All the Best: Fun Begins (2009)

Simply Perfect

An Exercise In Nonsense

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

All The Best is a laughter ride.The movie does get a little boring in the start and even gets a bit serious in the second hour.But still All the Best is high on laughter.The screenplay is excellent.Direction by Rohit Shetty is very good.The music is good.Dialogs are witty Performance wise-Ajay Devgn is the best.His comic timing is simply superb.Sanjay Dutt is another actor to watch out.He is great.Fardeen Khan is good.Bipasha Basu is good.Mugdha is wasted.Johnny Lever is excellent.Asrani is very good.Vijay Patkar as Johnny's sidekick is funny.Mukesh Tiwari and Ashwini Kalsekar are funny.Overall All The Best guarantees laughter.

I loved some of the songs and the colours were beautifully welcoming but Rohit Shetty needs to quit while he's ahead. All his movies are frivolous (albeit funny) and painfully similar. Definitely leave your brain at home with this one. It's follows the same formula as Golmaal, Golmaal Returns and Sunday. Men trying to swindle women all for the sake of laughter and proving that their are the dominant sex. The actions seemed like the poor man's version of RACE meets SPEED RACER + Johnny Lever replaces Tushar Kapoor as the mute. Yes and leave it to Rohit Shetty to make Sanju Baba look all washed up and ready to retire(I saw him in 'Blue' and 'Luck' and he didn't look desperate like he did in this film) Oh! yeah and he(Shetty) does not avoid controversy by poking fun at Black people as he always does. I don't know what his beef is with Black people.

Rohit Shetty is THE David Dhawan of Bollywood today. Dhawan ruled throughout the 90's with comedies, and the 2000's belong to Shetty when it comes to comedies. 'Golmaal' was hilarious, while the sequel was plain average. 'All The Best' is Shetty's finest work after 'Golmaal'. It's silly, but funny and a fair entertainer nonetheless.Logic is not the question here, Entertainment is. I laughed my ass off at times, while sometimes I thought the humor went stale and plain bad. Shetty's direction is neat, handling the funniest of sequences with ease and style.Sanjay Dutt may be in a supporting role in 'All The Best', but he eats everyone up in here. He's excellent and his portions are the Highlight of this film, loved him. Ajay Devgn tries hard to make you laugh, he's okay. Fardeen Khan is good. Sanjay Mishra & Johny Lever are fantastic. Mishra's just chill n Lever's silence keep the proceedings alive. Bipasha looks a million bucks, which is a routine thing for the babe. Her performance is really good. Mugdha is wasted. Asrani is effective.On the whole 'All The Best' is a must see for those who thrust for a strictly time-pass fare.

There is one thing conspicuously invisible in 'All The Best' …. The Director - Rohit Shetty. Not that he has any noteworthy cinema riding on his back with forgettable works such as Golmaal, Golmaal returns (??!!), Zameen and Sunday but this time around, it's as though the actors Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Sanjay Mishra, Johnny Lever and the femme fatales were left on their own with a half page story to work with. Screenplay, script, editing etc are left to the spot boys while the handful of funny dialogues must be conjured up by the actors themselves. Thus, all we get in terms of entertainment are a few funny scenes and dialogues and the rest of the movie being a stale brew of hamming, over-the-top action, loud comedy and silly amateurish scenes that suit a 4th grade school play than a movie with so many actors. All the best is what one could watch on a holiday afternoon when there's nothing better to watch on television. You will kill time instead of passing through it….. some brain cells as well. Fardeen Khan is wasted in a role where he appears to be nothing more than helpless, Ajay Devgan has done better even in Hindustan Ki Kasam with his performance while his aspirations of being a producer are rightly picked on by Dutt's humorous take on it in the movie. Even Johnny Lever had one of his worst roles in the movie where he plays a mute gangster whereas Sanjay Mishra's character does nothing but repeat the same dialogues over and over to the point of irritation. Bipasha does what best she can do with the piecemeal role that she has while that Mugdha Godse may not be seen on the big screen again after this stint. Sanjay Dutt is the only actor who entertains in the movie. All the jokes, quirky dialogues and funny scenes belong to him and he renders them flawlessly. Surprisingly, in all the mess, 2 songs truly stand out by Pritam – 'Haan Main Jitni Martaba' & 'Kyon'. KK & Pritam have given countless hits and this time too, they excel with their combined skills with a rocking track in 'Martaba' while Clinton Cerejo gives his best so far in 'Kyon'. The conclusion is that Sanjay Dutt is the only factor one can sit through the movie that has some bit of humour in dialogues and scenes associated with his character. The rest of the movie is simply forgettable and at the same time memorable for the complete lack of direction in its plot, editing, screenplay, meaning, purpose and authenticity. For a Diwali release, such negligence should be unforgivable. One must subject Rohit Shetty to watch Golmaal & Golmaal Returns ………back-to-back!!5.62 on a scale of 1-10.