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This flick is for masses

In sync: A scene from ‘Golmaal Returns’

Film: Golmaal Returns

Starcast: Tusshaar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Amrita Arora

Direction: Rohit Shetty

They say, laugh at yourself so that none can laugh at you. So has Ekta Kapoor, allowed director Rohit Shetty to laugh at herself, her own saas-bahu serials, the 24-hour-a-day deck-up, phoenix-like characters and drab content.

Not only that, she made her brother Tusshaar Kapoor join him. Hence Kapoor not only gets the maximum footage, but also applause, courtesy, the caricature of the speech impaired that he plays.

Even the lead heroine Kareena Kapoor is called Ekta, whose driving point in life is Balaji serials.

And the result is here. All the cinemagoers (read masses) are laughing with Ekta on her products and not at her! At least, with Golmaal Returns, the sequel to Golmaal that came in 2006, this is the just the case. One wonders at story writer: “Is that the mind that (re) launches thousands done-to-death ideas for the success of a film? And yet strikes a perfect chord with the front row audiences!”

‘K-factor’ rules

Well, it’s the story of a family of four – a loving but suspicious wife Ekta and her much-misunderstood husband Gopal (Ajay Devgan), Ekta’s speech-impaired, dim-witted brother Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor) and Gopal’s sister Esha (Amrita Arora).

Minus Gopal, all the three others live on ‘K-factor’ serials for their staple diet – the arguments, the dialogues, the lifestyle and above all, much-imagined schemes.

Like any other regular films story, it is weaved with the murder of a worker, apparently Gopal’s much-subjugated subordinate at the yacht and Ajay’s absence from the dock on the murder day.

One Laxman (Shreyas Talpade) reaches Gopal to bail him out of the situation on a fat salary so that he could marry Meera (Celina Jaitley)….and the drama unfolds!

With stale jokes, phrases and titles of the film for dialogues, over-the-top acting, juvenile humour, below the belt remarks, hints at gays and peppy songs, this Golmaal Returns, scores a few points over the previous one. It has its own brand of humour which would be lapped up by the masses, though the critics might scoff at it.

Sample this; ‘Aapki tareef?’, “Sabhi karte hain”, or “Main koi tumhara daily soap nahin hoon jo sham ko roz sahi vaqt par telecast ho jaye’ or Hey Bhagwan! Ye kaisi hai kasaouti hai zindagi ki…” and so on.What’s new? It’s the inside view of a luxurious yacht that you may not have seen in other films.

Well, clearly it is for the masses and not the classes! And mind you, it is still the masses which determine the success of a film!

RANA SIDDIQUI ZAMAN

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