Vikram Bhatt's recent comedy Deewane Huey Paagal was about four men lusting after the same girl. That two of them played by Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal, were physically impaired, cannot be a coincidence.

It's the season of handicaps.

Even as Deepak Tijori's Tom Dick & Harry seems to have got out of a titular budge with Sohail Khan, there seems to be more trouble around the corner for this comedy about a deaf, blind and mute trio of masti -makers.

The Masti maker Indra Kumar is currently putting finishing touches to a comedy in Bangkok called Pyare Mohan where Fardeen Khan plays a blind guy and Vivek Oberoi plays a deaf dude.

The immediately interesting part of this project isn't the sudden upsurge of interest in the physically/emotionally impaired after Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Khamoshi: The Musical, Vipul Shah's Aankhen , Bhansali's Black and Nagesh Kukunoor's Iqbal, but the fact that another film Deepak Tijori's Tom Dick & Harry is also about three physically impaired heroes played by Dino Morea, Jimmy Shergil and Anuj Sawhney .

Pyare Mohan seems to be on a direct collision course with Tom Dick & Harry.

"Not really," says the super-confident leading man Dino Morea who plays the deaf Tom in Tijori's comedy of survival. "We're aware Pyare Mohan treads the same territory. But we've nothing to fear. Firstly, because I believe we've made a better film. And secondly because we're coming before them. Our release date is Jan 20. Going by the amount of fun we're having during the shoot, I can imagine how much the audience will enjoy the film."

The buzz from the sets of Tom Dick & Harry is that Dino is devastatingly funny in the film. "I'm just discovering my funny bone," he chuckles. "I'm a great prankster on the sets. I've been constantly playing pranks on all my co-stars during the film. In fact I just tied Celina Jaitley's shoe laces together. If she can't fall in love with me, she can at least fall, ha ha."

Comic camaraderie is compulsory to make a comedy work on screen, insists Dino. "We've been having a whole lot of comedies about heroes in twos and threes bumbling through life. And now we've two films about physically impaired heroes. Tom Dick & Harry never makes fun of the handicapped characters. It shows how the three of us who are deaf mute and blind use all the devices at our disposal to survive. I don't know what they're doing in Pyare Mohan. But I know we're making a sincere and funny film."