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Star Cast
Fruit & Nut
Boman Irani
Maharaja Harry Holkar
Cyrus Broacha
Jolly Maker
Dia Mirza
Monica
Mahesh Manjrekar
Khandar
Atmaram Bhende
Peter
Rajit Kapoor
Pinakin
Vijay Patkar
Clint
Surendra Rajan
Dhotilal
Kishore Nandlaskar
Motilal
Suhas Khandke
Mayor
Anisha Hinduja
Suman
Sachin Nayak
Anna
Bachan Pachehra
Sulaiman
Anil Mahtrey
Inspector Chaugle
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Director:
Kunal VijaykarMusic:
Siddharth Haldipur, Sangeet HaldipurLyrics :
Saajan AggarwalScreenplay:
Sharad KatariaStory:
Kunal VijaykarGenres:
ComedyCertification:
General audiencesStatus:
Completed
Plot Summary
Fruit & Nut
FRUIT N NUT is a madcap comedy with a central character named Jolly Maker, who is a simple, hard working middle class struggling bachelor in search of love, money, friends and success. Jolly Maker works as a clerk/accountant in office of a greedy and corrupt builder named Khandar. He is typically nerdy and un-stylish. He is also accident-prone and leaves a trail of disaster behind him. One fine day in broad daylight, Jolly Maker's beautiful, sexy, smart and snobbish colleague, Monica, gets mysteriously kidnapped.
Through a roller coaster ride and series of comical mishaps, Jolly Maker finds himself in the middle of plot that has been hatched by an insane Ex- Maharaja to destroy Mumbai!! Whether the poor, adorable, accident- prone Jolly Maker finally falls in love or not, gets his girl or not and above all is able to save Mumbai or not, makes for rest of the film.
Fruit & Nut
Maxabout Review
Largely silly, nothing funny about it..
Sunday, October 25, 2009
How many times can you repeat the same joke before it stops being funny? That's a question Kunal Vijayakar ought to have asked himself before unleashing on us his occasionally-funny-but-largely-silly directorial effort, Fruit & Nut.
'Fruit And Nut' tries to pack a lot in the overall narrative by introducing newer situations and characters practically every 10 minutes. In fact the latter half is so unbearable that you actually contemplate walking out of the auditorium. Thankfully, it is the 'unusual suspect' Mahesh Manjrekar who actually manages to make you at least remain seated till the end credits start rolling.
'Fruit And Nut' is a film which is neither sweet as a fruit not crunchy as a nut. In fact the best way to describe it is that its makers must have actually gone totally nuts in sanctioning a film - if it can actually be termed so - like this. The film's core idea is interesting and has the potential to make for an engaging satire, but Fruit & Nut settles for pratfalls and slapstick humour instead of the smart writing it so badly needs.
Director, Kunal Vijaykar simply missed the golden opportunity he had got, as he failed to use the comic talent of any of the actors made available to him for his project. The movie starts and ends with the same weird and uncanny sequences which become unbearable towards its even more painful climax
The real problem with Fruit & Nut is that beneath all the fun and jokes, the film's plot is more-or-less incoherent, and its tone never consistent. As a result, it doesn't quite succeed as a social satire because it's far too silly to be taken seriously.
Of the cast, Boman Irani and Mahesh Manjrekar steal the show with their broad humour, while Dia Mirza fails to grasp the tone of the film. As the 'lady in sari' is a pleasant watch though and carries a touch-me-not persona around her for most of the film. As a young woman who has been kidnapped, she does exude vibes of being someone who deserves to be rescued. Cyrus Broacha is sadly straitjacketed in a part that doesn't really tap into his mad, wild side.
Despite juvenile jokes like peeing on open electric wires, Fruit & Nut is mercifully not the sort of vulgar comedy we've got used to seeing at the cinemas these days. It's best suited for those who don't have a problem with silly, childish humour. For those expecting anything more, it's possibly the longest ninety minutes of your life .
Fruit & Nut has some funny moments, that's it! A film like this holds very limited appeal.