Ata Pata Laapata

Ata Pata Laapata
Movie poster for Ata Pata Laapata
Directed by	Rajpal Yadav
Produced by	Radha Yadav
Written by	Mohd. Saleem
Starring	Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Om Puri, Ashutosh Rana, Manoj Joshi, Govind Namdeo, Dara Singh, Vikram Gokhale, Vijay Raaz, and Satyadev Dubey
Music by	Original Songs: Sujeet Choubey, Amod Bhatt, Rajpal Yadav, Sukhwinder Singh Background Score: Aadesh Shrivastav
Cinematography	Arvind K
Edited by	Aseem Sinha
Release dates	2 November 2012 (2012-11-02)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Ata Pata Laapata is a 2012 Indian musical political satire film from first-time director Rajpal Yadav, who is also the main protagonist in the film. Other than Yadav, the film stars the ensemble cast of Asrani, Om Puri, Ashutosh Rana, Manoj Joshi, Govind Namdeo, Dara Singh, Vikram Gokhale, Vijay Raaz, and Satyadev Dubey. The film was produced by Yadav's wife Radha Yadav. The film was a commercial failure and panned for its weak script.

Plot

Manav Chaturvedi (Rajpal Yadav) files a police complaint of robbery where the entire house has gone missing. Chaturvedi is suspected of abolishing his own house in order to claim the insurance money. The case comes to the media's attention and soon becomes a topic of everyone's interests. Due to media pressure, authorities are forced to acknowledge the robbery. The film focuses on the loopholes of governance, bureaucracy and the attitude of people in power.

Cast

• Rajpal Yadav as Manav Chaturvedi and narrator.
• Amit Behl as Lawyer
• Asrani as Session Court Lawyer
• Om Puri
• Ashutosh Rana as Satyaprakash Chaube
• Manoj Joshi as Jagrut Jaganath
• Govind Namdeo as BMC Commissioner
• Dara Singh as S P Shastri
• Vikram Gokhale as S.P.
• Vijay Raaz as Munshiji
• Satyadev Dubey as Pagla Baba

Production

Film was Rajpal Yadav's directorial debut. He also acted as music director and contributed in screenplay and dialogue. The small budget films was produced by Radha Yadav wife of Rajpal under the Shree Naurang Godavari Entertainment Ltd. banner, which was named after Rajpal's parents.^[1][2] Sujeet Choubey, Amod Bhatt, and Sukhwinder Singh were the music directors for the film. Songs were written by Sameer and sung by Sukhwinder Singh.^[3]

Casting

The film had a huge star cast of about 175 actors, the majority of whom had no prior acting experience in films. The ensemble cast included veteran Dara Singh and Satyadev Dubey, for both of whom this was their last film.^[4][5] Both died before the release of the film.^[4]

Release

The music of the film was launched by Amitabh Bachchan on 22 September 2012.^[6] The film was originally set to release in October 2012, but its release was stayed by Delhi High Court after a local businessman MG Agarwal filed a cheating case against Rajpal Yadav. Agarwal alleged that Yadav had taken Rs. 5 crore as loan from him for the film and signed agreement with Agarwal owned Murli Projects for the music and overall production of the movie. He alleged that Yadav went ahead and independently released the music and all the cheques Yadav gave to Agarwal bounced.^[7] The film was finally released on 2 November 2012.^[4]

Reception

Film received average rating or 2.8 out of 5 on Rotten Tomatoes. The Times of India criticized the film for weak script, repetitiveness, preachiness and lack of clarity. Songs were criticized for acting only as fillers without adding anything to the story.^[8] Koimoi.com praised the film for an experimental theatre play-like story telling, casting, and performances of Ashutosh Rana and Rajpal Yadav. But it criticized the film for lack of in-synch dialogues and abrupt ending.^[9] Navbharat Times criticized the movie for being noisy, weak script and inability of Yadav to make good use of the huge star cast.^[10] Commercially the film failed at the box office.^[11]

References

External links

• Ata Pata Laapata at the Internet Movie Database