Minions (2015)

Hindi movies have had a long history of brutally sidelining and ignoring its supporting cast, it is just the protagonists (Hero and Heroine) that matter, rest are expendable, hero’s sister is there to be raped, their father and brothers are there to be killed, and mother to be blind. Comedians have a parallel track rather than them being an integral part of the story. We have never bothered about them till date, so what has changed?

To some extent there have been two important turning points in contemporary Hindi cinema which have actually given some importance to these much deserving character roles, first being, Paresh Rawal’s role in ‘Hera Pheri’, which not only gave much acclaim to the versatile actor, but also for the first time made a supporting character more loved one than the leading actors, and secondly the entry of Amithabh Bachhan in supporting roles, which made film makers write specific roles for him. What followed was a string of talented character artistes making it big in this industry.

Similarly there have been two recent events in Hollywood, where some supporting characters got so much admiration from fans that they got themselves their own private movie. First being ‘Penguins of Madagascar’ and second being movie in question ‘Minions’. Both animation movies I must add.

People who have watched ‘Despicable Me’ - I and II, will swear that the best thing about them were Minions. However even for people who haven’t watched the previous movies there is no problem while watching this movie as this is a spinoff cum prequel to those two movies.

First things first, to make a movie where the language spoken by title characters can’t be  understood by people is a problem, you can understand only a few of their words like, ‘thank you’, ‘bob’ and of course ‘banana’, however while watching the movie you never feel the need to understand what they are saying, and that adds to the charm of the characters and movie. You don’t get what they are saying but you laugh your lungs out during most of the time. This movie has scenes which will bring the house down with laughter.

The story of the movie is about a tribe of Minions whose sole purpose of existence is to find a baddest (intentional spelling mistake) villain and serve as his/her henchman. Do they succeed in doing so make the rest of the movie.

I have been waiting about six months for this movie, so when the choice came between watching this movie or much appreciated ‘Bahubali’, I made the tough call, and never regretted it for a minute; to tell you the truth, I was felling down and low for a couple of days and I desperately needed something crazy and hilarious, which exactly it was, rather than going for an action packed drama I chose the idiotic yet adorable, and cute as hell Minions. People are going to become fan of ‘Bob’ after watching this movie that I can guarantee.

If you are a minion fan than this is a must watch movie for you, if not, then watch this movie and become a fan. Go Bananas.

Rating ***1/2.