MERE DOST PICTURE ABHI BAKI HAI

Amar Joshi (Suniel Shetty), who runs a video library in banaras and aspires to be a film maker. Despite facing objection from his father Joshi (Rajeev Verma) Amar Joshi decides to sell his video library and join a film Institute in London. After completing his course he lands in the city of dreams 'Mumbai' to make his film “Cheekh”. He has written this script about Indu Verma, a rape victim protagonist and wants to make a realistic film on it . Suraj Pandey (Rajpal Yadav) is a struggling actor doing bit roles in T.V. serials, who is Amar's only connection in Bollywood. Amar Joshi starts his struggle to make his film by meeting different type of producers who have their own take on amar's story. After many failed attempts He finally bumps into Monty Chadda (Rakesh Bedi) a P.R. Publicity man who sees good potential in Amar and decides to produce his film. Amar & Monty take help of star secretary Gupta ji (Akhil Mishra) to convince Mohini (Udita Goswami) & her starry mother Mummy ji (Neena Gupta) who agrees to do the film. Amar's film starts, but is stalled all of a sudden when Monty suddenly disappears. Amar is summoned by Sudama Bhosle (Deepak shirke) a Don, who was financing his film. He wants Amar to complete his film and also wants him to cast his girlfriend Tina (Mummait Khan). Amar reluctantly agrees as he has no option. But as luck would have it Sudama Bhosle is shot dead and Amar's film is stalled once again. Monty Chaddha resurfaces again and decides to make Amar's film into a magnum opus. So a veteran silver jubilee writer Mr. Baig (Om Puri) is brought on board. Once in, Mr. Baig takes over the reins of the film from Amar and changes it into a totally different film all together.

The film is an upcoming film director’s journey inside the dreamy world of bollywood, where is the reality of the largest film industry of the world. Films like GUDDI, OM SHANTI OM, LUCK BY CHANCE, MAIN MADHURI DIXIT BANNA CHAHTI HOON and THE DIRTY PICTURE have tremendous recall value even today. But in this film writer-director Rajnish Raj Thakur attempts to reveal the murky frivolities with Bollywood’s under world connection. He tooks a look at the film industry from the point of view of a director, who has potential to be the director. Director want to make a realistic film but circumstances makes him upset. The film start just like documentary and reminds film history, shows the journey of films with black –n-white film, silent film and talkie film. The second half is better than first half. The film ridicules every formula in filmmaking from sexy item numbers to rain dance songs. It emphasizes how a picture can start as a pure plot but is often muddled with an overkill of external elements like action, emotion, sex, romance, family drama, foreign locations. Suniel Shetty and Rajpal Yadav are pulling the film. A good satire on the erratic functioning of Bollywood as an industry. Suniel Shetty’s struggle rings true and however shabby the film, it does vaguely depict the madness behind the method. The action hero Shayan Munshi, wants to do romance but the romantic guy Shawar Ali, wants the girl in an action-heavy scene. What the girl wants is nobody's concern. It's a male-dominated industry with the women acting as mere subjects of a fetish or in exploitative sex scenes. Shayan Munshi-Shawar Ali and Neena Gupta’s track is just likes stardom effects on film making. Rakesh Bedi takes his hand up and pulls his ears. Razzak Khan, who plays a C-grade film maker’s role, takes his hand down and rubs his hand on the pant’s Zip. This view is too much porn. Writer-director isn't sensibly able to pull off a spoof nor does he have the sensitivity for a smart satire. Rather the film resorts to almost every element that it spoofs thereby making a mockery of itself. While it mercifully steers away from being a slapstick, the loud and hysterical acts cause much harm. Musically, the film is average. Aarif Sheikh’s editing is sharp. The cinematography is according to script and direction. The performances of the actors Suniel Shetty and Rajpal Yadav are in the first rate. Suniel Shetty enacts his role with sincerity with Rajpal Yadav. Om Puri, Neena Gupta, Rakesh Bedi and Deepak Shirke leave a mark. Udita Goswami and Mummait Khan have no scope to do, while Shyan Munshi and Shawar Ali are are tolerable. Razzak Khan is irritating. Kurush Deboo, Avtar Gill, Deepak Qazir, Mukesh Ahuja, Gopi Desai, Raja Khan, Suresh Menon and Dinesh Hingoo are okay in their acting. Technical and production values are fair. The film’s publicity is good.
At the Box office, MERE DOST PICTURE ABHI BAKI HAI, catches the audiences attention! But fail to get good collection.