Are you ready for a rip-roaring laughter riot at the theaters near you? Coming soon to make you roll with hilarity is the comedy flick 'Paying Guests', starring the crazy foursome of Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey, Aashish Chaudhary and Vatsal Seth, paired with Celina Jaitley, Sayali Bhagat, Riya Sen and Neha Dhupia (not necessarily in that order). Also forming a part of the mad star-cast are well-known names like Johnny Lever, Chunkey Pandey, Asrani, Paintal and Delnaz Paul.
'Paying Guests' is produced by Raju Farooqui and will be released under the banner of 'Mukta Arts', on 29th May 2009. The directorial venture of Paritosh Painter, it has Sajid-Wajid as the music directors and Jalees Sherwani, Wajid, Rashid Firozabadi and A. K. Upadhyay as a part of the lyricist team. The story of 'Paying Guests' revolves around the life of four young fun loving boys, played by Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey, Aashish Chaudhary and Vatsal Seth, who want to rent a house together.
In the crazy house hunt that follows, the foursome finds itself going through a series of side-splitting events. All, for one roof in which they can live together and tackle their problems. Soon, they manage to find a crazier landlord Ballu (Johnny Lever) willing to have them as 'paying guests'. However, Ballu has a condition; he will give accommodation to 'couples' only. Though they agree to this condition, from where will they get wives (all of them being bachelors)? As the story moves ahead, lots of comic situations follow.
What works in the favour of Paying Guest music is the consistency factor that ensures that you get what you would have expected from the score to begin with. This time around it's the turn of yet another catchy number 'Ya Rabula Rabbi' to find a place in the album. Primarily a Sonu Nigam number with rap by Earl D'Souza and Amrita Kak chipping in two minutes into the song, 'Ya Rabula Rabbi' is a number that Salman Khan would have loved to have in his repertoire.
Can we expect Pritam to look at Said-Wajid and say - 'Et Tu?' Reason? The base rhythm of 'Nazar Se Nazaria' has a liberal take off from the sound of 'Crazy Kiya Re'. Never mind the similarity factor because 'Nazar Se Nazaria' in any case hardly makes an impression and doesn't have much to offer. Yet again, this number too tries to be all fun and frolic but at the end of the day doesn't rise above an average item number category. Sung by Sunidhi Chauhan, it's a surprise that the song also finds a 'remix version' for itself! Avoidable!
Overall, in Paying Guest we are not looking at a number that could rewrite history or make you head for those music classes. However, what can be rest assured is the fact that while songs like 'Jack & Jill', 'Paying Guests' and 'Ya Rabula Rabbi' are played on the big screen, there won't be a single dull moment for the audience.
