Yunus Sajawal's screenplay runs logic to the ground in search of laughs. His performance comes unstuck owing the sheer inanity of the writing. Here, too, he does pretty much the same, but the two roles that he is stuck with are awfully insipid. Hindi movie fans know Ranveer Singh as an actor who can bring a great deal of natural gusto to a role. As for Pooja Hegde and Jaqueline Fernandez, the less said the better. Even a proven performer like Sanjay Mishra is saddled with a role that that can only get on one's nerves. The lead actor tries hard - way too hard - and the effort shows. And the acting all around is consistently substandard. Its 'comic' gags are pathetically unfunny. The film's gaudy colour palette makes real backdrops look like painted ones. Old Hindi movie songs constitute the spine of the Cirkusbackground music. But with no real imagination on display, Cirkus demonstrates what is amiss with contemporary Hindi films that are aimed at giving a mass audience its money's worth. It makes a song and dance about the debt that it owes to comedy movies of yore. The film has one foot planted firmly in the past, which by itself is not such a bad thing. The only thing that is truly comical about Cirkus is its unmitigated ineptitude. It does neither the medium nor the genre any justice. It is a mind-numbing film that would have done the world a favour by not advancing beyond the script stage. The golmaal is that the vapid caper film goes round and round in circles as it recycles exceedingly trite tropes, shoves them into a garish and turgid package and leaves a bunch of actors led by the effervescent Ranveer Singh (in a double role) with no chance at all of rising above the muddle. What happens next forms the rest of the film.Producer-director Rohit Shetty's latest shot at slapstick comedy - a genre that he has had a great deal of success with over the years - is cinema's equivalent of a trash can. From hereon begins a mad ride as Roy # 2 and Joy # 2 encounter a gang of thieves and several Ooty residents who claim to know them very well though this is their first visit to Ooty. Rai Bahadur sends his trusted servant, Prem (Anil Charanjeett) to follow them and find out if Roy # 2 is indeed married to Mala. Roy # 2 and Joy # 2 decide to go to Ooty for important work. Her father Rai Bahadur (Sanjay Mishra) happens to see Roy # 1 with Mala in Ooty and concludes that Roy # 2 is cheating on Bindu. Roy # 2 is dating Bindu (Jacqueline Fernandez). Meanwhile, Roy # 2 (Ranveer Singh) and Joy # 2 (Varun Sharma) are based in Bangalore. But since she's unable to conceive, she is keen to adopt though Roy # 1 is against it. Roy # 1 is married to Mala (Pooja Hegde), who is desperate to have a child. Audiences are surprised to see that the current passes through his body and he doesn't get electrocuted. Roy is known as the 'electric man' as he is able to perform electricity-based stunts. Roy # 1 (Ranveer Singh) and Joy # 1 (Varun Sharma) run the Jubilee Circus after the death of their foster parents. Interestingly, both name their adopted children Roy and Joy, after Roy and Joy Jamnadas! The story then moves 30 years ahead. The other set is adopted by the Shenoys of Bangalore. by an Ooty couple who run the Jubilee Circus. As part of an experiment, he separates two sets of twins and hands them over to two families for adoption. Roy Jamnadas (Murli Sharma) and Joy Jamnadas (Uday Tikekar) run the Jamnadas Orphanage. CIRKUS is the story of mistaken identity.
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