A
big
cast
engaged
in
tons
of
bungling,
glowering,
scrambling
and
tomfoolery
amidst
twists
and
turns
of
madcap
proportions,
Anees
Bazmee’s
brand
of
entertainment
is
all
for
lack
of
restraint.
The
excesses
are
for
all
to
see
in
his
upcoming
Diwali
release,
Bhool
Bhulaiyaa
3,
the
third
film
in
the
horror-comedy
series
and
his
second
in
the
franchise
kickstarted
by
the
Priyadarshan-Akshay
Kumar
combo
and
taken
forward
by
Bazmee
and
Kartik
Aaryan.
The
latest
edition
is
going
full
throttle
with
its
creeps
and
cackle,
which
marks
the
addition
of
Madhuri
Dixit
and
re-entry
of
the
OG
Manjulika,
Vidya
Balan.
Anees
Bazmee
is
no
stranger
to
multi-starrers.
Sukanya
Verma
offers
a
lowdown
on
the
man
and
his
mad,
mad,
movies.
Naseeb
Believe
it
or
not,
Anees
Bazmee
began
his
film
career
as
a
teenaged
Shatrughan
Sinha
in
Manmohan
Desai’s
Naseeb.
See
that
smiley-faced
young
man
with
hair
as
big
as
his
tie
in
the
picture?
Yes,
that’s
him.
Guess
the
masala
bug
hit
him
hard
while
working
on
the
lost
and
found
multistarrer.
Bazmee
went
on
to
assist
Raj
Kapoor
on
Prem
Rog
and
wrote
several
David
Dhawan
entertainers
like
Swarg,
Bol
Radha
Bol,
Aankhen,
Raja
Babu
and
Deewana
Mastana
before
he
decided
he’s
ready
to
call
the
shots
with
the
Ajay
Devgn-Kajol
starrer, Hulchul.
Bhool
Bhulaiyaa
2
Rebooting
Bhool
Bhulaiyaa
wouldn’t
be
half
as
fun
if
not
for
Tabu’s
twin
sisters
avatar
that
keeps
the
whole
film
and
its
crowd
of
comedians
on
its
toes
oscillating
between
cunning
and
creepy.
There’s
Kartik
Aaryan
too
flexing
his
comic
chops
in
a
Bazmee
freaky
farce
that’s
not
only
silly
but
knows
it
too.
Pagalpanti
What
can
one
say
about
a
movie
where
a
song
goes
Dimaag
Mat
Lagana?
Pagalpanti‘s
get
rich
quick
schemes
by
duping
a
pair
of
dons
led
by
a
troika,
of
which
one
is
the
perennially
unfunny
John
Abraham,
doesn’t
do
much
for
the
film’s
fun
quotient.
Unless
it’s
the
unintentional
kind.
Its
My
Life
A
lacklustre
remake
of
the
Telugu
romance
Bommarillu,
Its
My
Life
starring
Harman
Baweja
along
with
Genelia
D’Souza
—
reprising
her
role
from
the
original
—
took
a
long
time
to
see
the
light
of
the
day,
opting
for
a
OTT
release
in
the
end.
Mubarakan
Mubarakan
stars
two
Arjun
Kapoors,
but
it’s
really
just
‘chachu‘
Anil
Kapoor
along
with
Ratna
Pathak
Shah
and
Pavan
Malhotra
at
the
helm
of
every
trick
and
treat
in
Mubarakan.
The
troika
provide
heft
and
humour
that
makes
the
exasperating
goof-ups
more
endurable
than
they
deserve
to
be.
Welcome
Back
Bazmee
falls
back
on
his
bankable
old-timers
Anil
Kapoor,
Nana
Patekar,
Paresh
Rawal
as
well
as
a
humorous
Dimple
Kapadia
for
Welcome
Back.
The
fun
bunch
elevate
its
feeble
farce
doling
out
LOL
wit
in
what
is
a
definite
improvement
from
his
preceding
mess.
