Saturday, May 30, 2015
Welcome 2 Karachi
Indo-Pak
Bash
Sometimes, the only reason for not being disappointed by a film
are low expectations. With a new director, Ashish R Mohan making a film obviously meant to give
another push to Jackky Bhagnani’s (the producer’s son) career, and the only
saleable point being Arshad Warsi, who would think Welcome 2 Karachi had anything much to offer?
Inspired by Dumb and Dumber films,
this one has two dimwits landing up in Karachi when the boat on which they are
partying with skimpily clad white women (producer dad willing to shell out
money!) capsizes during a storm.
Shammi (Shammi (Arshad Warsi) and
Kedar (Jackky Bhagnani), then get into one misadventure after another involving
gangsters, gun-runners, the Taliban, clueless Pakistani intelligence officers
(Lauren Gottleib and sidekick), jingoistic Americans and crooked Pakistani
politicians (are there any other kind?)
The humour
is meant to be silly and it is; the two guys are meant to be daft and they are;
a film like this is low on logic, so wondering how or why anything happens makes
no sense. Suffice to note that the guys get fed on a regular basis and are
given fashionable changes of costume—it wouldn’t do to have them running about
in rags, would it?
Some of the
lines are comical, and Jackky Bhagnani as the Gujjubhai from Jamnagar, puts on
the right accent and manages to be a worthy foil for the very talented comic
actor Arshad Warsi.
The script
(Vrajesh Hirjee) could have been much funnier and the pace faster; on the plus
side, there is no romantic track to distract and some good actors in cameos.
Since the
mood of the Bollywood film viewer is partial to comedies these days, Welcome 2 Karachi might just float.
There is some talk of a series of Welcome
2 films… the next one could just be in London, if the madcap ending is
anything to go by.
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