Half Ticket

Half Ticket (1962) : Brief Review -

Copies half of the Hollywood formula and gives FULL Entertainment of its own. I remember watching the 1942 Billy Wilder comedy "The Major and the Minor," in which the beautiful blonde, Ginger Rogers, pretends to be a minor girl because she only has half the money to buy a ticket. I could have never imagined a male actor doing that in Hindi cinema. Kishore Kumar, a chameleon in his own league, did it for Indian audiences. Besides that half-ticket formula, this Kalidas' comedy has not been much inspired or copied; rather, it gave a lot to others to copy. Remember that scene in Sholay (1975), when Jay (Amitabh Bachchan) tarnishes the image of Veeru in front of Maasi? Kishore Kumar did that 13 years before Big B. You might have hurt this dialogue in many movies over the years: "Mein pagal nahi hu, Mera bas dimag kharab hai." It came from here, I believe. We have seen the villain chasing the hero throughout the film for a piece of jewelry (sometimes drugs, documents, or some other element), and they get involved in too many messy situations. Half Ticket goes bonkers with that thing. We have two of the best funny songs of all time, "Chil Chil Chilla Ke" and "Oo Gujariya," involving the hero and villain in a chase in this movie. None of Kishore Kumar and Madhubala's romantic numbers were that good. It's shocking, but it didn't matter much. Madhubala has less to do, but whatever scenes she has, they are beautiful. Otherwise, the entire movie belongs to Kishore Kumar from start to finish. This is the most nasty Kishore Kumar could get in a movie. So many hilarious dialogues, so many funny moments, and some iconic comedy scenes-Half Ticket has full entertainment loaded for you. Kalidas has made an "epic" comedy, which, barring that Hollywood idea, I believe, is a cult classic! I don't mind if anyone's keeping it on the "top 25 comedies of all time" list.

RATING - 7.5/10*

By - #samthebestest.

I bet u wouldn't feel disappointed a bit after watching this movie.

HALF TICKET is India's NO.1 Comedy Movie of Hindi Cinema . It was released during those days when majority of viewers like to watch " Rona-Dona" i.e Serious movies. They had poor sense of humour in those days.

Kishore Da marvellous . Even hard core fan of Kishore da as a singer would hardly know that the song he sang " AAKE SEEDHI LAGI DIL PE KATARIYA" in the movie (for both male and female voice) , the male voice played back by Kishore Da for Actor Pran was typically sang in actor Pran's accent and still not even managed to sing both sexes voice but did the history.

This makes Kishore Da ahead of any Great singer- He is Just Versatile , immaculate. He is EVEREGREEN actor & Singer. Besides this he was great Director/ Producer, Music Director, Lyricist ,Script writer and a Great Yoodler.

This is One of the BEST Crazy Kishore Kumar Comedy Classic ,anyone can Hardly Miss.Honestly i could Not sit for a Single Moment without laughing at the complete comedy that the maverick called Kishore Kumar bought.Anyone who loves comedy should take it as a MUST MUST Watch...this is Pure Genius of Kishore Da,who can go such wild in his antics & remain so comical that creates such awesome laugh riots possible,which r so impossible to control..Lovely Madubala & Multifaceted Kishore Kumar have the role of their life in this unparalleled comedy classic,with superlative songs,which makes it timeless & legendary to this day..10/10.

Every body who has seen any comedy movie of Kishore Kumar would like it and this movie arguably tops all the other movies in a sense that KK is pretending to be grown up with a kids brain (Munna) in this movie and still flirting successfully with the beauty queen Madhubala. The theme itself is worth a pot of gold besides all the songs in this movie are funny and Hit. Watch it, you won't regret it though the climax was grossly messed up.