LOT OF ICING, BUT WHERE'S THE CAKE??

MOVIE: Golmaal Returns
DIRECTOR: Rohit Shetty
CAST: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Tushar Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Arshad Warsi, Shreyas Talpade, Celina Jaitley




MTV Fully Faltoo has spoofed a few recent classics into complete disasters. But they have off late become the biggest source of comic entertainment amongst the MTV watchers. One big reason these non sense spoofs have become popular is because they have spoofed the popular. All three spoofed movies: Chak De, Jodha Akbar and Taare Zameen Par are both critically and publicly acclaimed. Golmaal spoofs throughout the movie, more in the second half, and finally becomes a collection of spoof of flops like Saawariya and Tashan. They continued to spoof Black and Munnabhai MBBS here also like in the first part.

The comic element was there. The dialogue writing was very nice and some were as fresh as a daisy and really really funny. Apt lines like, "Horny ko kaun taal sakta hai" and "Shaq What the.." made the crowd laugh aloud. Also some not so innovative and long heard jokes were repeated like the one on the secretary and personal secretary. Amongst all the comedy and entertainment, you slowly start realising that theres no story actually...

Basically, Devgan is a sex obsessed male(tharki) and Kareena is a K-serial freak, doubtful wife(as she should be). Amrita Arora is Devgan's sister and Tushar is Kareena's brother. They all live in the same house. Amrita Aroras love interest is a cop played by Arshad Warsi. Shreyas Talpade comes for a job to Devgan and Celina Jaitley is Talpades love interest.

One night under strange circumstances, a murder occurs and the same night Devgan had to spend a night with Celina under forceful circumstances. So the whole movie is about how he produces the whereabouts of his not being there that night and also how he proves to the police that he is not the murderer. The movie gets over dramatic at times and is a "comedy-jerker" Slowly towards the end they lose grip over the story and the movie heads to a poor finish.

Like is the trend in all comedy movies these days, the climax brings together all the characters. Its very important to make this collection believable. I think this movie does well here to bring all the characters together for the climax. I guess amongst recent flicks the best climax was that in the 2003 Hungama by Priyadarshan. But unfortunately the climax is sheer nonsense. Over dramatic and not really funny. Also there was a song prior to the climax with lots of special effects which was completely unnecessary.

Clearly, this is a collection of relatively good jokes punched into a two and a half hour movie with a ten minute story. This reflects the dangerous tendency in comedy movie makers of Bollywood. They go ahead with a script without perfecting it and just punch good jokes and promote it well to make it a hit. Comedy movies should have a very strong script which should have a strong message and should have excellent dialogues and jokes. The dialogues and jokes are the icing though which are meaningless without the strong base of the script. Golmaal Returns makes a lot of icing here, but no cake...no story....no message. So like many other names like Sunday, Phir Hera Pheri, Bhagam Bhaag and also for that matter the Golmaal 1, this flick too gets thrown into the nonsense bin....Phew! Golmaal!!