Hisaab Barabar Movie Cast/ Actors: R. Madhavan as TC Radhe Mohan Sharma, Neil Nitin Mukesh as Banker Micky Mehta, Kirti Kulhari as Inspector P. Subhash, Shaunak Duggal as Mannu, Rashami Desai as Monalisa Yadav, Manu Rishi as Dayal, Himanshu Malik as MP, Faisal Rashid as Tiwari, Rajesh Jais as Bank manager, Imran Hasnee as Shaleen Srivastava, Ishtiyak Khan as Credit card seller, Yogesh Tripathi as Kumar
Hisaab Barabar Movie Director: Ashwni Dhir
Hisaab Barabar Movie Release Date: January 24, 2025
Hisaab Barabar Movie Available On: Zee 5 OTT Platform
Hisaab Barabar Movie Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi, Tamil & Telugu
Hisaab Barabar Movie Run Time: 111 minutes
Hisaab Barabar Movie Critic Review:
Have you spared a minute to check if your bank balance has an insignificant discrepancy? Would you invest precious time and energy to make the bank accountable for Rs 27.50?
It’s precisely this common customer lethargy that makes suave and merry Micky Mehta (Neil Nitin Mukesh) make dizzy sums like Rs 20,000 crore. Small amounts that don’t tally, interest credited just a day later, inconsequential figures that account holders ignore. Micky preys on just this customer ignorance to live life like a party.
But there’s always one aam insaan whose brain works like a calculator. Senior Ticket Collector Radhe Mohan Sharma (R Madhavan) arrives laden with oranges that he generously shares with passengers. “I don’t touch stolen goods,” huffs passenger P Subhash (Kirti Kulhari). His enthusiastic reply about taking oranges to balance what the fruit seller owed him as change, delightfully introduces Radhe’s quirk. Debits and credits must tally. He’d once rejected a marriage proposal too because the girl was weak in Maths.
It’s a good old Hrishikesh Mukherjee kind of vibe as Radhe the protagonist is a meticulous wannabe Chartered Accountant who keeps hisaab to the last dot. He wouldn’t dream of rounding off his daily deposits of penalties from passengers.
Writer-director Ashwni Dhir takes the mundane subject of an ordinary man with an extraordinary ability to drive home the message of how unwittingly the poor, the middle class and others fill the coffers of an unscrupulous bank owner.
“Multiply say, just Rs 10 that’s missing from your account, by two crore customers,” urges Radhe as he scribbles the numbers to a small and curious bunch of onlookers at the food court of a mall. What Micky siphons off is enormously unimaginable. But those tiny amounts don’t matter even to the smallest of account holders.
It’s only when Radhe doggedly follows it up with Do Bank, even complaining to the police, the court and the RBI, that Micky Mehta sniffs big trouble.
Keeping it light-hearted, Ashwni casts Radhe as a cheerful TC, friendly at work, and a great single dad to son Mannu (Shaunak Duggal). Although the theme is a serious economic crime of Vijay Mallya proportions, the storytelling is warm and full of quick smiles. Like the pesky credit card peddler (Ishtiyak Khan) at the entrance of Do Bank. Or the bank manager (Rajesh Jais) with his chirpy refrain, “If you’re satisfied, tell others. If you’re not, come to us.” Dayal (Manu Rishi Chadhha), the shady, neta type shielding Micky, even abetting his escape a la Mallya when the going gets hot, also manages to amuse with his ‘Marvayenge‘ line.
The brewing romance between the pleasant TC and the lady passenger who didn’t accept his orange, has likeable sparks. ‘Main vaari vaari soniye’ in the BG falls pleasantly on the ear.
The father-son moments with another BG number when dad has to rush kid to the potty while out bowling and the washroom attendant short-changing him with a toffee instead of change, make statements without getting ponderous.
Ruthless Micky too is a happy, champagne-sipping fellow. In one scene, he dashes into his car inexplicably on the road, only to emerge with a red coat to dance to ‘Do Do Do Do Bank’ when he’s actually threatening Radhe to back off.
Some of the lines are also easy. Like likening small scams to a big sweater that someone else is knitting out of your wool.
An occasional dog and pup bringing in cuteness, a neighbouring couple with its own input of mild mirth and the coming together of various aam people to foil Micky’s final escape, add up to a relatable social show.
All the performances are spirited. After R Madhavan took the applause last year as the devil in Shaitaan, he does the opposite and makes the doggedly hisaab-crazy TC endearing. Neil Nitin Mukesh is back, perfect as the flamboyant and good-looking meanie.
It isn’t easy to sell a serious message but well done, Ashwni Dhir.
Hisaab Barabar Movie – Watch Or Not?: Recommended as a relaxing family watch for the weekend.
Hisaab Barabar Movie Review Score Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (i.e. 3.5/5)
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