Review : Golmaal

Rating : Worse than I imagined (-10/5)
Genre : Comedy
Year : 2006
Running time : 2 hrs and 30 minutes
Director : Rohit Shetty
Cast : Ajay Devgun, Paresh Rawal, Arshad Warsi, Sharman Joshi, Tushar Kapoor, Sushmita Mukherjee, Rimi Sen, Mukesh Tiwari

GOLMAAL : How brain-dead can you get ?

OK, here it comes ** drumroll ** the first negative rating of the year ! This film is INSUFFERABLE. Although it’s been a few days since I saw it, the trauma is still fresh. And to be fair, I’ll have to tell you that sometime after the interval I had to leave the theatre because the film went from really, really bad, to really, really terrible, and I could take it no more. The story is feeble, true. However I expected no better. What it also is, is vulgar, and insulting to women – like yeah ! let’s have a gag about women being raped.

OK, so we have 4 absolute-good-for-nothing con-men (Devgan, Kapoor, Joshi, Warsi) forcing themselves into a blind couple’s home, pretending that one of them is the couple’s America returned grandson. There of course they meet the beautiful, dumb neighbor Rimi Sen, and promptly fall in love. More foolishness ensues as the foursome evade their debtor Vasool bhai (Tiwari) and foil a gangster’s plan to retrieve stolen diamonds. And that’s the story.

The first half of the film has some truly funny lines, besides the usual, vulgar one-liners. In the second half the film degrades big-time to become an absolutely meaningless, piece of crap. Devgun has no sense of comic timing. Warsi and Kapoor however are good, Tusshar being the mute guy. Sharman Joshi is OK too. Rawal as usual is very good, but I found Mukherjee terribly annoying as the old blind woman. And Rimi Sen, she’s slowly perfecting the art of looking scornful and pleased at the same moment.

This is the kind of film I’d ideally like to rip to shreds, but then I think, why waste more time on garbage ?