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I'm not as hyperbolic towards AAA. In my only full viewing I found it quite tiresome in parts, mainly because I think Aamir Khan has zero flair for comedy. If his part had been done by Govinda, I suspect I'd have found the film more fun, but then the entire production publicity hype around AAA was that two of the leading Box-Office Khans were paired up in a movie. Also I felt the film could have been pruned better, several scenes went on for too long (of course this has nothing to do with its box-office fate, we see so many poorly scripted and edited films become huge blockbusters).

But the film admittedly has solid charm in its absurd moments (I especially appreciate the character actors in this one - Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor, Viju Khote), and its fun-poking at the Bollywood formula ("Main hoon Teja, mark idhar hai", even if that had its origin in the climax of Gulzar's classy laugh-fest Angoor). While AAA may have had the bad luck of being released at a time when absurd comedies were not in season, calling it 20 years ahead of time is just our beloved Hindustani's tendency to exaggerate. In terms of flat out crazy funny I'd recommend a much older Hindi film Johar Mahmood in Hong Kong as a better alternative in a similar genre. It has its flaws of course, mainly in its bloated running time and excess of song breaks, but the part where the lead characters disguise a morgue to look like a bank, propping up corpses to play the role of bank employees is more hilarious and insane than anything Rajkumar Santoshi dreamed up for his film.

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