Golmaal : No Brain Dhamaal
The intentions are pretty clear. Non stop nonsense, no brains required. The idea is to tickle your funny bone. Director Rohit Shetty and writer Neeraj Vohra focus on the goal. To create a comedy, for an audience with the lowest recorded levels of intelligentsia. And in the process, if you get swept away, and end up laughing at the least expected moments, let not that embarrass you.
Expecting no great shakes from Golmaal, you enter the theater and are greeted with the opening song running behind the titles, where our four leading actors sandwich themselves between blonde babes on a golden beach.
Is it just me or is this now a well recorded fact that extras in a Bollywood song sequence have more white chicks than those living in the County of Orange, here in California?
Anyways, the story moves from silly, to wacky, to bumpy, to snobbish, to stupid, to a few unexpected sequences which may knock you off the chair as you laugh out loud.
This ofcourse, is no patch on the original Golmaal. Yet kya karein, the 21st century Bollywood comedy seems to have no room or time to learn and understand the meaning of “intelligent sense of humor”.
Silliness is quite acceptable and digestible. But take it on an overdrive and you lose the punch.
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Still, it’s worth a dekho dekho.
Tushar Kapoor impresses with his mute “Aa Oo” act. Devgan plays it cool. Arshad Warsi, shows once again, he’s one of the few actors of our times with a terrific sense of humor. While Sharman Joshi plays it quite naturally.
Aseem Bajaj’s camera gives this product the glossy look and rich look. The ocean is oh so dreamy blue.
Vohra for once, seems to have been given a “no interference” team and he lets himself loose. Silliness in comedy is his forte and he gets the job done. One does wish, if he could have gone easy on portions of the “rape” jokes.
Switching to comedy seems to have been a conscious decision for director Rohit Shetty, after his disastrous start in Zameen.
B Minus. It’s stupid and nonsensical. Yet, it could be the one, which makes you laugh the hardest this month.
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July 17th, 2006 at 10:27 am
True man,But it was 2 1/2 hrs of pure fun man;)
Had gone for the movie with family and since it was clean,didn’t end up squirming in my seat.The kids sitting behind me especially had a blast,just kept howling with laughter.
Arshad Warsi and Sharman Joshi are too good in the movie and both have great comic timing:D,Even Tushar Kapoor was funny(probably coz he didn’t have any dialogues:p)
The music was also pretty good,especially the title song.The b/w song picturised on Paresh Rawal and Sushmita Mukherjee had us in splits.Especially the parts when the 4 heroes keep popping up with advice:))
July 17th, 2006 at 11:53 am
interesting………
July 17th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
s it just me or is this now a well recorded fact that extras in a Bollywood song sequence have more white chicks than those living in the County of Orange, here in California?
I concur :))
July 17th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
This movie was a total laugh-riot! I liked it more so coz of the nice clean comedy.
https://fenderbender.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/golmaal-fun-unlimited/
July 18th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
after a long time ..comes an unpretentius ‘not wanting to try’ comedy.
good one
July 19th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Wow, Everyone seems to have liked the movie. I guess i needa watch it asap too. Sharmaan Joshi has talent, hope he keeps getting better roles.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:47 am
- Sumeet, I think it’s the situational comedy in the movie that gets you. I laughed at the most unexpected places. The scene where Tushar Kapoor drags a sleeping Arshad Warsi knocked me off my chair. Another scene that had me in splits with tears rolling down my cheeks was where Tushar in the dumb “aa oo” language starts explaining to Ajay Devgan about what Sharman and Arshad did with a huge iron rod. And the scene where finally the concept of “sandook” sinks into the heads of the 4 guys. Each goes “sandook?” - until Tushar’s turn when instead of saying “sandook?” he goes “Aa uu”… I’m still laughing when I rewind that scene in memory.
July 24th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
its full of laughssssssssssssssss…..
total laugh-riot, fatastic comedy….
Its by far the best clean-nice family comedy in a dacade or so….
So if you have not watched it so far do watch it pals, to believe
July 25th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
:((tragedy movie …
August 11th, 2006 at 7:28 am
i think it is the best comedy film after hera pheri and phir hera pheri .neeraj vohra who is involved in all the three films has done a tremendous job.the movie is a complete laugh riot
tusshar kapoor unexpectedly has acted very well.all the actors have done.i am hoping that rohit shetty makes a sequel this movie.iwill eagerly wait for it