Trouble begins when the three Lakshmi Narayans land up in the same hotel and their tasks - and identities - get mixed up.

Lakshmi one (Paresh Rawal) sells lingerie in a car, Lakshmi two (Sunil Shetty) is an executive with a mean boss who wants to buy a car, Lakshmi three (Tusshar Kapoor) is a small time Bhai on his first assignment as a hitman. The rest is one long comedy of errors caused by three people having the same name, Lakshmi Narayan. One Two Three however lacks both the finesse and the humour and you manage a smile only rarely: when Sanjay Mishra imitates vintage villain Jeevan. Diehard fans refused to give up their tryst with the harried common man (Pankaj Kapoor) who tries to wade through familiar corruption and red tape, despite the advent of the sundry comedy shows and the barrage of stand-up comedians.

Ashwani Dheer's popular satire on babudom and bureaucracy, Office Office, has quite a fan following. Now this is quite a disappointment, coming from a director who has already proved his forte with comedy on the small screen. So are you ready for a bagful of stringy things being passed around a bunch of oddball characters and wonder what's so funny about an itsy bitsy piece of cloth. But to booby trap all your laughs on D-cup is neither chic, nor funny. Krazzy! For surely, hooking a few laughs on this brand of female apparel may have been one of Bollywood's oldest tricks. Yes please, you feel like crying out on behalf of the harassed viewer who is saddled with a film that shows, mentions, waves, peddles, juggles female underwear in the name of cinema for the sake of comedy. Please dad, call it lingerie, not bra-panty, insists a harassed son to his father.

One two three hindi movie rating