YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA 2: if goofy spoofs could save the day!

Playing a cartoon-ish scientist of sky-high ambitions who wants to build a literal ‘out of this world’ mall in space, when Anupam kher inquires about Sunny Deol’s gravity-defying encounter with his ‘can you believe once I was really funny’ sidekick Johnny Lever as ‘kitne aadmi thay?’; Lever replies, “jaswant singh” “ohh, you mean his name was jaswant singh?” Lever clarifies to create some giggles, “no boss, I mean Just one Singh…sirf ek sardar” well if you really find it funny, I would suggest rush to Deols’ dumb comedy YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA 2 right now, you’ll have plenty of such rag-gags…and meanwhile, I’ll go and mourn over the dying idea of entertainment.

Problem with YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA 2- the sequel to 2011’s mad comedy of same name is never the performances, you always know what this father-sons trio is going to do in order to entertain you. So, don’t expect any surprises in that part; they do pretty regular monotonous things they are identified & labeled for…but the real letdown is the writing that hops on to a screenplay liable only for creating stupidity over spoofs mostly on Salman Khan’s films & dialogues. Then there is an orangutan described irrationally as Monkey most of the times. He reads novel about human behavior. He paints exceptionally well on par with Mr. Piccaso…and if that’s nothing to you, there’s also Sunny paaji’s famous symbolic scream attack that produces tornado/tsunami stronger than any Katrina, sandy or Rita. 

If these two paragraphs written above suggest it is a complete washout, here is some relief. I would not rate this insufferable because it doesn't go overboard all the time. Some scenes and especially one-liners where Dharamji naively talks about Deols in real life and splashes a certain charisma on screen is something to count for. Sucheta Khanna surprises you with her quick lovely regular appearances as Babli-the other sidekick to Anupam Kher. Annu Kapoor tries his hard to impress but succeeds only in parts.

On the whole, 2 hour 35 minutes is what it demands from you, but the kind of patience you need to carry with yourself to be able to sit through is quite high. I survived this hopeless mad comedy because I have developed good amount of immunity to such ill-humored non-sense, you might not. Don’t take risk! **[2/5]