Ready
Anees
Bazmee’s
remake
of
the
Telugu
hit
piggybacks
on
Salman
Khan’s
superstar
draw
to
dhinkchika
its
way
to
the
box
office.
Strictly
for
Sallu
fans
is
the
best
you
can
say
about
this
senseless
mishmash
of
romance,
action
and
comedy
whose
idea
of
substance
is
the
actor’s
rippling
muscles
Thank
You
Another
one
that
goes
directly
to
worst-of
everyone
associated
career’s
list, Thank
You
reiterates
Bazmee’s
love
for
seeing
humour
in
adulterers.
Neither
Irfan
Khan’s
talent
nor
Akshay
Kumar’s
charisma
is
enough
to
salvage
this
abomination.
No
Problem
Akshaye
Khanna
in
drag.
Bullets
that
tickle
Anil
Kapoor’s
belly.
Ranjeet
shows
more
hair
than
Kangana
has
brains
in
the
movie.
Monkey,
dogs,
fish,
no
one
is
spared
or
make
sense.
This
one
is
besieged
with
problems.
Singh
is
Kinng
Akshay
Kumar’s
potential
for
comedy
peaks
around
Singh
is
Kinng‘s
puerile,
playing
for
laughs
humour.
Bazmee’s
film
though,
juggling
between
farce
and
hot
air,
is
dedicated
to
tomfoolery
of
the
highest
level.
Welcome
Anil
Kapoor
and
Nana
Patekar’s
madcap
antics
and
camaraderie
as
mafia
brothers
conned
by
the
same
girl
run
the
show
in
Welcome.
Toss
in
a
jittery
Akshay
Kumar
and
jumpy
Paresh
Rawal
in
its
slapstick
scenario
and
Bazmee
is
laughing
all
the
way
to
the
bank.
Sandwich
Bazmee’s
recycled
Saajan
Chale
Sasural
stretches
the
bigamy
joke
too
far
and
solely
depends
on
its
leading
man’s
famous
comic
chops
to
make
a
stale
shtick
work.
But
the
long-in-the-making
Govinda-Raveena
Tandon-Mahima
Chaudhry
is
well
past
its
sell-by
date
to
oblige.
No
Entry
Straying
men
and
suspicious
wives
are
the
script
and
source
of
comic
confusion
in
No
Entry.
Most
of
Bazmee’s
hokum
is
a
droning
exercise
in
highlighting
this
cliche
until
Anil
Kapoor,
Fardeen
Khan
and
Salman
Khan,
in
an
extended
cameo,
come
to
the
rescue
in
a
truly
amusing
climax.
Deewangee
Bazmee
attempts
drama
in
a
brazen
copy
of
the
Richard
Gere-Edward
Norton
thriller
Primal
Fear,
which
pits
Ajay
Devgn
and
Akshaye
Khanna
as
devil
and
his
almost
advocate
amidst
deadly
deceit
and
obsessive
love
for
Urmila
Matondkar.
Deewangee
earned
praise
for
Khanna’s
intensity
and
Devgn’s
wicked
U-turn.
Pyaar
Toh
Hona
Hi
Tha
A
rip-off
of
the
Hollywood
rom-com
French
Kiss,
Pyaar
Toh
Hona
Hi
Tha‘s
lovey-dovey
shenanigans
do
not
score
on
originality
but
hugely
benefited
from
Ajay
Devgn-Kajol’s
real-life
attraction
as
they
embodied
Pyaar
Toh
Hona
Hi
Tha‘s
inevitability
to
the
hilt.
Hulchul
Best
remembered
for
kicking
off
a
romance
between
its
leads
Ajay
Devgn
and
Kajol,
Hulchul‘s
stereotypical
masala
about
a
cop
and
his
two
sons,
of
which
one
is
adopted
and
the
melodrama
it
ensues
in
when
one
of
them
is
convicted
for
murder.
