We lol-ed with and loved happy new year! team t2 on what makes shah rukh khan’s diwali blockbuster fireworks of fun

SCENE-STEALER NANDU

I walked in not wanting to like Happy New Year. I walked out laughing the loudest. The Farah Khan film is over the top, has a hilarious plot without much logic and is sooooooo looooooong… but boy, is it fun.

The Happy New Year bit that made me the happiest? Abhishek Bachchan’s goofy Nandu!

“Nandu Bhide, dimaag mein keede, now you watching me speaking Ingleeesss”— says the man who can vomit at will, hiss into a snake dance anytime anywhere, and get emotional enough to want to give another man a “pappi”. Happy New Year wouldn’t have been half the fun ride it is without him.

The younger Bachchan had shown a great flair for comedy in Bol Bachchan. In Happy New Year he takes it a notch higher, triggering belly laughs in the audi with his one-liners, his drunk walk-and-talk and his crude jokes. The best Nandu scene from HNY? Abhishek stripping down to his bare essentials to make a ladder of his clothes! If only AB (Jr) just focused on his funny bone as an actor....

 

‘LOVELY’ DEEPIKA

It was a girl crush for us girls. Yet again. Deepika Padukone’s washboard abs — which are flatter than a washboard really — and her never-ending legs (which even got the ho-hum Charlie blinking) blazed the dance floor as she swung to Lovely. Be it an itsy-bitsy number or a tip-to-toe salwar kameez, you can’t take your eyes off Deepika’s Mohini. And it’s not just because of her looks. Mohini goes moony-eyed whenever anyone speaks in English, especially Charlie, and her attempts to speak it are hilarious too. Her “dence ek aaart hai” dialogue and the “sattar minute” Chak De! India spoof made us hold our sides. Yes, Deepika is super fun. And no one but she can wear neon lingerie and look that stunning!

 

 

 

SRK’S EIGHT PACK

Movie, cricket match, TV show or IPL party — with Shah Rukh in the house, rest assured you’re going to be happy high. Happy New Year became a hit for me within the first few minutes when SRK’s Charlie flexed his eight pack. With water droplets caressing every ab and pec of his body, I sat and registered his every move (in slo-mo!) in my mind. And oooh... that beard. Like in Chak De! and Jab Tak Hai Jaan, SRK with beard is far, far sexier than SRK clean-shaven. And I loved his collection of mirror Aviators. Sexy!

 

 

 

TAMMY THE STUD

Why would any woman want to get naughty with a pot-bellied 50-year-old man who speaks with a nasal twang and quakes in fear of his mother? Because it’s a Farah Khan film where the craziest things happen and the “hot” man in question is Boman Irani as Parsi bachelor Tammy. With a man purse, like Zach Galifianakis’s Alan in the Hangover films. Tammy fishing out weird things from his purse — an upside-down pineapple cake and ice cubes to dunk in his glass of whisky — to his 30-second epileptic fit (which finally gets turned into a hit dance move!)... Boman’s act is a riot.

 

 

STEAMY JAG

His abs were good, but the smoke puffing out of his right ear was too good. There were so many times in the film when we went “but...” because it defied all reasoning, only to burst out laughing at the most bizarre logic offered. Jag (Sonu Sood) is deaf in one ear, hence only the other ear belches smoke when he is angry. Lol!

 

 

HEADBANGER ABRAM

I was in two minds about watching Happy New Year... and then ended up watching it twice! And laughing twice as hard the second time. Though it’s three hours and four minutes long, Farah Khan does save the best for last — the end credits featuring the entire team, Farah-style. What made me most happy? Shah Rukh’s little bundle of joy — son AbRam — headbanging and kissing his dad. Awwwwwwww!

 

PLUS...

1) Overgrown men dressed in pink tutus trying to learn ballet. We ROFLed when Charlie and his “angels” — Nandu, Tammy, Jag and Rohan (Vivaan Shah) — held hands and stood on their toes like dainty dames. And the expression on Shah Rukh’s face? Priceless.

2) The gag in the elevator where the gang of four and Mohini read each other’s thoughts and “talk” through eye movements and hand gestures. A lot like that scene in Golmaal 3 where two sets of brothers play a miming game of the objects they want to shove up each other’s you-know-what, but done much better here.

3) The nonsensical lyrics of Nonsense ki night — Hindi proverbs translated word for word in English.

4) The Anurag Kashyap-Vishal Dadlani track, especially the unmentionable things they did with a feather boa (scarf) in their vanity van!

5) The dance moves of “mota, behera, bewda aur bachcha”.

6) The Narendra Modi doppelganger saying “Achhe din aa gaye!”