By Hindustan Times
Housefull 2
Direction: Sajid Khan
Actors: Akshay Kumar, John Abraham
Rating: **
Years ago, Karan Johar had joked that the credits in his films might be somewhat altered - rather than saying 'A film by Karan Johar,' it might say 'The same film by Karan Johar.' I FEEL this will work well for Sajid Khan. Without reference to what you think that of the person and his cinema, you need to admire his consistency.
Housefull 2 has the exact same mixture of stars, foreign locations, farcical plot and spectacularly dim-witted comedy because the first Housefull. That is the cinematic equivalent of junk food - while you walk in, you already know exactly what you will get.
Several writers, including Khan, has been credited with the tale and screenplay but to talk in any serious way a couple of plot could be a travesty. There are merely random happenings around four friends and their four girlfriends. There also are two warring half-brothers, the Kapoors played by Rishi and Randhir Kapoor, and one ex-dacoit turned NRI billionaire, Jagga Daku or JD, played by Mithun Chakraborty. These various characters are confined to a big London mansion where the farce unravels.
If you're wondering concerning the quality of humour, listed here are some sample lines: At one point, a personality says, "I got your virgin, I mean version" and "Langoors have my angoors." Another one remarks, "YOU'VE piles to your brain." One sequence has Riteish Deshmukh being bit at the rear end by an angry crocodile while Shreyas Talpade's crotch is sucked by a python. In another, item-queen Malaika Arora Khan serenades Chakraborty and Boman Irani. And just whilst you think you've hit rock bottom, Khan springs a degree lower. My vote for the grossest visual is Chakraborty romancing a dwarf maid.
Did I laugh? Sparingly, yes. Ranjeet, Bollywood's iconic rapist, has a fun cameo. But mostly, Housefull 2 was so exhausting that at one point, I grew nostalgic for Rohit Shetty's Golmaal series - another full-blown nonsensical outing but with way more energy than this. However, the actors all appear to be they're having fun - Akshay Kumar and John Abraham also get to turn off some nifty fight moves in a couple of pasted-on action sequences, which after all have little pertaining to anything. However the actresses are locked right into a weird pouting contest. Every one sports lips that appear especially inflated for his or her close-ups. And the acting is laughably bad - Shazahn Padamsee and Zarine Khan (who inexplicably plays a personality named JLo) are the joint winners of the worst performance award.
But then the Housefull crew never promised us story, performances, characters, craft. In an interview to www.glamsham.com, Akshay Kumar said that the film has 'love, letch and many adventure.' If that is what you search for within the movies, by all means venture in.
