Shhh! Is the first signage that you will find for food lovers are at the entrance of the resto-bar. Unlike the other spaces at the restaurants, there will be no pretty faces welcoming with a smiling face. So, you need to enter the door but before simply dial 5 in the phone booth and book a table for you with the number of members. Now, you are ready to move in to feel the crowd of ambiance filled with laughter and happiness.

PDT is the space that you will love to spend each time with your friends, to drink, eat and fun. It is the main reason that the bar cum resto is the first love for the party lovers.

Ambiance for food lovers and party

Perhaps your want to reverse life with the refreshing hangout then you will have the Clandestine Backroom and the bar. Or, if single, you may find out some good friends from the crowd.  While the space of PDT is not at all huge comparing to other restaurants but its arrangement may seem to be goofy in crowds but people love to hang out in the self-made comfy space.

The retro addition includes with the small wooden tables with metal chairs. Nothing extra-ordinary except the dim lights hanging from the ceiling of the  rooms. The ambiance is mostly prone to darkness, this is always amazing those food lovers who want to hang on as if no one is watching you at all. Simply ordinary shutter down corner for the bar, it is always the same around the clock. Space will keep you far distant from the world till the time you are in and on with your laughter and drinks.

Eatery for eaters

Not just bars, or for crowds, but those are foodies that can explore the dishes that are influenced by the Indian cuisines. Perhaps if you want some crispy coated chickens  “Squid Pro Quo” that can be the best treatment for your hungry belly. Different flavors of Mojitos or cocktails with the signature recipes. The classy combination of the old monk with the amaretto mixed with the coffee bitter amazing smell of the applewood.

Similarly, various, signature cocktails are in the notes of their menus which can be a part of your favorite or trial drinks.

The cuisines are mostly inclined to fast food, so trendy cocktails or mojitos select anything from the bar and boost up yourself for the upcoming hectic days.

Space is disconnected from the outer world, and so the PDT has kept its secret in Mumbai for food lovers. The place is secret, no one will find any sign of the presence of such a resto-bar. Except for the signage of a paan shop with a Graffiti of a man with a wide curvy mustache that indicates the entrance of Please don’t tell resto-bar in Mumbai.

Perhaps it is convenient for the regular visitors who have the print reader but for newcomers, you have to dial 5 from the vintage PCO booth for booking of a table.

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Film: “Phata Poster Nikla Hero”; Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz and Padmini Kolhapure; Writer-Director:  Rajkumar Santoshi; Rating: **1/2

Let’s get one thing straight. This isn’t what you want to see a super-gifted filmmaker like Rajkumar Santoshi do when he gets together with a talented star-actor like Shahid Kapoor.

But what to do? Everyone wants a good laugh! It makes us forget about the troubles outside. Never mind the trouble that humour seems to encounter on screen each time someone makes a comedy.

To his credit, Santoshi deftly delivers the dynamics of drollery. No two ways about it. Unlike last week’s lewd laughter in “Grand Masti”, “Phata Poster Nikla Hero” (PPNH) avoids vulgarity like the plague.

Dirty word plague….sorry wordplay is firmly eschewed. What we get is an earthy robust over-accentuated tribute to Salman Khan’s Chulbul Pandey act from “Dabangg”, with Shahid Kapoor stepping into the khaki uniform with the same wonky elan as our dear Chulbul Khan.

Shahid has confessed it is easy to play a Salman Khan fan. The young actor who has so far not revealed his comic chops and has in fact shown dramatic synergy to be his forte, pulls out all stops to play an imposter cop, a role that makes him a Chulbul Pandey twice-over because Salman’s cop-act was underlined as a spoof in the first place.

So what we get in PPNH is a khaki-clad clown impersonating a cop who is actually impersonating Salman Khan in “Dabangg”.

Does that make sense? Even if it doesn’t, it’s just fine. Don’t sweat over it. This is not one of Santoshi’s seriously-intended films. For that, please refer to this wonderful director’s “Lajja” or “Halla Bol”. And if you are looking for hardcore gut-spilling action, go to Santoshi’s Deol-driven juggernauts “Ghayal” and “Ghatak”.

Come to think of it, PPNH is not even an all-out zany comedy of errors like Santoshi’s ‘Andaz Apna Apna’. So what is it? After painful pondering over the over-punctuated parodic material in PPNH, I’d say it’s a mongrelized mirth machine. A sort of “Dabangg” mated with Santoshi’s last very successful comedy “Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani” which evidently taught Santoshi a lesson: farcical frivolity and lengthy titles translate into big bucks.

“Phata Poster…” gives poster-boy Shahid Kapoor a custom-built opportunity to get seriously comic. He digs deep into the very slim plot, ferreting out meager meat from the skimpy material. I must think that Shahid has a ball doing the droll act for the doll Ileana d’Cruz who abandons her serious sari-clad audacious wife’s role in “Barfi!” to play the kind of “social worker” who brings a bad name to all charity work.

Didn’t Katrina play a similar busybee’s role in Santoshi’s “Ajab Prem…”? Didn’t Ranbir do the goofy Chaplin-meets-Kondke act for the commodious camera in that film? Shahid seems comfortable doing the irrepressible comic impresario. But he’s far more at home in the more sensible sober scenes he shares with his screen-mom Padmini Kolhapure, who looks too young to play Shahid’s mom. But then at least her talent is being aired.

Come to think of it – everyone in this over-the-top comedy seems to be in it for the sake of getting into a massy mode. The art direction is kitschy. The camera wallows in the carnival mood. In the endeavour to enroll enthusiasm into the rom-com, the film succeeds. But be warned: the writing is repetitive. The scenes all end in exclamation marks and italics… like an essay by a schoolboy who is out to impress his favourite teacher. The humour jumps out of the screen like an eager 5-year old brat which must get your attention at any cost.

If you think Shahid is one of the more interesting star-actor’s of the current generation, then PPNH is a frenetically fashioned farce fest with excessive energy oozing out of every saturated pore. Shahid’s songs and dances, especially the zanily unpredictable “Agal bagal” number are the highlight of the humour-hamper. And that’s not such a good thing. Shahid gets to share camera space with some accomplished actors like Saurabh Shukla, Mukesh Tiwari, Darshan Jariwala and Sanjay Mishra. And that’s a good thing.

At least we are ensured that the slender pretext for laughter is bolstered by hefty actors.

Oh yes, and the real Salman Khan shows up.

IANS

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