Golmaal Returns Disappoints

MUMBAI: This sequel to ‘Golmaal’, directed by Rohit Shetty, boasts a massive star cast: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Celina Jaitley and Anjana Sukhani. The initial response of the public after watching the promos and looking at the huge star cast would have been something in the superlatives. However, the film utterly disappoints. It lacks script, good, laughable humour and most importantly: a plot. Although the prequel was not actually humourous either, it did not really disappoint to such an extent. It is mostly intolerable; but there are a handful of scenes that one wants to laugh at. Such no-brainer laughathons have worked quite well in the past and the audience have sunk in to that but this is something unbearable. The story of the film seems to be inspired from the 1973 flick “Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar”. There are some characters that were not required. The only actors who prove their acting prowess are Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor and mostly it was their comic interaction that is laudable. The film is about a husband Gopal (Ajay Devgan) and his Ekta Kapoor serials’ inspired, very suspicious wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor), Gopal’s sister Esha (Amrita Arora), Esha’s dumb, muted brother Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor) and Inspector Madhav (Arshad Warsi), who is madly in love with Esha. In the beginning, the film goes on with Gopal’s wife constantly accusing him of having extra-marital affairs. Gopal works in a fishing company and the story sees a twist in it when one night Gopal does not return home. He has saved an innocent girl Meera (Celina Jaitley) from some goons and they spend the night in a yacht nearby because of the bad weather. Back home, all kinds of suspicions and assumptions are being made as to what happened to Gopal. When Gopal returns the next morning, his wife, who is a hardcore fan of the saas-bahu serials, smells fish. Gopal knows it’s going to be hard to quell her suspicion and so he makes up a false story that he was with his old friend Anthony Gonsalves (Shreyas Talpade), who is his junior at work. Not believing a single word her husband says, Ekta writes to Anthony Gonsalves on a fictional address provided by Gopal. All seems well and sorted out, until the address that Ekta has written to turns out to be real. The real fun begins when the real Anthony Gonsalves appears because the fake address is true. To top that, a corpse is discovered near the place where Gopal had saved Meera. It turns out to be one of Gopal’s colleagues. Madhav, who can’t stand Gopal, accuses him of the murder. As Madhav begins his investigation, the twists and turns in the story, the sequences and the plot all seem hotch potch although one particular scene between Lucky and the fake Anthony Gonsalves is the funniest in the entire film. In the scene, Anthony learns that the girl Gopal saved was none other than Meera, Anthony’s girlfriend. Thus begins a confusion of events that leaves the viewer irritated and wondering what actually is happening. There are subtle references to the prequel ‘Golmaal’, spoofs at Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Black’ and ‘Saawariya’, Arshad Warsi’s imitation of Rani Mukherji in ‘Black’ are some of the moments that provide genuine laughter. Clearly, ‘Golmaal Returns’ strongly lacks the zing and the X factor that would capture the audience and make them want to watch it again and again. Performance-wise the actors fail to win the audience, except for Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade. The rest of the cast is mediocre and could have done much better considering their star quotients. Amrita Arora and Anjana Sukhani are ignorable while anybody could have played Celina’s part. Kareena looks super-slim and stunning. She particularly delivers well in some parts of the film. The crude dialogue is full of sexual innuendos and demeaning to women. The film drags on pointlessly, making two hours seem torturous. The climax takes the cake for stupidity. Even the music does not come up to the expectations, considering the fact that Pritam has composed the music. ‘Golmaal Returns’ can easily be given a miss. Honestly!




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