I am back which means that there is a new round of 'philum' review :) and the privileged movie is ....well..the title of this post should have been self-explanatory. Apologies for the buffonery but that's what my mood is since last night (10/21/2009) when I watched 'All the Best' at Hollywood Theaters in Irving, TX.
The last movie that I watched at a cinema hall was Kaminey (Aug 2009) with my parents who were visiting us. Indeed as is the case, we reached there 10 mins before the movie started and by that time the theater was 90% full and we had to watch it from the 3rd row :(. Well...but that's the past but getting back to the present....
Let's set the expectations straight...I am not going to give you the story in details since you can find that by just doing a search for the movie name in a search engine. But this is what I thought about the movie --
Expectations had sky rocketed from the Ajay Devgan/Rohit Shetty combo post their alliance with Golmaal, Sunday and Golmaal Returns. A bit of trivia here which not many people might know :) -- AD and RS have been friends since AD's first film Phool Aur Kaante which was 1991. Actually Rohit Shetty's first film was called Zameen (2003) with Ajay and Abhishek based on the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane which was a good action flick. Zooming into 2009, the very interesting thing that struck me before the release of the movie was that both RS and AD in their interviews said that they were pretty confident about this movie. They had made sure that there were no under the belt jokes and in every interview assured us that this is a complete family entertainer. So is it as they had promised us....Hell YES is what I can say after watching it. On the way to work yesterday I mentioned about this movie to Manjari (my wife) who said that we could go and watch it in the theater with our daughter who is 4 who seems to be a fan of bollywood naach gaana along with our 11 month old boy. Hmmm....somehow we were confident that our boy could make it thru the movie and YES he did by eating Popcorn, sleeping for sometime, drinking milk and looking at the audience in the hall laughing. We did not see any problem showing this movie to our kids! Thanks to RS for making a clean entertainer.
About the movie now -- The highlight of this movie is Sanjay Dutt able backed by everyone else. Almost all characters in this film were properly sketched out and with the only purpose of creating confusion and chaos in a very positive and effective way. I felt the role for Mugdha Godse was really short. Let's look at them real quick:
1. The mute 'Tobu' Johnny Lever (I think he is a welcome addition to the RS camp) who has a very interesting way of communicating
2. The 'aaya' Ashwini Kalsekar who speaks hindi in a South Indian accent
3. The 'RGV' Sanjay Mishra who brings the house down with his dialogs as well as 'just chill chill''
4. The 'dhondu' a typical Marathi character played by the lovable Atul Parchure who asks RGV his last name and when he hears 'Vakavle' he asks if it is 'Waakavle' (Marathi stuff here)
5. The 'muhawara giving' Asrani
6. The 'secretary' Mukesh Tiwari who has a hangover of his love from Golmaal series
7. The 'translator' Vijay Patkar who creates sentences from the clinking of a spoon and glass
The whole audience was in splits from start to the end. Sanjay Dutt is very lovable, Ajay seems to be getting his comic timing right, Bipasha looks good and Fardeen seems to excel in such supporting roles.
Songs do not seem to hamper the proceedings: The title track at the start, a unique stunt 'propose' by Ajay song, the Dil Kare and then Kyun do not seem out of track and simply flow along with the stories. RS seems to have realized this at Golmaal Returns which simply had 2 songs in addition to the title track. Here he goes one up above David dhawan who still thinks songs (even though out of place should be a part of his movies).
Disclaimer: If you think 'moronic playfulness is bad' and you'd rather be uptight then I don't think you will be able to enjoy this movie. I remember of a chapter in school which said 'Jeevanath Poorkhel chi gharaj asate'. If you do not agree with that view....there is a good chance you will not like this movie. If you want to leave you brains at home or in the office and just go and have FUN UNLIMITED then this is your ticket! As usual, please do not think and come up with why and what...that takes away the fun from such movies. Again if you think the scenes are very silly then surely yes they are and that is what the intent is and mostly it makes you laugh.
BTW....my only complaint about such movies is that before I get done laughing on a dialog or a scene the next one strikes and I am unable to savor that scene since I get hooked on the next comic scene/dialog. But I am not complaining with RS: Keep it coming our way...so what's next All the Best 2 or Golmaal 3? :) :)
Paisa Wasool, Family entertainer with loads of lively moments! Go for it!
- Koustubh
