Cast: Govinda, Sushmita Sen, Riteish Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Ranvir Shorey, Rajpal Yadav, Sohail Khan, Rituparna Sengupta.
Director: David Dhawan
Duration: About two and 30 min
Theirs were honest, if lowbrow, fun. Even in recent times, the duo has produced the occasional box-office winner such as Partner (2007).
But everything in the world of films has a shelf life. And Do Knot Disturb, a bedroom farce that's only occasionally funny, gives you a feeling of old wine in new bottle.
Story goes like this: Hen-pecked Govinda is having a roaring affair with Lara Dutta. But to mislead the detective that his rich and suspicious wife Sushmita Sen has set upon him, he pays Riteish Deshmukh to pretend that the latter is actually Lara's lover. It's a perfect situation for farcical comedy. Dhawan tries his best to recreate the magic of old. Plenty of street-smart dialogues are woven around the similes of mobile phone, dvds and television to explain the pati, patni aur woh relationship: "Never attach your own tv to another person's dvd," for instance. But the movie never becomes the zany comedy it's supposed to be.
Like the director, Govinda tries hard too. And his loyal single-screen fans might still enjoy the way he says, Dolly, Dolly¸ Dolly, every time he sees the stunning Lara Dutta. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the movie's other beauty queen Sushmita Sen. The real scene stealer is Rajpal Yadav. Getting slapped was never funnier.