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From BethLovesBollywood:

Shakti humping SalmanPrem gets some loving from Gogo
img: via BethLovesBollywood

Beth’s post also brings up a couple of monumental questions:

Is Andaz Apna Apna (AAA) the funniest Bollywood movie ever?

and the question that puzzled AAA fans ……………..

How did it flop so badly?

For the record, I think that AAA was one of the funniest Bollywood movies. The comedy style was slapstick and over the top but very clean – along the lines of Padosan.

The movie flopped for a variety of reasons:
1. The movie took too long too make as is evident in the late 80s-early 90s hair styles. Aamir and Salman were not as hot in 1994 as in the late 80s and early 90s.
2. Junta was expecting a love story with dinchak music and some comedy thrown in. Instead they got an out and out slapstick comedy with 50s melodies.
3. A lot of the tapori ishtyle public on whom the success of most Bollywood movies depends just plain did not get the humor.

But it continues to thrive to this day – in people’s DVD collections. Is it in yours?
UberDesi readers – Opinions? Comments?

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  • Runa

    Oh yes ! This is one of my favorites along with the afore mentioned Padosan ( which is my favorite Hindi comedy ever - tasteless stereotyping of Southies notwithstanding!)

    AAA has some pretty nice music and is the one movie in which Salman does not irritate me

  • Vaibhav Patle

    Yup definitely AAA is in my DVD collection. It is a cult classic from Bollywood having wide fellowship.

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