Golmaal Returns

Golmaal Returns is a comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Amrita Arora, Anjana Sukhani, Celina Jaitly, Sharat Saxena and Murali Sharma.

A man, who lives with his wife, gets stuck in a yacht for a night after he saves an attractive young woman. His wife suspects him of having an affair and decides to uncover the truth.

A big disappointment after the humorous and equally funny Golmaal but if you watch the film without any expectations the film might and will entertain.

The plot of the film is good and the execution is decent. The film is a perfect example of slapstick comedy. The film has some hilarious comedy scenes which will surely tickle your funny bones although some of the jokes will not make you smile.

Screenplay of the film is decent and will keep you engaged throughout most of the part of the film. Side characters like Vrajesh Heerje, Sanjay Mishra, Mukesh Tiwari and Ashwini Kalsekar entertains whenever they are on screen. Climax of the film is funny and hilarious.

Acting is decent and addition of Shreyas Talpade makes a huge impact and makes the film more entertaining, female leads apart from kareena Kapoor didn't have much to do but they didn't disappoints. Arshad, Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor entertains, Tushar Kapoor looks monotonous in some of the scenes and irritates.

Overall a decent mindless, senseless slapstick comedy and can be watched once on a hot lazy Sunday afternoon.

Golmaal Returns is back again with full of entertainment and enjoyment. I had to clear at first that Golmaal was not in my comedy hit list since I didn't really like it although it was positively received. To me it was a damn senseless and boring story, also performances were not deeply committed by the actors.

But this second version of Golmaal is quiet hilarious and hope it can be one of the best comedies of 2008. The most noticeable case with director Rohit is that he mostly repeats his favourite cast in his every movie. That includes – Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Mukesh Tiwari, Sanjay Mishra etc. This time he made a bit masala of suspense and action than Golmaal but comedy is still his favourite subject. The screenplay and dialogues are really impressive, which ignite to concentrate on the story. The new additions to this series are Shreyas Talpade, Anju Shuklani and Amrita Arora who were not in Golmaal. But Shreyas strongly proved that he is not less than Sharman who was originally casted as Laxman Prasad in the first version. This difference of casting was also handled differently by the director in t he story where Gopal (Ajay) meets Laxman (Shreyas) and asks his name, when after learning he replied there was also another Laxman Prasad who passed away. He takes out the picture of Sharman and shows to Shreyas.

Arshad Warsi as inspector Madhav also performed superbly better than Golmaal, where as Tusshar is the best in his role as a deaf but true romantic barber. And as Gopal done by Ajay Devgan, I had to say this is one of his best comedian parts he has offered in his career. He improved a lot after his previous comedies like Pyar To Hona Hi Tha, Ishq, Sunday, Hum Kisise Kum Nahin or Golmaal.

There is no doubt that Golmaal Returns is a clean and fresh movie without any dark side. This made the movie to be successful with majority of audiences.

The rating is so high just because they made me laugh – a lot ! Its asinine for most parts, there are a lot of PJ's thrown in, the plot has more holes than my socks and it drags a bit towards the end. Yet it manages to entertain, crack enough good ones, poke enough fun at the producers, Saawariya or Balaji films to keep us in a state of mild amusement throughout with several sharp upwards spikes in the middle. Thankfully, they chose to abandon the earlier storyline and most of the characters – keeping just a few (I thought the first Golmaal was terrible) so you can peacefully watch it without being at a loss.

Ajay Devgan is married to Kareena, named Ekta in the film just to allow some merciless leg pulling of Ekta Kapoor and her inane serials. They live with their siblings, Kareena's brother Tusshar (who's mute) and Ajay's sister, Amrita Arora. Kareena always suspects Ajay of having affairs and so one night when he doesn't return as he was rescuing damsel in distress, he prefers to lie rather than risk the truth. That lie leads to a lot of complications, some of which involve, Arshad Warsi as the cop who doesn't like Ajay but is in love with his sister, the snake-tattooed guy, a Rani Mukherjee from Saawariya clone, a dead body, men in drag etc etc.

Some of the best moments come when they're ripping off something – there's a hilarious sequence when they're going hell for leather behind the Kingfisher tune (ooh lala le oleo), another where Ajay spouts dialogue mentioning every one of his films, again when Kareena uses all the Hindi serial names or when they use music from 'Tashan' and towards the end when they start beating Tusshar just because he's from Balaji Productions (in real life).

Ajay was very good in this one, Arshad seems to have re-discovered his spontaneity (had been a bit flat in some of his earlier ones), Tusshar was good though I think they over did the mute jokes while Shreyas was wasted in his role – it was too slapstick for his talents. Amongst the women Kareena looked hot (though do you also feel that she's lost too much weight ?), while Celina, thankfully in this one, keeps her clothes on.

I'll leave you with a couple of PJ's that are used – they're both questions really. What would Lara Dutta be called if she married Brian Lara ? Whats the difference between a secretary and a personal secretary ? If the answers (the first one is obvious) can make you smile, then you have a hope of enjoying the film. Else save yourself the effort or the expense. More reviews at ApurvBollywood at blogspot

Golmaal Returns is not an ordinary film but to be most precise a vagrant, bid scale, lavish Spoof-fest..It is spoof of all typicalities of bollywood cinema..It spoofs action, it spoofs romance, it spoofs even comedy and doesn't even spare Rajnikant too..Its not a film but a compilation of about a 1000 jokes rolled into a 2 hour 20 min show..You can say that its an extended Great Indian Laughter Challenge with each actor trying to outsmart the other..

Its strange that even though it has no story, no script, a screenplay which I could write in my sleep, its pretty "SHAQING" enjoyable..You laugh at all though jokes but would still be wondering why cause they are so funny..Its an absolute time pass with a galore of single meaning dialogues(yeah not double meaning)..Its a guilty pleasure I would say..The jokes are all funny barring the atrocious climax where I wished to be doing what each character of the film was trying to do..

Acting wise Tushhar Kapoor was dumb and he was good, so naturally he has been wasting his talent mouthing dialogues till date..Shreyas Talpade is good ..Strange that an actor Of Ajay Devgan's calibre accepted such a role where he is neither funny nor effective..Kareena Kapoor hams but then who in this so called film doesn't..Rest all are wasted(specially Arshad Warsi).

Music is bad and songs are worse..

Exactly, thats what it is. I was expecting a lot from this movie because the promos looked kind of funny. This movie is nothing but stupidness combined with bad direction, bad acting and a good songs.

Seriously, Kareena Kapoor ruined her repertoire, why did she agree to do this role? - Tushar Kapoor was really funny in Golmaal : Fun Unlimited, thats because he didn't make THAT much noise in the first one. In this movie he irritates you with his noise. - Ajay Devgan is a good actor, but here he was bad bad bad, he should't do movies just because Rohit shetty is his friend. - Arshad Warsi was the man of the screen, he and the songs managed to get four stars out of me from this movie. He is hilarious! As usual. - Celina Jaitley looks beautiful but seriously has no scope. 5/6 minutes maybe? - Shreyas Talpade deserves better roles, not roles like he had in this movie and Aggar.

This movie is only worth watching for the very few funny moments (maybe 5 minutes of laughter in the whole three hours?) and the songs, the last 1 minute of the movie by Tusshar Kapoor cracked me up! Best 1 minute out of the movie!

I hope they don't make Golmaal 3! And if they do, please let Priyadarshan be the director!

Stay Away and catch the last 1 minute and the song clips somewhere on Youtube!