Golmaal Again Movie Review: Ajay Devgn Almost Makes This Film Watchable

Golmaal Again Review: The movie feels too long, but it proves to be better than Golmaal Returns and Golmaal 3, thanks to Ajay Devgn

Tabu is in Rohit Shetty's latest Golmaal movie. Seeing this powerhouse actress in a film so far removed from sanity is the equivalent of spotting Helen Mirren in a Carry On movie. That, however, is what Shetty does: he carries on, and somewhere along the way as his blockbusters continue minting money, perhaps every respectable actor in Hindi cinema will eventually hop along for a ride. The new film, Golmaal Again, opens with a music video where Arshad Warsi and Kunal Kemmu enter the frame on top of sportscars - leading man Ajay Devgn, of course, straddles two cars - and these vehicles run rings around Tabu, a new entrant to the franchise, one of our greatest heroines being circled by flashy commercial sharks. It all seems rather ominous.

Nobody, however, can accuse Shetty of false advertising. As a viewer, you go into this film fully prepared for inanity. Sanjay Mishra will misspell things, Ajay Devgn will break a few fingers, Vrajesh Hirjee will show up and Tusshar Kapoor will shut up. There will also be, naturally, a whole lot of slapping, and a few jokes about a blind man. This is what the franchise is built on, except this time Shetty has constructed the tomfoolery around an actual and reasonably elaborate plot, one involving ghosts and haunted houses and murder most foul. Now this is promising, the idea of a storyline no matter how juvenile, and as Tabu starts telling us the story of a picturesque orphanage and Shetty pulls into the building from afar - like zooming in on Asterix's village - there is a chance things may be different this time.