Half-Ticket: the mantra for laughs

If your life ever gets pressured, watch Half-Ticket and take a roller coaster ride to amazing stupidity!

Old women, young woman, men, children -- this film will make anyone laugh.

Why one laughs to such silliness one doesn't know. This film has no story at all. But it is a film which probably has the medicine to every ailment on earth!

What makes Half-Ticket different from films like Golmaal or Padosan is the fact that there is little brain power behind the events of the lives of the characters in Half-Ticket, contrary to the other two.

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How else can one explain a near 30-year-old man (played by Kishore Kumar) being thrown out of his house by his father just because he plays pranks? Or the way the son cries in front of his dead mother's photograph, who looks exactly like the son? Or even explain how this near 30-year-old man tries to prove he is a kid by simply wearing a funny dress and bending his knees in front of the railway ticket counter?

Yet, it glues you to your seat.

Half-Ticket does not boast of chart-buster numbers, but you are happy watching the songs. It does not boast of great dance numbers but one still loves the dance between Pran's associate Shammi with Kishore to steal the diamond.

It does not boast of great performances, but you wonder how Kishore Kumar could devise that style of sleeping (when he sleeps in Madhubala's house), or how he conceives the prank on the ticket collector or the office manager, where he goes for a job to, with a pack of butter or maska.

The film, does not boast of a nail-biting climax, but it is hilarious to see Kishore Kumar fight the villains on a hot-air balloon.

The love angle is weird: a mentally challenged kid with a prominent star!

Then what does the film have? It brings out the kid within us.

A dose of Half-Ticket is almost like a mantra to be a better human being.

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