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![]() Four playful con-men (Devgan, Warsi, Joshi, Kapoor) indebted to Vasool bhai (Tiwari), find themselves at a beautiful house while on the run. After a night of snooping, they learn that the residents, a blind couple (Rawal & Mukherjee) are awaiting their grandson Sameer's return. Laxman (Joshi) is forced by his partners in crime into physically pretending to be Sameer. His refusal to speak once thrown into the soup leads Gopal (Devgan) to become Sameer's voice. As the foursome impersonate the grandson and try to conceal the existence of three extra people in the house, sidesplitting one-liners and uproarious situations arrive aplenty. Devgan and Warsi carry off their comedy as experienced campaigners. Tusshar Kapoor as the vocally challenged man follows up his comic streak from "Kya Kool Hai Hum", successfully holding his own in this poutpurri of comedians. Paresh Rawal's comic timing as always, is a delight to watch. Susmita Mukherjee who has longed for a good comic role since her "Karamchand" days ably supports Rawal in the role of his wife. The immensely talented Sharman Joshi however, emerges as the real star of "Golmaal", his ability to easily switch between deadpan humor and spontaneous, comic vibrancy proving to be his forte. Unlike Hrishikesh Mukherjee's unsurpassable 1979 classic of the same name, Shetty's "Golmaal" suffers from a tonal break, shifting into a heavy emotional and dramatic mode at the climax, an annoying practice often seen in numerous Hindi comedies. One wishes the laughathon had continued unbroken, but in the wider scheme of things, five minutes of drama out of 150 minutes of non-stop laughter is perhaps an excusable shortcoming.
Yet "Golmaal" survives its flaws and ludicrousness because the film does not take itself seriously. It's playful nature makes it a movie that cannot be overanalyzed. "Golmaal" arrives as a welcome, solid, popcorn-for-the-mind summer flick. Illogical, implausible, and inconceivable, it lives up to its tagline - Fun Unlimited.
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