Laugh out loud
KOMAL VIJAY SINGH
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Rohit Shetty believes he has a winner on his hands with Golmaal Returns
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FUN for all Golmaal Returns promises side-splitting situations and colourful characters
Director Rohit Shetty is back with another slapstick comedy. After the surprise hit, “Golmaal” that lived up to its tagline, Fun Unlimited, comes “Golmaal Returns — Fun Again” with new characters, and a concoction of mud
dles and madness, scrapes and skirmishes.
Rohit is at pains to emphasise that “Golmaal Returns” is not a sequel. It was when Yusuf Sajawal brought his script that had four boys and an equal number of girls as the protagonists that they thought of making the film as “Golmaal Returns”, not a sequel but part of a series. “The Munnabhai movies, the James Bond and Police Academy flicks are all series with independent stories. The names of the goofy foursome of “Golmaal” remain the same, but they are “new characters in new relationships.”
Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi and Tushar Kapoor have Shreyas Talpade as their fourth companion instead of Sharman Joshi. Instead of one girl being wooed by the four in “Golmaal”, now there are four, being played by Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Celina Jaitley and Anjana Sukhani. Rohit says it took great courage for him to make a slapstick comedy like “Golmaal”.
“I was scared when I made ‘Golmaal’. Now, I am confident. The success of the film and the response that I still get to that, especially from children, is what prompted ‘Golmaal Returns’.”
“Content-wise, the script is stronger, ‘Golmaal’ wasn’t really dialogue oriented, ‘Golmaal Returns’ is 10,000 times better,” says Rohit.
Tushaar still has very little to say in the movie as he is still dumb. In “Golmaal Returns”, he plays a barber, nah, a hairstylist (Barbers are called hairstylists these days, Rohit corrects himself).
He is brother to Kareena, who goes by the name of Ekta, and is understandably addicted to saas-bahu serials. Married to Ajay, she has her sis-in-law (Amrita Arora) living with her as well as her dumb brother. With Amrita’s character as that of a silly, gullible girl it is a mad household.
Rohit has spared a thought for his audience. “Golmaal Returns” had a seduction song sequence with Ajay and Celina, but the director chucked it as it was hurting him mentally. “Now, we have a dance-and-music piece for the seduction scene. It is hilarious,” he confides.
In “Golmaal”, Arshad’s spoof of the blind Rani Mukherjee act from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Black”, Ajay’s entry on two bikes, the hare-brained villain’s henchman, the outlandishly silly saanp wala guy with his laughter-inducing snake-like strikes and moves have been incorporated in “Golmaal Returns”. “From Hong Kong to Hyderabad, children to the elderly have remembered these scenes and asked for similar characters/situations,” says Rohit. “Ajay’s entry is on two jeeps this time. Vrajesh Hirjee is there again as the stupidly snaky henchman.
With the pranks, gags and spoofs, “Golmaal” sailed from one scene to the other as a never-ending laugh riot. The benchmark for “Golmaal Returns” remains its predecessor. Will it live up to its tagline of “Fun Again”?
The challenge begins this Diwali.
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