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They work as a stressbuster for many of us. Take any funny Hindi movie, for instance, Andaz Apna Apna, your mood will be uplifted as soon as you watch Aamir Khan and Salman Khan's slapstick comedy.

The movie managed to reunite Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, and Peter Graves for another round of laughs, except this time, the gang flew into trouble on a spaceship headed for the Moon.

There is no such difficulty with “Funny Girl.” The end of the movie, seemingly in a long single take, is a bravura stroke, a gorgeous piece of showing off, that makes one intensely ...