by Mervin » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:59 pm
You know when a film is about the star and his charisma, when he grabs the mike in the middle of a dinner scene in the movie and starts singing: Chaudhry ka chand ho, ya aftab ho. The context is the family is called Chaudhrys. And you can sense it's totally unscripted. As are several other scenes in the film: yeh hilla hilla ke life hell bana degi. Or Jisko family support ho, usko koi deport nahin kar sakta. Please don't go into the movie expecting sense. Or sensibility. You will have Salman Khan peeing on a haystack to announce a pee break, which is the interval. There will be Salman Khan shaking his pelvis in a most indecent fashion in a song that goes Dhinka Chika Dhinka Chika, whatever that means. And yes, you will come upon a scene where Sanjay Dutt plays a marriage registrar cum divorce lawyer, Ajay Devgn is a blushing bridegroom, Zarine Khan is an alarming Katrina Kaif lookalike bride and Kangna Ranaut is a giggling girlfriend. Fortunately they are all doing one scene cameos.
The film is so crowded that it looks like it houses the entire population of Phuket, where the film appears to be largely based, when it's not in and out of marble palaces, with oddlooking statues. There are several follicularly advantaged characters, who shout very loudly and treat their Kanjeevaram clad women badly. There is a particularly loud and monstrous boy whom Salman teaches a lesson to by pulling down his trousers-truly original. And there's an even larger man, in coma for most of the movie, who bares his chest for a final fight scene, allowing Salman to bare him in the final money shot. But it's the kind of sloppy filmmaking where even the wirework is not removed from a critical fight scene. It doesn't really matter because the movie rides on Salman's charm.