Off late, I have become somewhat turned off by comedy movies because most of them end up being loud, cheap and try to be oversmart. However, Golmaal Returns is a movie with the right sense of humour to tickle your funny bone. After a long time I`ve actually laughed so much. It`s not very easy to make the viewers laugh and that too for 2 and a half hours, throughout but this one actually does that...it makes you laugh non-stop.
The movie is about Gopal (Ajay Devgan) who has an important designation in a fishery business and is married to Ekta (Kareena Kapoor). True to her name, Ekta is obsessed with ’K’ serials and thinks that her life is also as spicy as the soap operas she watches on the idiot box. Ekta`s mute brother, Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor) and Gopal`s sister, Esha (Amrita Arora) also live with the married couple in the same house. Ekta, following the fottsteps of her ideals Tulsi, Parvathi, etc. of the ’K’ serials is always very suspicious about her husband. One night, Gopal comes across Mira (Celina Jaitley) who is being harassed by a bunch of guys. Gopal rescues Mira and takes her to a cruise. Menawhile tha same night, Gopal`s junior assistant is murdered.
The next day when Gopal returns back home, he tells Ekta that he had gone out with his friend Anthony Gonsalves and produces a false address upon being asked about Anthony`s residence by Ekta. Ekta writes a letter on the address asking Anthony to meet her if he really exists. In the meanwhile, Inspector Madhav (Arshad Warsi) starts his investigation on the murder of Gopal`s junior assistant and Madhav is also Gopal`s sister`s boyfriend. One day, when Laxman Prasad (Shreyas Talpade) goes to meet Gopal for a job at his office, Gopal asks him to pretend to be Anthony Gonsalves. Little does Laxman Prasad knows that the girl whom Gopal was with in the cruise that night was his own girlfriend. On the other hand, Inspector Madhav after investigations of Gopal`s assistant`s murder case starts suspecting Gopal of the murder. Lots of confusion and humour follows subsequently...
The USP of Golmaal Returns is its humour. The situations and dialogues of the movie are hilarious. Dialogues such as ’shaque!...what the ’, ’mein toh isko nishabd samjha par yeh toh darling nikla’, ’yeh hairstylist hai na is hi liye har baat trim karke bolta hai’ and many other witty dialogues of this kind will surely result in bursts of laughter within the cinema hall. Also certain scenes such as the one where Kareena thinks that Ajay has died, where the real Anthony Gonsalves has a fight with Ajay, Tusshar and Shreyas, where Anjana talks to Tusshar for the first time, where the three guys (Ajay, Tusshar and Shreyas) dress up as girls in a shopping mall and also the climax will bring the house down. Also, the various spoofs and jokes about certain Bollywood movies, such as Saawariya, Om Shanti Om, Black, etc. is hilarious. The scene where Arshad Warsi comes out of a ladies toilet dressed up like Rani Mukerji from BLACK is really funny. Also, the character played by **Ashwini Kalsekar that of Munni is very comical where she copies Rani Mukerji from Saawariya (I likes:). Not does she act exactly like Rani but even looks a lot like her. Other than that, the music of the film is just passable and thank God there are not too much songs in the movie but whenever they appear they seem to be unwanted, especially ’Tha Kar Ke’ is seriously misplaced but it doesn`t really matter because otherwise the film is quite entertaining.
As far as performances are concerned, each and every actor does his best and excels. Ajay Devgan and Shreyas Talpade have excellent comic timing and both these actors who are generally known for their serious performances seem to be equally at ease with comedy. Tusshar Kapoor who is otherwise criticized for almost each and every performance of his does an excellent job this time, playing the role of a mute guy with perfection. It seems that only this type of role suits him and not the ones where he tries to be a stud.No wonder he was begging the director at the end to cast him in Golmaal 3 too :) Jokes apart, he does a wonderful job this time around. Arshad Warsi is his usual self ; entertaining and spontaneous but doesn`t get as much scope as the rest of the male actors. Kareena Kapoor as Ekta is extremely likeable and her melodramatic, soap-opera inspired character manages to make one laugh. Celina Jaitley doesn`t seem stiff and wooden this time and this in itself is a big achievement for her. Amrita Arora and Anjana Sukhani are also decent in their respective roles. Supporting actors, Vrajesh Hirjee, Rakhi Tandon and Ashwini Kalsekar all do a great job and make the going-ons more entertaining and funnier.
On the whole, Golmaal Returns is absolutely the perfect comedy movie for all those who want to have a good laugh and forget all their worries for sometime. It definitely lives up to its promise; that of providing good comedy. Now I really want to see Fashion too because I`m sure that would be a good movie too. As far as Golmaal Returns is concerned, it`s definitely very entertaining but you have to take your thinking caps off before going for this one. I still can`t believe that this movie has been directed by the same Rohit Shetty who had some months back made the disastrous Sunday, in the name of a comedy.