Finally an engineering film that doesn't skip third year.
MAD is about three best friends Manoj, Ashok and Damodhar aka DD, as narrated by Ganesh aka Laddu who couldn't cut the best friend's quota even though he is the one narrating the 4 years engineering story. MAD sheds light on the hostel life fun, makes mockery out of the principal, boasts about cheating in exams and a whole lot about the guys finding girlfriends while having fun drinking and smoking. How these best friends succeed in their respective love stories even before completing engineering forms rest of the story.
The film on the story part doesn't present anything that is novel and the some of the over the top jokes that don't work are painfully dated. But what stills works is the character of DD and Sangeeth Shobhan's performance is what brings life to the film. Remove him and it would instantly become a dull watch. He makes the ordinary scenes crackle just with his comic timing and ensure the other actors too get their moments to shine in those scenes. The director makes up for the routine script with quirky lines that succeed in making this a decent one time watch.
The film on the story part doesn't present anything that is novel and the some of the over the top jokes that don't work are painfully dated. But what stills works is the character of DD and Sangeeth Shobhan's performance is what brings life to the film. Remove him and it would instantly become a dull watch. He makes the ordinary scenes crackle just with his comic timing and ensure the other actors too get their moments to shine in those scenes. The director makes up for the routine script with quirky lines that succeed in making this a decent one time watch.
- chand-suhas
- Dec 18, 2023