Shahanpan Dega Deva
Mangale, Siddharth Jadhav, Kishore
Kadam, Santosh Juvekar, Kamlakar
Satpute, Manva Naik, Kranti Redkar
and Mahesh Manjrekar. 'Shahanpan Dega Deva' -
performance oriented film Known for his Police detection stories,
writer Shrikant Sinker had also written
in the past a play ‘Aaliya Bhogasi ’ based on a team of mentally unstable
people in a mental asylum, who only
think of their past profession and
enact their skills all the time. Producer Mahesh Manjrekar , perhaps got inspired with that play, while
projecting his characters through his
new film ‘Shahanpan Dega Deva’, which also revolves around 5 such
mentally unstable characters( Bharat Jadhav, Siddharth Jadhav, Ankush Choudhary, Vaibhav Mangale & Sanjay Narvekar ), who are being treated in his own way at a private Mental
asylum by Dr. Subodh ( played by
Mahesh himself) , attached to that
asylum. Mr. Manjrekar known for his offerings
on sensational subjects, this time
thought of moving into comedy and
hence selected this performance
oriented film with the sole motive of
entertaining the audience. Directed jointly by Atul kale and Sudesh Manjreka r, the producer has himself got involved into the screenplay and
dialogues in the company of Abhijeet
Deshpande and Sanjay Pawar. There is
nothing much seriously happening
into the screenplay, except for theose
mischievous acts by the five characters , which only encourage
competition among themselves. It only
looked like that the directors had
during the pre-interval stage had
given complete freedom to them,
resulting into overacting by atleast two characters. It was only after interval, it gave an
impression that the director duo had
taken total control of the film. The
happenings in the film clearly indicate
that each character had his own share
to display talent under a given situation, which was nothing but pose
mentally disturbed and perform an act
to look more natural in that condition.
And, this experiment succeeds only to
a certain extent in post interval
session comprising of 55 minutes.The film does not pay much attention on
the past history of these characters,
except for Bharat Jadhav, whose past
incidence has been shown for proving
him mentally unstable. The total length
of film is just nearing two hours, a perfect length, as further extension
would have certainly taxed the
audience. ‘Shahanpan Dega Deva’ is a male dominated film, as the three girls
namely Manva, Kranti and Poorva play
just show pieces and have been
rightly used in the climax scene as
item girls. Manva makes her
appearance just at the stroke of interval, while Kranti comes in almost
towards the end of the film. Most of the
scenes in the film are based on ‘mind act’ done by each character and among them Sanjay Narvekar invites
all the attention for his cricket
gimmicks that go very well with his
body language. His character also
springs a surprise in the climax, thus
turning him into a real hero. Watching the performances of other
artistes, Bharat Jadhav, Vaibhav
Mangale, Ankush Choudhary and
Mahesh Manjrekar himself are all
within their limits, except for
Siddharth, who has been controlled in the second half, avoiding dialogues
for him. Kamlakar Satpute, playing the
gay Don is just fine; nothing
exceptional about his performance, as
we have seen such characters on the
screen in the past. Since the film has Bollywood flavour, he reminds you of
Kulbhushan Kharbanda in ‘Shaan’, but doesn’t look dangerous. Among the three doctors from the asylum playing
villains, Kishore Kadam is impressive.
Others in the supporting cast have
done well, but Santosh Juvekar has
been wasted in that ordinary looking
side role. There isn’t much scope for music in the film, except for the so called item
number in the climax, where lavani
has been performed in a different
style. The background music sounded
loud pre interval, but has been used
well in the later part of the film. Cinematography by Ajit Reddy is
good . The film is likely to impress the
kind of audience who enjoy watching
TV shows like ‘Comedy Circus’ and ‘Fu bai Fu’, as this film is based only on performances to entertain the
audience with a given theme.
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