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Film: All the Best: Fun Begins
Director: Rohit Shetty
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Bipasha Basu, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Mughda Godse
Rating: **1/2
I thought I'd need a dose of Saridon while watching this over-coloured, chaotic, over-written, filled-with-actors comedy about misunderstandings. I didn't. We have seen this type of structure too often, but All The Best catches you off guard. It will have you laughing spontaneously. There are some genuinely funny lines and that's enough to keep you engaged.
Adapted from the play Right Bed, Wrong Husband, musician Veer (Fardeen Khan, has his moments) lives off an allowance from his brother Dharam (Sanjay Dutt, sharp and snappy). To see that the allowance is increased, Veer and friend Prem Chopra (Ajay Devgan, getting better with comedy in every film) concoct a wife for Veer.
However, when Dharam unexpectedly arrives in Goa, en route to 'Loshothoo' (for some reason, it is amusing every time one of the characters says 'Loshothoo' referring to the African country, Lesotho) Dharam mistakes Prem's wife Jahnavi (Bipasha Basu, endearing) to be Veer's better half Vidya (Mugdha Godse, floundering). And thus begins a comedy of errors.
The action scenes, especially the car race, are well designed and executed. However the art director has gone berserk with the multi-coloured plastic flowers in every frame. The myriad characters often get annoying, like Johny Lever's mute gangster and Sanjay Mishra's Slumdog millionaire act.
The latter half does not match the madness of the opening hour and the climax is absurd and unfunny. The humour is far from subtle, the relationships shallow and the actors are having a good time, which is what the film wants from the audience -- to have a good time.
