‘Money is an excellent servant, but can be a horrible master’ finely defines a situation where an incredibly varied cast of characters weave together a story under one roof that constantly builds in intensity and surprise.
As Rohit Shetty has always been known for his mindboggling heroic action sequences and splendid comedy, ‘All the best’ is a fine combination of just everything. A wannabe car expert Prem Chopra (Ajay Devgn) with his beautiful wife Jhanvi (Bipasha Basu) running his ancestral gym, a claiming to be married upcoming rock band singer Veer Kapoor (Fardeen Khan) who’s living on his brother’s pocket money and Veer’s ravishing girlfriend Vidya (Mugdha Godse).
Just when everything is going great guns in their lives , enters the upcoming singer’s millionaire step brother Dharam Kapoor(Sanjay Dutt) bringing with him stumbling madness and generating hilariously awkward situations in just everyone’s life around. Life becomes challenging for Veer and Prem when Veer’s brother, Dharam pays an unexpected visit to Veer’s place.
In order to have his allowance increased, young bachelor Veer had written to his pocket money sourced brother that he is married. Time does not give an opportunity and Dharam’s unpredicted stopover creates inescapable circumstances where Prem’s wife Jhanvi is mistaken for Veer’s wife and Veer’s girlfriend for Prem’s wife.
Apparently Veer is also qualified to be in the hate list of Vidya’s father. Veer and Prem start juggling between the prolonging debt payment to a local don and appeasing Dharam about their false marital status. The outcome results into rib-tickling humorous state where Veer and Prem handle the multiple vague characters arriving unexpectedly at their place and dealing with acquaintances where they proudly swank and cover up everything with lies, lies and more lies.
All The Best
Maxabout Review
Keeps you entertained, laughter unlimited.. .
Friday, October 16, 2009
All The Best makes no claims of catering to the intelligentsia or the elite. It's aimed at those who want to spend two hours of their precious life flexing their facial muscles.The jokes and the goings-on may appear silly, but who cares! As long as one wears a smile on the face even after the show has ended, nothing else matters.
A new genre has arrived in Bollywood! I would like to call it Shetty comedy! The best thing about Rohit Shetty comedies, are they don't seem repetetive, and every time offers something fresh.
The Golmaal director has certainly succeeded in creating a brand for himself with All the Best. This time, the talented director seeks inspiration from Right Bed, Wrong Husband and what works to the advantage are two factors - the written material and the right casting. Both are just right!
Hilarious moments, rib-tickling dialogues, crisp editing, mind boggling situations, minus double meaning dialogues this time.
The direction of Rohit Shetty is superb and he firmly establishes himself as master of this genre of flicks. This flick is certainly an improvement upon his earlier flicks of Golmaal series. He has been ably aided by his writers
Robin and
Yunus in making this flick work. However, some more pace of the film in the second half would have made the flick more enjoyable.
Ten minutes into the film and you know that All The Best is all about mistaken identities. But the proceedings actually take off when Sanju enters the scene. That's when you get drawn into this madcap world completely.
Ajay Devgn has given a terrific performance in this comedy film. His comic timing is so perfect that it’s hard to believe that he had started with an action film like ‘Phool Aur Kaante’. The flick completely belongs to him and the audience will adore him as he has consciously played to gallery throughout. Sanjay Dutt enacts his part well. In fact, the flick becomes interesting only after Sanjay Dutt’s track begins and he starts mistaking one for the wife of other.
Fardeen Khan looks somewhat stiff in his approach towards his work. He is almost at the same level as he was in Boney Kapoor’s super hit flick ‘No Entry’. Bipasha Basu looks gorgeous and enacts her part with sincerity. Bips take the cake among female actors enacting roles in the film. Mugdha Godse does not get much scope to showcase her histrionic ability.
Amongst supporting actors, Johny Lever and Sanjay Mishra are in terrific form. Mukesh Tiwari, Vijay Patkar, Ashwini Kalsekar and Atul Parchure lend credible report.
All The Best has an easy-to-comprehend story and a trouble-free and uncomplicated screenplay (
Robin Bhatt and
Yunus Sajawal).
The music by Pritam lacks quality to attract the audiences to theatres on its own. In fact, the songs only act as hindrance to the smooth flow of the flick. The cinematography by Dudley is at par, while Farhad - Sajid and Bunty Rathore's dialogue are very much in sync with the mood of the film. In fact, a few one-liners are extremely witty.
All The Best is for those who expect fun and laughter unlimited in those two hours. This one makes you smile, laugh, even break into a guffaw at times. Go, have a blast this Diwali!
If your doctor has advised you laughter therapy, then go watch All the Best.