Raja Sen says Housefull 2 is an unfunny mess.There's a little glimpse of Raj in every Kapoor. Over the years, as Shammi and Shashi developed their own styles, as Randhir harmlessly tickled, while Rishi revolutionised young romance and as Ranbir continues to blaze his town trail, the men in the family have often showed off momentary, unmistakable flashes of Raj.
Sajid Khan's new film reunites Randhir and Rishi, putting them in derby hats and preposterous bowties, giving them horrible lines and offensive characters, with puerile humour and much ham on display. The only Raj we see in the lads here is the embarrassing Raj of better forgotten excursions like Gopichand Jasoos. One can imagine the Showman, peering from on high, cringing.
Exasperatingly abused as they are by the script and the maker, the brothers however remain the less agonising parts of Sajid Khan's Housefull 2, a grotesque film that seems to have been put together by a particularly sadistic ten-year-old. The fact that a film like this gets a budget and a release is befuddling and alarming, with several of the 'actors' involved vying fiercely for the Worst Of The Lot award.
That is, as you can expect, a contest going right down to the wire. There's Shreyas Talpade, impressively making us forget the days of yore when we used to applaud his performances. There's Johnny Lever, phoning in idiocy that has gotten really, really old. There's John Abraham (a frontrunner, no question) who basically plays a preteen girl in an athletic man's body. There's Chunky Pandey, making Benny Hill look subtle. There's Boman Irani, screaming so much we get to know his tonsils. And there's Akshay Kumar, performing competently enough (as he routinely does in these Priyadarshanny piles of slop),
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