Katrina Kaif looks pretty as a Prague orchestra member and spouts hilarious lines (with her accent intact) like "Woh beta nahin, woh hardcore anti-family man hai". Salman Khan, is the chorus singer who behaves badly, breaks a musician’s violin, then says sorry and gifts him a new one. All that the musician can say is: "We all love him". Quite like the Hindi film industry that always supports this Khan, however much he might stray. Now Katrina is the woman Salman wants to marry and grow old with. Perhaps that too has a real-life spin to it. But it’s Katrina’s dad Boman Irani who comes in between the lovers—sporting Groucho Marx get-up and shouting dialogues as though no one’s hearing him.
At a crucial juncture in his pow-wow with Groucho dad, Salman gets to hear of the death of his rich father (who he happens to be estranged from) and promptly flies to London to stake a claim on the will, which introduces us to some other significant characters. Anil Kapoor is Salman’s half-brother suffering from a disease called William’s Syndrome, the visible manifestation of which is that he plays with kids and sings with clenched fists. He gets to pocket most of the money left by his dad and Salman plots with another crook of a brother, Zayed Khan (who drinks, gambles and has fun with women), to try and grab the goodies off him. On the fringes there’s also an uncle and his family playing dirty over the same pot of gold, and a lawyer-cum-guardian, Mithunda, plotting to get the family together again.
The plot is a throwback to old ghar-grihasti films and comes with the message that the family must always remain united. What makes it worse is that the film unfolds at a snail’s pace. Not a single scene comes alive or grips you. The climax is particularly limp when it should have captured the audience. Ghai tries to give an opulent backdrop and sheen but that does not help in the least. Pretty sceneries can’t save a deadbeat film nor can it prevent the audience from yawning. Even the music that everyone is raving about as the saving grace of the film is unimpressive and uninspired. A.R. Rahman and Gulzar could have done much better.
High Fives
Bollywood
1. Yuvvraaj
2. Dostana
3. Golmaal Returns
4. Fashion
5. EMI
Hollywood
1. Twilight
2. Quantum of Solace
3. Bolt
4. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
5. Role Models
Ringtones
1. Hot N Cold (Katy Perry)
2. Grupo Montez (Adios Amor Te Vas)
3. Henry Mancini (Pink Panther)
4. Koji Kondo (Super Mario Bro. Theme)
5. Unknown (NYSE Bell)
Courtesy: Film Information
