Shyam Benagal’s first commercial Bollywood comedy, Welcome To Sajjanpur, might well go on to do good business at the Box Office. Released only yesterday, the film has already received many positive reports and could beat the other comedy films released at the same time: the low-budgeted Hulla (Rs 1.25 cr) and the Warner Bros first Hindi film, Saas Bahu Aus Sensex that has received mixed reactions.
I am all for Welcome to Sajjanpur, because it’s a film set in a small town populated with interesting characters that make up the whole film. In fact, the film is nothing but a character study and it is this that will work for you and everyone who watches the film.
It’s a throw back to the times of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s films in which Amitabh Bachchan played the protagonist. Over here, the superstar is the young and remarkably talented Shreyas Talpade. It is his film all the way. Watch this film for him and the wonderful string of characters that breath life into Welcome To Sajjanpur.
You will want to overstay at this village.
