Sometimes, big things come in small sizes…SANKAT CITY may not boast of stars to lure the audiences, it may not have a colossal canvas [on the contrary, the making is very basic], it may not have a terrific musical score to act as a hook [there are hardly any songs here], but SANKAT CITY succeeds, and succeeds largely, in its endeavour: Make the viewer laugh at the right places.One walks in with zilch expectations [the promos don’t do justice to the product], but when you make an exit from the audi, it’s with the feeling that the 2 hours were well spent.Comedies, today, can be segregated into two categories — Brain-dead entertainers and intelligent comedies. Films like JAANE BHI DO YAARO, BHEJA FRY and SANKAT CITY fall in the latter category. Let’s be honest. Not all of us can think whacky or come up with a crazy madcap comedy like SANKAT CITY. It requires a wild and imaginative mind to come up with one and most importantly, execute it with panache. Debutante director Pankaj Advani gets its right on both the counts. Sure, there are glitches in the narrative, but Advani compels you to sit and listen to the story he intends narrating.

The plot is quite convoluted to write but easy to understand when you watch it. There is a film producer (Manoj Pahwa), a down and out actor and his duplicate (Chunky Pandey), a bombshell crook Mona (Rimi), a car crook (Kay Kay) and his whacko uncle (Dilip Prabhavlkar) , a gangster (Anupam Kher), his driver (Hemant Pandey), a Guru ala Baba Ramdev (Veerendra Saxena) and a few crore rupess involved.Sankat City is an independent flick that explores the underbelly of Mumbai, the nexus between Bollywood and the underworld, the importance of luck by chance, right timing and how one stray event that you think cannot affect you, alters your life. It’s about how everything is inter-connected.

Debutante director Pankaj Advani emerges as a good storyteller and manages to bind you with his multiple character-driven plot and multi-dimensional narrative. By the end, you realize that every character is integrally interlinked to the story and exploited effectively. The south Indian item number spoof is hilarious.Performances are consistently good by the whole cast- Kay Kay Menon, Anupam Kher, Manoj Pahwa, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Yashpal Sharma, with even Rimi Sen being surprisingly effective- with the sole possible exception of Chunky Pandey who goes ham-mer and tongs quite literally, almost as if to compensate for his somewhat underwritten character.

Final word? Don’t give SANKAT CITY a miss just because the film doesn’t star the Khans or Kumars. This ‘City’ is worth a visit!

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