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All The Best Movie Review

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All The Best - Fiestas of Fun 'n' Frolic

IndiaGlitz [Friday, October 16, 2009]

It's all about bringing creative reunion of Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty together. The duo has indeed spelled success with B-town's catchphrase 'Golmaal' and never wants to get out-of-this box of comedy. Make it clear-cut!!! 'All The Best' makes Ajay Devgn, one of the most leading bankable men with his close pal Rohit's nitty-gritty essence on drawing towards jocose quotients. Apparently, this flick doesn't strike with a clichd tone of 'Golmaal series' - more unsympathetic towards audiences, who strongly hate double entendres. Loaded with many actors and innumerable supporting star-casts, 'All The Best' offers a best deal to 'Kill Your Time' out with this passable show. Veer (Fardeen Khan) is a singer by profession. Veer in greed of extracting extra pocket money from his step-brother Dharam (Sanjay Dutt), a business-honcho from London, tries to lie about his single status and puts it forth as 'happily married'. His friend Prem (Ajay Devgan), a concept car expert, lends a helping hand in this falsely embossed projection.

Veer is in love with Vidya (Mugdha Godse) but has qualified in the hate list of her father. Prem is happily married to Jhanvi (Bipasha Basu) who takes care of his ancestor's out dated Gymnasium. Veer and Prem land up in debts as they had opted for a short-cut to earn easy money.

The two get into a bigger soup when Veer's step-brother, Dharam pays a sudden visit to their place. Time does not give a chance and unavoidable circumstances arouse such situations that Prem's wife Jhanvi is mistaken for Veer's and Veer's girlfriend for Prem's.

What unfolds next is a series of comedy of errors leading to unexpected turmoils with fun-fare.

Rohit Shetty never seems to strain himself in experimenting serious motifs over the screens. But, 'Comedy' is the most complicated genre a filmmaker should handle with. With this term, Rohit gears up with fortitudes on delivering not-so rib-tickling ones, but sort of elements that keeps you smiling for next hours. Altho' you're exposed to what the film is all about merely within few moments, it really drags you out in pre-intermission part. But when there's Sanju, things start taking a different course of action. Ajay Devgn sways around with comedic one-liners and best gestures. Watch him emoting to flummoxing scenarios with Sanjay Dutt, he enthralls out making us a thigh-slapper. Fardeen Khan previous Friday 'Acid Factory' won him credits on a serious role and this time he makes it appealing on a contrastive character. Sanjay Dutt carries off his portions with an ease and unstrained manner while Bipasha Basu adds nothing big on the screens except her usual funda of glam-show. Mugdha Godse fails to impress us with her minimal role and she could've got yet more prominence. Blame Rohit Shetty for it.

Rohit Shetty brings you an unimaginable gang of star-casts that aren't much necessary to the script. But Johnny Lever keeps the momentum moving in perfect terms as he appears and breaks his silence in latter part. Pritham's musical score doesn't capture your senses; expect couple of tunes done with mediocre. Cinematography brings you the eye-catching visuals and nothing else more to appreciate on technical terms. Finally, 'All The Best' proves to be a Blackhorse in box office with best enough ingredients of savoring to the audiences.

Verdict: Enjoy the jolly-ride

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LOL, this movie was funny, like, I laughed alot throughout the entire time. Mughda and Bipasha were both just amazingly pretty, and Sanjay's just oldddddd. I didn't like Ajay at all, Fardeen was also ehh. It just got a bit long at the end, I was like 'just end already!'; like they kept on streching it. Overall, it was a timepass comedy. I'd give it a 3/5.

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B.O. update: 'Blue' starts with a bang, 'ATB' average, 'MAMK' poor

- By Taran Adarsh, October 17, 2009 - 08:25 IST

The much-awaited Diwali week witnessed the clash of three biggies - BLUE, ALL THE BEST and MAIN AURR MRS. KHANNA. Expectedly, BLUE stole the march, taking one of the biggest starts ever. The film has done remarkable business on Day 1. ALL THE BEST found appreciation, but that didn't translate into a huge start. Yet, the film was in the 40% - 50% range. The business is expected to show an increase on Saturday. MAIN AURR MRS. KHANNA had the lowest start amongst the three releases, opening in 10% - 15% range.

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/trade/boxoffice_update/index.html

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Movie Review: All The Best

16 Oct 2009, 1940 hrs IST, Gaurav Malani, ET Bureau

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Director: Rohit Shetty
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mughda Godse

Rating: ***

Supposedly based on an American play Right Bed Wrong Husband, Rohit Shetty's All The Best is modeled as a comedy of mistaken identities finding its desi-siblings in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chukpe Chupke and Anees Bazmee's No Entry. Though not as simple as the former or smart as latter, the comedy still clicks with its unstable blend of story, style, sense, slapstick and stunts.

