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Golmal is back.Again!It's Diwali and the expectations are high from the audience. So what does our Shetty saab with his first-sequel-director-in-bollywood-tag do? Make it large, rest takes care of itself. So how does G3 fare?Well Shetty, who has knowingly or unknowingly turned himself into a comedy specialist is no Hrishikesh Mukherjee for starters.Today's world perhaps has no place for the subtleties, wit and sundry other extinct virtues.Blast off the audience with zany dialogues,garish sets, colours, jarring music,background score and over the top set pieces .That silly to the hilt is the hit formula. And you get all you can grab with the third edition of the Golmaal series.
While the laughter quotient keeps running, sometimes haltingly, one gets the feeling early on that its going to be a pucca no brainer verging on the downright acrid stuff. It all gets down to an unbearable and absolutely unnecessary scene with the entire male cast gesturing each other with objects of varying sizes, to shove them up theirs...(yep you read it correctly).
But nonetheless, Shetty manages to keep his audience glued with some thing or the other, especially the vintage and infectiously likeable paring of Mithun da and Supriya Pathak. The pair sizzles and crackles in chemistry,timing,nostalgia inducing sequence after sequence. Mithun's disco dancer days and the delightful cameo by Prem Chopra uttering the famous "Prem naam hai mera.." dialogue are well orshestrated and well taken.
So, we have the mid fifties pair of Mithun/Surpiya and their respective warring "children" who wouldn't mind slicing off each others heads to get a little fun, and an assortment of crooks(Sanjay Mishra and Vrajesh Hirjee, a don( Ghajni inspired Jonny Lever), a bumbling cop and loads of crashes, broken fingers and what hav nots to complete the running time of 2 hrs and 25 mins.
Expectedly, things get out of hand soon into the movie, and from then on after shot of impossible situations plop onto the screen in the name of a story. Really its just an assemblage of situational set pieces of the very likeable to the very outrageous variety. Go for the few likeable scenes,gags and seriously funny parts without any expectation of sanity and you will have a good time. The music is bearable, coupled with disco dancer numbers. The cast is not that important part of the movie since most of the actors have to scream out their dialogues and make faces at the camera.But still, Ajay infuses enough insanity to his role, Kareena,given more footage may have done better still with her swearing, tomboyish act and the veterans Mithun and Supriya just warm our hearts with splendid performances. Both Sanjay Mishra and Vrajesh Hirjee shine through their respective acts of a nasal toned villian and a cobra tattoed maniac. Jonny manages to hold attention despite a repetative role. The sets are loud to say the least, sound design tends to frequently bring the house down, and the cinematography is of the ad-for-all-paint-companies variety.Despite the low brow, you still get the laffs, and variety. Romance, fights, drama and all. Its zany, aimed at zapping you. Miss the sour parts and try to enjoy this new age genre of all in one spectrum.Jholjhall anyone?