Filmmaking is an art, no doubt. However, filmmakers sometimes get carried away with their creative license. The result: hilarious blunders that introduce an accidental element of humour in their films! It’s too late to correct the errors once the film has already been screened to hordes of audience members, and evidence of their oversight (or over-enthusiasm) is documented for all to witness. We take a look at five bloopers that have stayed with us due to their ingenuity, simplicity or plain old stupidity. Come, have a laugh with us!

Secret agent… or detergent?

When you think of bloopers, the first one that comes to mind is found in Jarrar Rizvi’s Agent 009 (1982). No, it’s not the film’s title that is the blooper (although we wish Rizvi had reconsidered), but a laughable assassination scene.  As actor Qavi Khan lay asleep in a night suit, his assassin (also Qavi Khan in a double role, but dressed as a pirate complete with an eye-patch) approaches his bedroom. The two Qavi Khans battle it out and the Qavi Khan in the night suit kills the ‘pirated’ version, and that’s when things get interesting. He hears the assassin’s friends coming up the stairs and just guess what he does… he swaps attire with the dead man and becomes the pirate (complete with the eye-patch) and leaves the dead man on the floor in the night suit. Where did the blood stains, tears and damaged eye patch of the slain man go? Nobody knows… and it’s not like the surviving Qavi Khan was a super-powered Agent 009!

Mission Implausible

Just four years after Tom Cruise did the amazing ‘Into The Vault’ stunt in Mission Impossible (1996), Pakistan recreated it with an unlikely Ethan Hunt wannabe… filmstar Meera Jee! In Iqbal Kashmiri’s Ghar Kab Aao Ge (2000), Meera and Sana climb down into a bank ala Tom Cruise, aided in their stunt by Ahsan Khan who was holding the rope on the other end. The two ladies manage to steal a floppy disk from one of the secure computers, only to display the contents on an iMac G3 Computer. A G3 doesn’t have a floppy drive, so the exercise was wasted and Tom Cruise was copied without any need!

Oh Damme!

That very same year, Syed Faisal Bukhari made No Paisa No Problem and the movie shamed Jean Claude Van Damme big time. Not that he was in the film or anything but his trademark kick was used in such a way that had he seen it, he would have kicked himself! It so happened in the film that Fakhr-e-Alam’s briefcase was snatched by na maloom afraad in broad daylight at I.I.Chundrigar Road. While they were escaping on a bike, Humayun Saeed pursued them on foot, crossed the Clifton Bridge before them (wow, speed of a leopard, I presume!) and kicked them so hard that they landed at Sea View the next morning! And Van Damme announced his retirement from kickboxing…

Faisal Bukhari as the perennial funnyman!

In his latest flick Sultanat, the same No Paisa No Problem director showed that when he has money, he has no problem. That’s why the producer Aslam Bhatti is the hero who can be both Rambo and Romeo when he wants to be. He can shoot people with his eyes both open and shut and the best part is that he can also shoot a person approaching behind him without even having to aim! With so much maar dhaar keeping him occupied, how does he have time to also be a Romeo? Well, he proposes to his girlfriend’s friend after the former (played by Indian actress Achint Kaur) leaves him minutes before midnight, thus missing the fireworks he has planned for the proposal to be. Thank God for the friend, otherwise he might have proposed to the person operating the fireworks!

As twisted as a Jalaibee, indeed!

And now it’s turn for much-anticipated crime caper Jalaibee to entertain us… with its unintentional comic elements. For starters, who calls to make a ransom demand from a PTCL number? A landline is a no-no, even by the standards of an animated fantasy flick and this one was a full-length feature film that was supposed to be rooted in reality! Then there was the burning car; I have never heard anyone mention that his overheated car blew up after the engine caught fire … until Jalaibee arrived. Mind-blowing, I must say!