WELCOME
TO THE HANGERS CLUB OF BUFFOONERY
By Vishal Verma

Rating:

What is it?
Well you expect this from David Dhawan’s, Priyadarshan’s, the latest entry Farah Khan, and now you don’t have to keep your fingers crossed when you enter the audi to watch Anees Bazmee movies from now on. Cause now you know that you are in for some silly buffoonery which has only one aim - to entertain.

After the forgettable ‘Sandwich’, Anees now welcomes the audience with a gangster band who keep on churning tunes which are sometimes funny, sometimes situational, sometimes silly, sometimes stupid, and also sometimes confusingly absent.

So does the audience receive a warm welcome! The answer is – if you are looking for a time pass paisa vasool stuff and don’t bother to think about the logic and logistics of ‘what’, ‘when’ ‘who’ ‘why’ ‘were’, then 'Welcome' is your ticket to the nearest cinema hall.

Looking at the promos, one gets the opinion that it will have some good quality humor when it shows faces of Nana, Anil, Akshay and Paresh Rawal. But unfortunately the humor is not of high quality & it mostly survives on gags and situations where characters are supposed to hang in the air and cry for help.

Fortunately, it’s Nana who eats the maximum of this wedding cake followed by Anil and then Akshay. Poor Paresh has to look for the leftovers if any.

Another point is, the characters here are loosely inspired from producer Liz Hurley’s movie ‘Mickey Blue Eyes’ starring Hugh Grant as the auctioneer, and Jeanne Tripplehorn as the girl he loves who belongs to a gangster family.

Rest it has nothing to do with the blue eyes of Mickey.

What is it all about? 
Here auctioneer is Rajiv (Akshay - as usual in 2007), who falls in love with Sanjana (Katrina- reduced to a mere showpiece). But the hitch is, Akshay's uncle Dr.Gungroo- strange name (Paresh Rawal - the same Awara Paagal Deewana type nothing different) wants his son to get married to a respectable and dignified family, which has nothing to do with crime and criminals.

But Katrina is the sister of the top underworld don Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar- fantastic) and Majnu (Anil Kapoor- in his ‘munna’ element once again).

Both the brothers try different ways to make the Dr. Uncle agree to Akshay's marriage but of no use. Meanwhile Akshay and Katrina have already pouched entry into each others heart.

I must tell you this Dr. Gungroo has no business sense at all. If he lets his nephew marry the ganster’s daughter, then the boy can auction any genius or tom, dick and harry’s collection and fetch good money. Plus his samdhis are ganster’s and he owns a hospital, imagine how many fractures and all can be treated at his hospital. But he refuses. Anyway I am not the writer or the maker, Anees is.

Dr.Uncle introduces a new twist in this mobster comedy – Mallika Shrewat who claims to be auctioneer's fiancée, she ends up wooing Nana and Anil at the same time and lands up no where.

Akshay tries to reform the gansters by evoking the dead desire of Nana to be an actor (Nana’s sequences during shoot are funny and brilliant).

Things are going according to plan but unfortunately the ganster brothers' boss RDX (Feroz Khan- funny) son (played by a wig nourished and grown by coconut oil) gets accidentally killed by Katrina.
How the entire confusions ends are shown in a not so howlarious hanger clipper climax in the end.

What to look out for?
Nana Patekar shines and takes the maximum applause for a fantastic performance.
Anil Kapoor is in full form as Majnu, Akshay is good in his part though he faces the danger of becoming repetitive. 

What not?
Buffoonery is created in order to evoke laughter, logic goes for a toss. ‘No Entry’ was much better. The ladies are wasted.   

Recommended: Only for those who are looking for a brainless time pass paisa vasool fun.