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Navin and Nandini are to marry - but Navin dies in an accident that wasn't supposed to kill him. He returns in Sudeep's chubby body - but will 'Fatso' get his girl?
Navin and Nandini are to marry - but Navin dies in an accident that wasn't supposed to kill him. He returns in Sudeep's chubby body - but will 'Fatso' get his girl?
Think of all those uber-cool Mumbai movies you've seen - Dil Chahta Hai, Bluffmaster, Wake Up Sid - put them in an imaginary blender, switch on, and hey presto, you have Fatso, frothing over with shots of surfing sea, rain-soaked skies, stylish bars.
Add a group of friends led by Navin (Kohli), who pops the question to Nandini (Panag) before crashing headlong into a truck and you have Fatso's main course - how to live after death. And what to do if your buddy, thinking you're in the great beyond, makes a move on your girl.
Fatso's a whimsical film with a rhythm somewhere between jazz and an old Bollywood song. Starting on an innovative note, it's brightened by Kohli's sparkly performance, Panag's dimpled smile and every shot of Mumbai that's made prize-winning cliche-level. Its most stunning sequences however occur in the grim sarkari office everyone apparently visits after they're dead - there is no heaven or hell, posits Fatso, just hundreds of peons, files, queues and babus, eternally occupied in 'mittings'. But Navin refuses to rest in peace till returned to earth - as fat friend Sudeep (Shorey). With Shorey literally getting a new lease of life, having visibly restrained himself as the much-mocked 'saand' of his group, you imagine Fatso's second half will rev up.
Alas. Here's where Fatso flops down heavily. Any sense of magic, of life rescued from death, love saved from vanishing, even the funny ironies of a slim guy stuck in a fat form, is totally missing. The 'friends group' is unconvincing. Kala's notable as a chatty clerk escorting souls about while Panag stands out in the silence of someone hit by grief. A cafe sequence, where Navin sees Nandini ordering spaghetti, then crying in the ladies' room, is moving. But otherwise, strangely flat acting and banal lines leave Fatso more heavy than cheerful.
The film seems overwhelmed by its own smart styling - little details like a dress drying on a clothesline, a girl rubbing hand-cream onto her palms, are clever. But there's too much style, not enough substance. No-one but pretty Tanuja (Bakshi), whose boyfriend Yash (Bhoopalam) hits on Nandini, seems to have a job. Life's a round of bar-hops with holidays when the living gets dull. The movie's peppiest number - 'Fatso! Na jaane kab last time sofe se khara hua' - is reserved for its feeble end, pushed wearily by Shorey listing everything he loves - mangoes to mosquitoes - before Panag mercifully plugs his outpourings with a kiss. Willing, yet weak, Fatso joined a good gym - but could have done with a much stricter trainer.
Review posted within last 6 month
Very nice watchable movie !!! Ranvir Shorey, as usual, was at his best !!!
Review posted within last 6 month
A badly made movie...
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nothing to it
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this is something new we have seen ...
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A nice entertaining movie !
Review posted more than 6 month ago
Feel good stuff...
Review posted more than 6 month ago
awesome movie
Review posted more than 6 month ago
They screwed a brilliant concept. . The begining was right untill you know, it just dragged and ended. . ALAS!
Review posted more than a year ago
stop making movies
Review posted more than a year ago
Good to watch it......
Review posted more than a year ago
picked up from the tv series Drop Dead Diva, with only the gender changed!
Review posted more than a year ago
Plot picked from hollywood movie "Down to Earth"
Review posted more than a year ago
Cute movie, don't know about others but I look forward to these type of movies once in a while. Fine acting by Gulpanag and Purab Kohli, while Ranvir Shorey needs no special mention here, he was fabulous as always. Liked the movie, I would want more of these small feel-good movies to turn up out of the blue and freshen-up my usually stressed brain.
Review posted more than a year ago
Not so ok......but its ok type movie. What you say guys !
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