Clash of physically impaired heroes at box office

Mumbai, Nov 23 (IANS) Vikram Bhatt's new comedy "Deewane Huey Paagal" is about four men lusting after the same girl. That two of them, played by Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal, are physically impaired cannot be a coincidence.

It's the season of impaired heroes at box office. Three upcoming movies -"Deewane...", "Tom Dick and Harry" and "Pyare Mohan" - focus on physically challenged characters.

While Deepak Tijori's "Tom Dick and Harry" seems to have got itself into a titular budge with Sohail Khan, there seems to be more trouble around the corner for this comedy about a deaf, blind and mute trio.

"Masti" director Indra Kumar is also putting the finishing touches to a comedy in Bangkok called "Pyare Mohan" in which Fardeen Khan plays a blind guy and Vivek Oberoi plays a deaf dude.

"Pyare Mohan" seems to be on a direct collision course with "Tom Dick and Harry", which has three physically impaired heroes played by Dino Morea, Jimmy Shergil and Anuj Sawhney.

"Not really," says the super-confident leading man Dino who plays the deaf Tom in Tijori's comedy of survival.

"We're aware 'Pyare Mohan' treads the same territory. But we've nothing to fear. Firstly, because I believe we've made a better film. And, secondly, because we're coming before them. Our release date is Jan 20. Going by the amount of fun we're having during the shoot, I can imagine how much the audience will enjoy he film."

The buzz from the sets of "Tom Dick and Harry" is that Dino is devastatingly funny in the film. "I'm just discovering my funny bone," he chuckles.

"I'm a great prankster on the sets. I've been constantly playing pranks on a ll my co-stars during the film. In fact, I just tied Celina Jaitley's shoelaces together. If she can't fall in love with me, she can at least fall, ha ha."

Comic camaraderie is compulsory to make a comedy work on screen, insists Dino.

"We've been having a whole lot of comedies about heroes in twos and threes bumbling through life. And now we've two films about physically impaired heroes. 'Tom Dick and Harry' never makes fun of handicapped characters.

It shows how the three of us, who are deaf, mute and blind, use all the devices at our disposal to survive. I don't know what they're doing in 'Pyare Mohan'. But I know we're making a sincere and funny film."

In the recent past, there have been several films on physically challenged protagonists, including Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Khamoshi: The Musical", Vipul Shah's "Aankhen", Bhansali's "Black" and Nagesh Kukunoor's "Iqbal".

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