Pandit Jai Kishen (Javed Jaffrey) wants to teach lesson to a very arrogant businessman from Goa, Jeffrey Rozario (Paresh Rawal) who wants a rich son-in-law for his daughter Sarah Rozario (Sara Ali Khan), someone who would use a chopper/plane to go buying groceries (yea just one eg of the never ending exaggeration). Pandit accidentally meets Raju Coolie (Varun Dhawan) who co-incidentally falls in love with Sarah just after getting a look of her photo, and rest story is predictable.
I have seen Govinda version in bits and pieces only, it was a guilty pleasure despite having same story that is very odd but it was Govinda-Karishma pairing and Kader Khan with their comic timings and lets say not cringeworthy dialogues that made it a good timepass watch.
Coming to this new version, where do I start.. the opening credits of animation where Amitabh Bachchan asks 'tumhare paas kya hai, and little Raju replies 'mere paas maa nahi hai' as the train left with his mom on it. The annoyance at usage of film references started here. I personally enjoy how Sridhar Raghavan uses them so wonderfully in his films, but in this case David Dhawan is literally forcing them at our face with instances of Raju Coolie doing mimicry of many celebs time and again, to an extent that the fake twin character (oh that was so well done by Govinda), here uses Mithun voice to make him differ from the other brother.
The sillyness doesn't end there, Sarah is shown dumb to fall in love with what looks like a very wierd rich guy, Jeffrey only talks in 'heaven on the docks man etc', Varun Dhawan's overacting to sell his over the top character, Sara Ali Khan struggling in her acting once again specially when she cries, out of no where there's a scene involving deaf kid on railway track with everyone shouting and not willing to help because script says Raju Coolie will do a heroic stunt to save, and the usual stammering/overweight guys made fun of to get laughs.
I can recall only one time I got laugh when Jeffrey says he ain't pizza delivery guy to Sarah. I am not sure why David Dhawan doesn't understand that it was Govinda that made his films work, and not the script.. he just gonna keep ruining films with his son like this.
Leaving asides the 'husn hai suhana' track, that too for the song and not the poor choreography or vulgar dance steps, and 2-3 possible decent moments, there was nothing I enjoyed in this movie.
My Rating : 2/10
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