torture
Review posted more than 6 month ago
Agastya (Kumar) who's scientist developing 'the world's most sophisticated radio' to contact aliens, urgently summoned from America to his desi village and with the romance, the film is fine.
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akshay kumar aur sonalshi sinha ki jodi jam gai......
Review posted more than 6 month ago
Go for it if there is nothing else to do :). But ok movie for kids.
Review posted more than 6 month ago
Avoid the movie if you can... A perfect waste of time.
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Horrible movie
Review posted more than 6 month ago
JOKER ONE OF THE WORST MOVIE....BAKWAS
Review posted more than 6 month ago
This film can be termed as Sci-fi comedy having no sign of science. A good entertainment. These film critics in India are not so much qualified to judge such films. To me this is a good entertainment. In the film, the way Akshay tried to bring his unknown village in the limelight in a joking way is a good plot for entertainment
Review posted more than 6 month ago
Lost the will to live after the first 20 mins
Review posted more than 6 month ago
no bad comments about this movie totaly this movie ultimate
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