‘Cirkus’ Movie Review: Ranveer Singh’s film with Rohit Shetty creates a lot of ruckus

Ranveer Singh in ‘Circus’ | Photo Credit: T-Series

Rohit Shetty has been making his comedy of errors since long, but this time the director who introduced us to a new chaos takes inspiration from Shakespeare’s epic drama and dusts off Gulzar’s play grapes (1982) to produce a lackluster copy that is downright dull and dull. This comes as a surprise as it is headlined by a lively string of actor Ranveer Singh in a double role and surrounded by Rohit’s trusty tag team of comedians who excel at buffoonery.

The film promises several amperes of comic current but it hardly passes through its writing. In fact, the makers literally star empowered us to take charge and there is even an item song featuring Deepika Padukone to underline the claim. But jokes can’t light up the celluloid, leaving us cold. Over the years, Priyadarshan has gone livewire with better comic wattage. Obviously, the only bit of situational humor that works is taken directly from Gulzar’s script. The rest, penned by three writers, reels like a loosely scripted skit. comedy circusOf which Rohit once used to be the ringmaster.

know who grapes Recall that it is about two sets of identical twins separated at birth. Years later, when they – named Roy (Ranveer) and Joy (Varun Sharma) – end up in Ooty at the same time, misunderstandings lead to confusion and chaos.

Murli Sharma, the doctor who switched twins at birth to further his dated nature versus nurture experiment, is the voice of the author who breaks the fourth wall to share the audience’s curiosity at the improbability of the situation. But he does it so often that the tool soon loses its value.

It’s a script that is perhaps more suited to cool situational comedy fueled by music and performances than Rohit Shetty’s style of overwrought slapstick. We know that Rohit takes tamasha literally, but he often laces it with relentlessly scientific humor that compels us to disbelief and surrender to logic. Here, we just get a series of predictable slapstick that sound more like a sense of humour. Sanjay Mishra tries hard to be laughable but with a couple of laugh-out-loud moments it quickly becomes a laborious endeavor. So is Johnny Lever’s entry scene which fails after promising a riot. Siddharth Jadhav has a better arc, but nothing as hair-raising as his hairstyle.

From black hill For Rai Sahab, Rohit exemplifies several Bollywood clichés to generate laughs, but unfortunately, the jokes don’t really hit the ground. Ranveer is surprisingly off-colour and Varun as his sidekick brother is consistently soft. Jacqueline Fernandez and Pooja Hegde as the love-affairs of identical twins are there just for ornamental value, as the glittering sets glisten but add hardly any substance to the buffoonery on display. Even the circus background has not been properly exploited to keep the interest of the kids.

At one point, breaking out of alliteration, Mishra describes the proceedings as Ooty’s craziness, the one who is Circus Is; A reckless commotion in Ooty. Unless someone else is paying for tickets, it is better to snuggle up in the quilt and watch the adventures of Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma on television once again.

The Circus is currently playing in cinemas