I have seen all the movies directed by Sajid Khan including the last 2 comedies, Heyy Baby and Housefull (Well I exactly didn’t remembered if I have seen them in theater or outside), and now I can guess the director just by watching the movie, if the movie is directed by Sajid Khan. He has a signature style. He didn’t have any story or plot while shooting the first scene, then on-and-on as he goes, he started writing next scenes, it means at every time he will have details of only 1 next scene of the movie, and the result - these boring and uneven so-called comedies. Housefull 2 is no different. Let’s see my sad story of watching this humorously non-humorous movie.
Once upon a time there was a boy who gave chance to a new director (let’s see his movie) but after watching he was crying instead of laughing, his friend asked him, "Hey Baby, Why are you crying, I liked the movie?" He was having an ans but he just replied, "Don’t know". Then after few more time he gave another chance to the same director, this time again the theater was housefull, but after watching the boy again started crying, and said, "I will never ever come back to cinema hall to watch this director’s movie", but again end up on the same side, and bought the ticket and watched it, it was again a disaster for him, and Maa Bhadrakali ki Kasam, that boy thought I will never ever go to cinema hall to watch Sajid Khan’s directed movie. So this sad story is having a much better plot than the movie we are talking about i.e. Housefull 2-:.
There are 2 Kapoors - Daboo, the najayaz son (Randhir Kapoor) and Chintu, the jayaz son (Rishi Kapoor) who has a long rivalry and never left even a chance to fight with each other. Daboo has a daughter Bobby (Jacqueline Fernandez), and Chintu has a daughter Heena (Asin Thottumkal), and both wanted a rich son-in-law for their daughter, but in the process, Chintu make insult of Jai’s (Shreyas Talpade) father. Jai swore to take revenge, and take help of his rich friend Jolly aka Jwala (Riteish Deshmukh), son of a billionaire JD (Mithun Chakraborty) and hence came two other kameene friends of them Max (John Abraham) and Sunny (Akshay Kumar), and he planted them in Dabbu and Chintu’s house as rich JD’s rich son - Jolly, where even Max and Sunny hate each other. Now started the comedy game of love and hate, but JD aka Jagga Daku has already fixed Jolly’s marriage with his old friend retired Ins. Batuk Patel’s (Boman Irani) daughter Parul (Shehzan Padamsee), but she is the love of dear Jai, and even Jolly love someone else JLo (Zarine Khan). Now rest is the movie of confusion, although the confusion was not so complicated and handled well as Priyadarshan usually handed.
Sajid Khan has attempted comedy with his movie "Heyy Baby", and it has some comic sequences, which actually generated laughs, but his main problem was uneven plot and screenplay. While watching movie, it came into non-existent mind of me that he never prepared a script before shooting starts, he use to write while picturising, and hence unevenness occurs. One scene you get comedy, then suddenly something else, then again some comedy, then again something else. His 2nd comedy Housefull was rarely a comedy movie, yes the confusion wala 2nd half was okay to watch once, here in his 3rd venture, the same problem props up. One scene we are getting lotpot, and suddenly came a cruise, suddenly came an island, then we are back to the place where we started, then cut to some emotional drama, then cut to comedy, then again cut to simple sweet romantic type of scenes. I was guessing in the whole movie, What was Sajid Khan thinking while making the movie, I think he was not sure what he want to made! Background score suits those drama scenes perfectly, but in comedy scene, he copied some of it, and it was mismatched. Let us talk some appreciation too, the 1st half of the film’s 1st half was mind-blowing, it was really laughable, when the movie started building plot, I was thinking in the start that may be Sajid is creating an exception here, liked the entries of all main characters, their comic timing, but then even Sajid lost his thoughts, and it looks like he was more interested in showing such a multi-starcast and not in filming his movie, or maintaining it’s consistency. 2nd half was really pathetic, Sajid start a thing, for eg he started a plot of confusion in Kapoor’s house, and when it started getting interesting, he jumps to somewhere else, even the confusion in 2nd half was short-lived, and not handled well, as the track suddenly changes to a romantic-drama one. The Kapoors - Rishi and Randhir were awesome in their roles, and it’s good to see them both together. Mithun was also good, but Boman was just passable in short-role. Heroines are there just for timepass and confusion. One of the best part of the movie were the songs "Papa to Band Bajaye", sung wonderfully by Neeraj Shridhar. The choreography was funny, liked it, and other song "Anarkali Disco Chali", sung by Sunidhi Chauhan. The beats were good (Sajid-Wajid), lyrics penned by Sameer. Johny Lever was good in his role. While watching the movie I got confused initially for Katrina look-alike Zarine Khan, and I was thinking howcome stunning Katrina becomes so fatty, but then my non-existent mind strike back, are! it’s not Katrina but the heroine of a super-flop movie ’Veer’. Some dialogues were witty, an example - When naajayaz son was saying to jayaz son, "I as born because of love, you were born because of duty!" One scene where Ranjeet was introduced (he was Sunny’s filmi father), his name was shown as Mr. Ranjeet Hawas K. Pujari. Th e Rapist (Read Therapist), vulgar, but hilarious.
OK, much said and written, now my recommendation. If you’re a die-hard Sajid Khan’s fan (unlike me), go watch it fatafat, if you don’t bother by Sajid’s other movies, go watch it, if you want to see multi-starcast (haaye allah! ek saath itne saare log!), go watch it, if you want to laugh for atleast first half hour, go watch it, if you want to see Malaika Arora Khan as Anarkali, go watch it, if you want to watch it for Akshay’s-delievered- Ranjeet’s trademark "AYE" style, go watch it, OTHERWISE, please dont go, leave it even watching at home too, because the laughs will be generated only in the theater environment, when other viewers are also laughing with you, alone in home, you’ll not laugh at any of the scene. My take 2.5/5 and a NO!
GRuchirG.
Sajid ne Band Baja diya :) I hate him!
P.S. Now I am waiting for -ve remarks from some of non-existent reviewers, and am sure of getting them :P