Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami
review by
ANIZ FILMVALA
*****
‘Like father like son’ the famous quote is a part of our Indian culture which is slowly dying but our audacious director Ravindra Gautam rekindles the strong middle-class bonding in a father and son relationship with great care and shows the contemporary condition of living a life on fast track.
Shekhar [Manu Rishi] and Subhash Joshi [Divyendu Sharma] are on an implausible effort to get a ‘Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami’ [21-cannon salute] for their father Purushotam Joshi [Anupam Kher] as his last wish,the man who had served a honest service for 35 years as a government employee, but died of a shock because on his retirement day he was dishonored for a petty crime which he never did instead of getting a farewell bid with great tribute.
Parallel is a crooked CM with host of illegitimate relationship one being her mistress Jayaprabha [Neha Dhupia] gives him trepidation by revealing the facts of their intimacy, as a result he dies a sudden death due to panic, as the grand preparation of funeral for the CM is done with the last rites to be given with a ‘Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami’.
Taanya [Aditi Sharma] is a PA to the CM and is engaged to Subhash gets a easy passage to exchange the body of sr. Joshi with the CM’s, will they succeed?
Anupam Kher as Purushotam Joshi is believable as for him the role does not demand more skills doing it effortlessly. Divyendu Sharma gives the most exceptional performance about making ETKS a very heartrending and entertaining film. Aditi Sharma is refreshingly fresh and gifted with ample talent surely to be here for a long innings. A must watch for everybody as a dose of reality check is the need of this hour.
Cast
Anupam Kher as Purushotam Narayan Joshi
Neha Dhupia as Jayaprabha
Divyendu Sharma as Subhash Joshi
Manu Rishi as Shekhar Joshi
Aditi Sharma as Taanya Srivastav
Rajesh Sharma as Daya Shankar Pandey
Uttara Baokar as Kalawati
Supriya Kumari as Sushma Joshi
Bhagwan Tiwari as Abhinav Shivhare
Sudhir Pande as Patwardhan
Aashif Sheikh as Arnav Goswami
Anurag Arora as Khairnaar
