All The Best

All The Best
Monday, October 19, 2009 14:07 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Starring Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mugdha Godse
Directed by Rohit Shetty
Rating: ** ½

"I'm doing action for thirty years. Comedy I've recently taken to, " says Sanjay Dutt in the ‘won'-and-only explosion of dhishum-dhishum.

You got it, brother. In his first really decent and meaty role since Munnabhai Dutt gets into the satirical groove effortlessly and fluently playing a visiting Bade Bhaiyya from abroad whom his kid- brother Fardeen Khan (tolerably befuddled) must fool into believing he's married and decent.

The guys in Rohit Shetty's comedies are anything but decent. Rascals and rogues of the first order Devgan and Khan, are splendidly supported by a sparkling cast of comic actors ranging from Asrani to Johnny Lever to the wonderful Ashwini Kalsekar (remember how cheesy and charming she was in Rohit Shetty's Gol Maal Returns?) to Sanjay Mishra (as a zonked out wannabe householder who says ‘Just chill' as though his tongue had just been through a sugarcane – juice machine).

The screenplay (Robin Bhatt) juices the material for all it's worth.

The constant flow of cheesy-breezy dialogues is littered with high-school humour but blessedly no vulgarity. This is one comedy you could take your mom to see without once walloping a wince into the wanton soup.

The burlesque is fast –paced though surprisingly restrained and has room galore for PJs.

The one-liners are so silly and graffiti-like in their basic humour, you can't but titter at the trivia wrapped in gloss that makes welcome room for Pritam's pacy music without getting in the way of the one-liners.

So ok. This one doesn't leave you ...er Blue in the face. The comedy is purely situational and the style purely ‘ Rohit Shetty'. That means a bit of slapstick, a bit of that rapidly-moving tongue in the cheek, and a lot of Ajay Devgn.

And if you add Sanjay Dutt to the bubby buncy comic brew...man, you've got show that's on the road from the word, go.

This time the setting, if you must know, is Goa. Shetty doesn't use the touristic spot as a character. You suspect he places his colony of characters in the Goan location so they could all be camera-framed into a streamlined stampede.

There are only 3 female characters in the show, the resy are all guys playing con men, goons, gangsters, wheeledealers, warriors and worriers all of whom display an exemplary comic strength.

Sanjay Dutt gets it right after a long time. He has a lot of fun doing his part and he lets us share his enjoyment.

Ajay Devgn's comic timing has gotten rapidly dead-on under Shetty's tutelage. He gives Dutt tit for tat, and then some more.

Not all the material is uniformly amusing. Towards the finishing line you do begin to wonder how much longer it would take this wonky wacky world of wispy and reparable wickeness to set itself right.
Movie:
All the Best
Reviewed by:
Subhash K Jha
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and Rated:
2.5/5
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