{"id":5759,"date":"2016-03-31T23:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:20:27","slug":"15-years-of-hulchul-priyadarshan-akshay-kumar-hera-pheri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"15 Years of Hulchul: Why We Miss Priyadarshan\u2019s Brand Of Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>ifteen years ago when the multi-hyphenate Priyadarshan\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hulchul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 adapted from the Malayalam film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godfather<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 hit theatres, Bollywood\u2019s idea of comedies involved a fair degree of sexism. The director\u2019s immediate competition was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/20-years-of-biwi-no-1-david-dhawan-om-sai-ram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Dhawan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whose films at the time (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/salman-khan-mocking-priyanka-chopra-bharat\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mujhse Shaadi Karogi<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Partner<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) were littered with more than one doltish damsel-in-distress. One of the highest grossing movies of 2004 was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masti<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a sex comedy<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that glorified adultery on the big screen. In comparison, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hulchul\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> patriarchal, woman-hating Angar Chand (essayed with panache by the late <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/valentines-day-dilwale-dulhaniya-le-jayenge-shah-rukh-khan-kajol-love\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amrish Puri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), seems tame.\n\nStill, the movie follows suit with a premise that has an all-dude household hang a \u201cwomen not allowed\u201d sign outside their haveli, just incase the undertones of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/slut-shaming-schools-sexism-gurgaon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">misogyny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are jarringly clear. Yet, there was a dose of wholesomeness in the film, similar to what Priyadarshan brought in every comedy, that separated it from the others. Its primary contrivance of a group of men hating on women didn\u2019t seem to be derived from a place of mockery as much as it felt like a reflection of social realities.\n\nOn the face of it, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hulchul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a sweet, rustic story of two young lovers, Jai (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/dil-chahta-hai-akshaye-khanna-dimple-kapadia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akshaye Khanna<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and Anjali (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/veere-di-wedding-bechdel-test-kareena-kapoor\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kareena Kapoor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) who belong to feuding families and try to convince them to make peace for the sake of their love. The plot itself has some truly underrated gags like Arbaaz Khan, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/jackie-shroff-gully-boy-hero-karma\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackie Shroff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Amrish Puri discussing their version of incel theory, a sprightly performance from Arshad Warsi, and the classic Priyadarshan climax scene that had the entire cast embroiled in a rambunctious rumble at the shaadi ka mandap. It\u2019s a classic Priyadarshan joint, replete with exaggerated tomfoolery, a generous dose of confusion, and affable protagonists; the sort of film that you find yourself warming up to, without really intending to.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1574760756.jpg\" alt=\"Hulchul\" width=\"724\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56635\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p><em>Hulchul<\/em> came at a time when this brand of harmless Priyadarshan comedies were the talk of the town.<\/p>\n<p>Venus Records &#038; Tapes<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<i>Hulchul<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> came at a time when this brand of harmless Priyadarshan comedies were the talk of the town: After gaining credibility with the evergreen <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hera Pheri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the director delivered a hit in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungama<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> just the previous year. In that sense, what modern Hindi comedies owe Priyadarshan is similar to what modern Hindi gangster films owe <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/ram-gopal-varma-anurag-kashyap-kaun-horror-hitchcock\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ram Gopal Varma<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: a solid foundation, a blueprint of the average Indian moviegoer\u2019s movie appetite. The director\u2019s outings were synonymous with striking a peculiar balance between mass comedy and subtle social commentary, a quality that Rajkumar Hirani would polish and run with, in the coming years.\n\nTake for instance, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhagam Bhag <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malamaal Weekly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, films where he offered a scathing insight into the struggles of the downtrodden while also throwing shade at the overtly affluent. There are things that you came to expect out of Priyadarshan comedies. His films boasted a recurring posse of performers like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/paresh-rawal-arundhanti-roy-twitter-hera-pheri\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paresh Rawal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Asrani, Rajpal Yadav, Om Puri, Manoj Joshi, and Johnny Lever, who would never fail to leave you in splits. More often than not, the trajectory of the protagonists were predictable: they were usually down-on-their-luck folks getting into sticky situations because of their own greed or short-sightedness. This is as true for Jai and Anjali in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hulchul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as it is for Baburao, Raju, and Shyam in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hera Pheri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\n\nBut despite his formulaic approach, the sheer recall value of gags, dialogues, and moments that found the pulse of middle class comedy in Priyadarshan\u2019s films are what sets them apart. One need not look further than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hera Pheri <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for proof of his impact on pop-culture. Such was the magnitude of the film\u2019s cult that in the midst of forgetting a line in our fifth grade play, my classmate decided to do his best Baburao Apte impression instead of saying his line on stage. The cheers he got for uttering \u201cWoh toh mast tel mein fry kar ke kha gaya\u2019\u201d was louder than any other reaction I\u2019ve heard during any Peter Pan recital. There\u2019s something to be said about the enduring ability of Hindi comedies (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hera Pheri, Malamaal Weekly, Bhool Bhulaiyaa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) which existed in the pre-meme era of the Internet becoming the primary fodder for memes. Priyadarshan is one of the few directors (apart from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/rajkumar-hirani-where-all-is-well-despite-some-chemical-locha\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajkumar Hirani<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) who has a monopoly on this: You remember a Priyadarshan film even today because its characters don\u2019t let you forget them.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The sheer recall value of gags, dialogues, and moments that found the pulse of middle class comedy in Priyadarshan\u2019s films are what sets them apart.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nYet like all trends, Priyadarshan\u2019s rule over Hindi comedies came to an end, almost unremarkably when the director, who boasts of an illustrious three-decade-old career in Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil cinema, tried his hand at a drama. The much hyped and equally jinxed <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was received tepidly at the turn of the decade, arguably a solid evidence of how the director should have stuck to his guns.\n\nA decade later, it\u2019s exactly this school of thought that Priyadarshan \u2013 readying up for his Bollywood comeback (the director is making a sequel to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungama)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 seems intent on channelising. Talking at the ongoing International Film Festival in Goa, the director <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinestaan.com\/articles\/2019\/nov\/26\/23372\/lots-of-stupidities-lots-of-blunders-and-survived-40-years-says-filmmaker-priyadarshan-on-his-career\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reflected<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> back on his Hindi film career, confessing that he shifted to Bollywood primarily for entertainment.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI stopped making comedies in Malayalam films and went to Hindi films for glitz, glamour and money. I went only for entertainment to Bollywood. I don\u2019t want to do any experiments in Hindi films,\u201d he said. It\u2019s perhaps perfect timing that this declaration coincides with news of the director<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/movies\/priyadarshan-to-reunite-with-akshay-kumar-for-comedy-film-2399271.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reuniting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/akshay-kumar-bollywood-birthday-gold\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akshay Kumar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a comedy film. Maybe today, Priyadarshan choosing not to experiment with his filmmaking might just end up being Bollywood\u2019s biggest experiment.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every climax of a Priyadarshan comedy is a lot like the Maharashtra state elections: They lack logic and involve way more characters than you can keep track of. 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