Deewane Huye Paagal

When it comes to insane, slapstick, low-camp farces, the more atrociously divorced they are from reality, the better! The more pea-brained the jokes, the more unbearably tickling. PJs become welcome, and inside the forgiving innards of a theater, reason is flung into the absorptive darkness, and the basest humor instinct is titillated. It is almost akin to watching porn – an intimate, bare-all, cathartic act.

Deewane Hue Paagal doesn’t get as low and dirty as the Govinda movies, but here is a rip-roaring entertainer that makes no bones about the fact that it is....