Aarti Saxena
After three years of the sadness people saw and the stress they felt due to the complete ban, they were in dire need of laugh-out-loud films. Movies started appearing in theatres, but these big budget films got beaten up. They lacked humour. On the other hand, when Akshay Kumar’s Sooryavanshi and the recently released film Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 saw a lot of laughter, the audience gave a good start to both the films.
After this, the filmmakers started to understand that in today’s era, comedy films have become the need of the audience. Perhaps because of this, where Amitabh Bachchan’s Jhund, Ajay Devgan’s Runway 34 and Shahid Kapoor’s jersey got beaten up, Kartik Aaryan’s horror comedy film Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 rocked the box office. After this came Karan Johar’s film Jug Jug Jio. It is a family film and the serious theme is based on divorce. In this film too, the actors of the film Anil Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Manish Pal are seen laughing. Not only this, many upcoming films are focused only on laughter.
Apart from Jug Jug Jio, many such films are coming in which comedy scenes are included. Some movies are completely on the verge of laughter. Like Akshay Kumar’s movies Rakshabandhan, O My Gad 2, Double Excel, Phir Hera Pheri. The same Akshay’s another untitled film, directed by Priyadarshan, is also a thriller comedy film.
Ajay Devgan will also be seen laughing. She has Anees Bazmee directorial Sadesati, Rohit Shetty directorial Golmaal 5 and Indra Kumar directorial Thank Gad. The sequel to Salman Khan’s No Entry Mein Entry No Entry is directed by Anees Bazmee and is full of laughter. Ranveer Singh will be seen doing comedy in some of his upcoming films despite the failure of Jayesh Bhai Jordaar. Like Ranbir Singh in a double role in Rohit Shetty-directed Circus. Apart from this, the love story of Raki and Rani is a love based film by Karan Johar. In this too Ranveer Singh has a comical character. In this, Alia Bhatt will be seen once again after Gully Boy.
Ayushmann Khurrana is also doing comedy films. Ayushmann’s film Doctor Ji is also a comedy film directed by Anubhuti Kashyap. Ayushmann is also doing another comedy film, Googly. The director of this film is Dream Girl fame Raj Sendi. Ayushmann is also doing another comedy film Action Hero. Ayushmann is doing another comedy film Gynecology Department under the direction of Anubhuti Kashyap.
Rajkummar Rao is also doing some comedy films this year. The film is a remake of Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra starrer Chupke-Chupke in which Rajkummar Rao will be seen in the character of Dharmendra and Vicky Kaushal will be seen in the character of Amitabh Bachchan. Apart from this, Rajkummar Rao will once again be seen in Stree 2 with Shraddha Kapoor. Stree 2 is a horror comedy film by Dinesh Vijan.
According to editor and film critic Narendra Gupta, comedy films play more because in today’s stressful environment everyone wants to be mentally happy and light-hearted. Director Anees Bazmee has produced many hit comedy films in his career so far have been given. He believes that in films, we show what the audience feels in their lives as well, because films are the mirror of the society, so we always include humor in our films keeping in mind the choice of the audience. I know the pulse of the audience, so I make similar comedy films. The color of humor can also be added through the story and characters, which I have done in almost every film.