Title: Golmaal Returns

Vital Stats:

Length : Approx 146 minutes.
Starring: Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Shreays Talpade, Amrita Arora
Director: Rohit Shetty.

Describe the movie in one word:

Plot: Kareena Kapoor is a highly and stupidly suspicious wife who is so influenced by the daily vomit of soap on TV that she continuously doubts her husband Ajay Devgan. Amrita Arora is Ajay's sister who lives with them and so does Tusshar Kapoor who is Kareena's brother. One fateful evening Ajay gets stuck on a yacht with Celina while trying to save her from some goons. When he returns the next day he is faced with the relentless fire of Kareena's AK 47 of typical "shakki biwi". Not willing to cause too much fuss he lies about spending the night with an imaginary friend of his. Kareena however doesn't let go so easily and actually writes to that imaginary friend on his imaginar address to confirm the story. Ajay gets to know of this and in panick brings in Shreyas Talpade (a new employee in his firm) as his imaginary friend home. Things turn nasty when a real person with that imaginary name turns up who lived at that imaginary address! To complicate things further a colleague of Ajay's who never got along with him ends up dead on the same night Ajay went missing. The muder investigation is headed by Arshad Warsi who is a police inspector and is in love with Amrita Arora and hates Ajay Devgan! Now Ajay must sort out this mess otherwise Arshad would happily pack him off to gaol!




My Psychobabble: A set of funny sequences thrown together to form a mildly amusing collage. This is as best as I can do to describe this movie. I hadn't gone in to this movie with great expectations which kinda helped as I was not at least disappointed. I am not sure if you know but the supposed "story" of this movie is almost a complete rip off of an excellent old movie titled "Aaj ki Taaza Khabar". That movie my dear readers was brilliant, a true laugh riot and an excellent comedy of errors. If you have not seen it yet I suggest you do try and get your hands on a copy of it. All the effort will be worth it.

Back to this one, there is just so much that is wrong with this movie starting from its premise. Why in the name of God do Ajay and Celina spend their night on the yacht is a freaking mystery. This is 2008, they have cell phones can they not call someone to their help? Assuming that their cell phones don't work, when they can walk "to" the yacht why can they not walk from it to get help? There is nothing stopping them is there? Oh I can go on and on and on with the mistakes in the movie and the shocking "the audience won't give shit(e) about the logic as long as they can laugh" attitude of the directors but then there is no point of it. However all being said the director has made sure that the occasional laughter does keep coming and the audience doesn't really get bored. One thing that is truly applaud able in the movie is the often subtlety of humor. Something even as small as the name of a character brings a smile to your face when the movie refers to the name in a certain context. Those parts of the movie are simply brilliant!



The characters in the movie are all completely unreal and are played so by the actors. Kareena has broken her previous records of the limits of disgust, Ajay Devgan is mediocre, Celina is insignificant and stupid, Amrita Arora is a waste of movie reel and Shreyas Talpade is just one of the pockmarks on the face of the movie infected with the chicken pox of stupidity. The two characters who shine throughout the movie and have been sadly underplayed are Arshad Warsi and surprisingly Tushar Kapoor! Not only have they acted well their characters are probably the most interesting in the movie. I especially like what Tushar does at the very end of the movie (which I shall not reveal here as I don't want to include spoilers). As for Arshad Warsi, this guy is truly a gem of an actor. Though the character he plays is slightly sadistic in nature but the way Arshad has played the character you cannot help but simply laugh your but* off! Sharman Joshi was seriously missed. His character in the first one was a great laugh.

Verdict: Definitely not a must watch but certainly not a boring one. If you have had one of those weeks where the stress and the pressure was just too much then you might want to go and catch this one as the movie will certainly give you some great laughs! Please just do not try and make any sense of the movie...you have been warned!