Good news
for all the complainants who don’t waste a chance to criticize Bollywood for
being irrational, illogical and unreasonable! Here comes a film that does bother
to give you enough reasons to explain what’s coming next and why it is there in
the film! Even then the film in question ends up being a strong contender of ‘the
silliest film of the year’ trophy, I don’t really wonder why. Picture this; an
NRI [Abhishek Bachchan] stops at a roadside dhaba on Chandigarh-Solan highway to
feed his family a good meal after a much hurried and hassled drive. The man at
the counter is charging him some 5 thousand rupees for 4 people’s meal which is
not even served or consumed yet. The poor guy doesn’t carry cash. To save him
from the embarrassment, the local dancer [She was the reason for the hiked
price] offers him a dance with her in exchange. What comes next is the item number
by Sonakshi Sinha heavily supported by the Jr Bachchan. C’mon, even a Rakhi
Sawant won’t do it for the said amount!
The problem
with Umesh Shukla’s ALL IS WELL is its lazy ambition to become another Priyadarshan
movie where cartoonish characters will do anything [banging head on the wall,
rolling over one and other, slapping each other] to make you laugh and just
laugh in every scene; the plot could anytime allow actors to participate in a nonsensical
chase and then, end it all in a wedding-mandup where glycerin [the
most-overrated chemical to make you look serious actor] will have a separate
counter at the food-court. Though the story is not at all bad for a family
entertainer, the emotions get silenced by the screeching dialogues and awful performances.
Bhajanlal
Bhalla [Rishi Kapoor] runs a bakery that has hardly any incoming income to run
the family. In fact, it is more of a bone of contention between him and his
wife [Supriya Pathak Kapoor]. The son Inder [Abhishek Bachchan] fed up of the regular
domestic verbal clash has moved abroad to make it big in his singing career. He’s
back after some 10 years and the catch is the money he could get to finance his
first album by selling the bakery. Sounds simple? Wait, we’ll make it as
twisted as any Priyadarshan movie. Add a local slapstick gangster [Mohammad
Zeeshan Ayyub] & cops will come by design, a secret box of good fortune to run
after and a powerful lady with her army [Seema Pahwa with complementary Bugs Bunny
teeth] will definitely be coming into scene and lastly, our heroine who’s all
set to give her Shaadi a miss ‘cause she loves someone else. Enough to
complicate!
For an
Alzheimer patient, a doctor suggests, “Inko jitna khush rakh sakte ho, rakho!’
Isn’t it a ‘prescription for all’ statement? The female protagonist [Asin] believes
in the signs from the universe so much that you would pick up an orange over an
apple from the fruit basket and she might tell you she had saved it for her
would-be-husband and now, you have to marry her. ALL IS WELL is full of such
irritating, intimidating [to make you leave the theatre] and disgusting elements
but what hurts you the most is watching talent like Supriya Pathak Kapoor being
wasted utterly. Smriti Irani was cast in the same role earlier. I am not sure
at what circumstances Supriyaji accepted the role but it is never to match her caliber.
All the stars in the rating given to the film in this review must go to her as
the compensatory allowance. Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub is the only one who looks
constantly trying to make it work. Rests all are either average or forgettable.
Overall,
Umesh Shukla of OMG-OH! MY GOD fame fails miserably to impress. He was probably
too confident to see the film’s flaws. With no offence or any disrespect to Alzheimer
patients, I think sometimes you need a serious illness to forget something bad
happened to you in life. ALL IS WELL takes you in that unfortunate mental zone.
Save yourself, if you can! [1/5]
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