Review of One Two Three.

Review of One Two Three.

One Two Three was a comedy film released in the early part of this year where Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal and Tushar Kapoor played prominent roles. Director Ahswini Dheer based his film on the concept of mistaken identities.

The character Laxminarayan was used in the film and Tushar Kapoor, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal were all involved with the name and were wrongly identified by the other parties. Tushar Kapoor played the role of an underworld don who got a contract for killing a person and landed up interacting with Esha Deol who created designs for garments.


Sunil Shetty was chased by other law breakers who thought he came to kill them. Instead his boss had send him to complete a deal and return back. He got involved with the lady police officer a number of times in the film.

Paresh Rawal who sold garments got involved with Samira Reddy who was interested to finalize a car deal. None of them could identify each other and the son of Paresh Rawal discovered his father in a hotel room with Sameera Reddy for finalizing the deal.

Sunil Shetty was underused in the film. Paresh Rawal had shown his capability in comedy films in the past and so was comfortable in his role. Tushar Kapoor was a confused character in the film. Esha Deol and Sameera Reddy were impressive in their roles.


The audience this days are used to seeing a number of comedy films in the same year and as such unless the story has novelty that hardly react to these films. Films like Bombay to Goa, Buddha Mar Gaya and other films that were released in the recent past did not attract the attention of the viewers to that extent.

One Two Three had decent casting for there is doubt in respect of the success of the film as the story was not totally new and the script that innovative. The performance of the leading actors and actresses is the strength of the film and it may do well.

Uttam Kumar and Hemant Kumar.

Uttam Kumar and Hemant Kumar.

By: CR Chatterji.

Uttam Kumar was the uncrowned monarch of Bengali silver screen and his brilliant lips in the legendary songs sung by the leading playback singers had become immortal over the period of years. Hemant Kumar sang many songs for Uttam Kumar and most of them were superhits.

In the film Sapmochon, in 1955, the song “shurer akashe tumi je go shuktara”, “jhor utheche”, became landmark hit. Also the songs in the film Bondhu, meaning friend were very popular. The notable songs include “mou bone aaj mou jomeche”, “maloti bhromore”, etc.

Hemant Kumar’s songs in the film Morutirtha Hinglaj, directed by Bikash Raoy, became very very successful. The film was based on pilgrimage. Although Uttam Kumar was the leading star in the film the songs were picturised on Anil Chatterji including “pather klanti bhule”, “tomar bhubone mago eto paap”, etc., which became successful.

Hemant Kumar sang the title song of the film Kal Tumi Aleya, where Uttam Kumar composed the songs for the film. The song “jai chole jai”, which was composed with a tragic andaz impressed the viewers.

Also the songs in the film Indrani, where Suchitra Sen acted opposite Uttam kumar, became big hits. The notable songs include “surjo dobar pala ase jodi”, “neer choto khoti nei”, etc.

Uttam Kumar also gave lips in hit songs composed by Hemant Kumar in the films Harano Sur and Saptapadi. All the songs were very successful. In the mid-60s Manna Dey and Shyamal Mitra sang leading songs for Uttam Kumar and they were successful also.

The songs and the films have lot of musical value and should be restored.