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Nana patekar, Anil Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Mallika Sherawat, Akshya Kumar and Katherina Kaif in ‘Welcome’ Film: Welcome Cast: Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Feroz Khan, Mallika Sherawat and Katrina Kaif Direction: Anees Bazmee If Bollywood takes a step forward with “Taare Zameen Par”, it takes half a step back with Anees Bazmee’s film. Welcome, one would say? Not quite. Unfortunately, the box office usually sings a different tune, and the masses, faceless and forever acquiescing, seem to have yielded to yet another over-the-top comedy. Replete with melodrama with lots of corny stuff thrown in, “Welcome” has everything going for it. It has a huge star cast, led by the King of Comedy Akshay Kumar. Keeping him company are the likes of Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, and surprisingly, Feroz Khan with Mallika Sherawat and Katrina Kaif bringing up the confectionery. All going for it? Yet, all but one thing: There is not a line of grace in the film, not a comic sequence you have not seen before, or a shot that is handled with an iota of subtlety. To begin with, it is a simple story of the bhailog going around looking for a groom for their sister. So, Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor, the usual underworld ‘stars’ play brother to Katrina’s sister act: never mind there is no resemblance or even a sequence showing sibling love! It is predictable but hilarious if you don’t mind loudness in words and gestures. Enter Akshay as the girl’s beau, and you would think the problem is solved. Not quite. Turns out the guy is the nephew of a man who has already said no to any alliance with the underworld family! Of course, Anees does things in a larger-than-life manner. So, he flies in Feroz Khan as RDX, over and above the local gangsters! Anees also shoots the film primarily in Dubai. Incidentally, Mallika manages to out-score, and out-strip her competitor, the consistently non-acting Katrina, who plays the good girl but wears clothes similar to Mallika! The three guys? Well, Nana gets to jig, Anil and Akshay get to repeat themselves. And we get a film that stays married to conventional ways of successful formula fare. Welcome to join the gang! — ZUS
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