Despite their love for each other, Veer (Fardeen Khan) and Vidya (Mughda Godse) strangely prefer pretending as a wedded duo (over getting married) to get their monthly pocket money from NRI brother Dharam (Sanjay Dutt). Dharma unexpectedly lands in India and mistakes Jhanvi (Bipasha Basu) as Vidya. Jhanvi's husband Prem (Ajay Devgan) is compelled to cook up continual story to conceal the con.

Mughda Godse shocks in the opening scene with a 'sari' state-of-affairs. Fardeen looks fat and Ajay Devgan tries too hard to look cool in cartoon t-shirts and fine-tuned facial hair only to be mistaken by Sanjay Dutt as a driver (not his fault). With his trademark tendency to exaggerate action in the film, Rohit Shetty does Golmaal in the script stuffing a mandatory car-race sequence. Fardeen Khan's rock-band track doesn't contribute to the narrative at all and the following fight sequence is visibly forced.

Nevertheless the humour works since the treatment is not fully farcical but also has a plot primarily focused on mistaken identities. The screenplay by Robin Bhatt and Yunus Sejawal does resort to intermediate slapstick but the comic timing of characters and the spontaneity in their animated acts keeps the spark live. The gags range from some silly and stretched ones to some fresh and funny lines. The title track is groovy but beyond that Pritam's music doesn't stay with you.

The caricatured characterizations of the supporting cast are amusing. After being the only endurable character from last year's slapstick One Two Three where he imitated yesteryear villain Jeevan, Sanjay Mishra attempts aping Pran this time to equally hilarious outcome. Ashwini Kalsekar as the Madrasi maid is loud but laugh-inducing. For a pleasant change, Johnny Lever plays a mute mafia don and you don't mind his histrionics when he gains his vocal chords in the climax. Vinay Patkar as his interpreter is funny and so in Atul Parchure.

Rohit Shetty continues his brand of chaos, confusion and commotion in the bulletproof climax. While that's still acceptable, what's absolutely uncalled for in this madness is an African clone of Bipasha Basu that figures out from nowhere and only invites idiocy and ridicule towards the end.

From the cast, Sanjay Dutt is the scene-stealer with his impeccable coming timing and expressive repartees. He looks fresh and one can sense him enjoy playing his part, unlike some of his recent releases where he appears dull and disinterested. Fardeen's character seems straight out of No Entry and thankfully he does equally well. Ajay Devgan has a standard set of expressions for comedies, which he uses effectively. Bipasha Basu looks cute in those frocks and frills and plays her part well. Mughda Godse has less screen-time and screen-presence than the side-comedians.

All The Best is the best bet this Diwali.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5132167.cms

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All the best – a comedy you can take your mom to (Hindi Film Review)

Film; 'All The Best'; Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mugdha Godse; Directed by: Rohit Shetty; Rating: ** 1/2

In his first really decent and meaty role since 'Munnabhai', Dutt gets into the satirical groove effortlessly and fluently playing a visiting Bade Bhaiyya from abroad whom his kid brother Fardeen Khan (tolerably befuddled) must fool into believing he's married and decent.

The guys in Rohit Shetty's comedies are anything but decent. Rascals and rogues of the first order, Devgn and Khan are splendidly supported by a sparkling cast of comic actors ranging from Asrani to Johnny Lever to the wonderful Ashwini Kalsekar (remember how cheesy and charming she was in Rohit Shetty's 'Gol Maal Returns?') to Sanjay Mishra (as a zonked out wannabe householder who says 'Just chill' as though his tongue had just been through a sugarcane-juice machine).

The screenplay (Robin Bhatt) juices the material for all it's worth. The constant flow of cheesy-breezy dialogues is littered with high-school humour but blessedly no vulgarity. This is one comedy you could take your mom to see without once walloping a wince into the wanton soup.

The burlesque is fast-paced though surprisingly restrained and has room galore for PJs. The one-liners are so silly and graffiti-like in their basic humour, you can't but titter at the trivia wrapped in gloss that makes welcome room for Pritam's pacy music without getting in the way of the one-liners.

So ok. This one doesn't leave you… er blue in the face. The comedy is purely situational and the style purely 'Rohit Shetty'. That means a bit of slapstick, a bit of that rapidly-moving tongue in the cheek, and a lot of Ajay Devgn.

And if you add Sanjay Dutt to the bubby buncy comic brew… man, you've got a show that's on the road from the word go. This time the setting, if you must know, is Goa.

Shetty doesn't use the touristic spot as a character. You suspect he places his colony of characters in the Goan location so they could all be camera-framed into a streamlined stampede.

There are only three female characters in the show, the rest are all guys playing conmen, goons, gangsters, wheeler dealers, warriors and worriers all of whom display an exemplary comic strength.

Sanjay Dutt gets it right after a long time. He has a lot of fun doing his part and he lets us share his enjoyment. Ajay Devgn's comic timing has gotten rapidly dead-on under Shetty's tutelage. He gives Dutt tit for tat, and then some more.

Not all the material is uniformly amusing. Towards the finishing line you do begin to wonder how much longer it would take this wonky wacky world of wispy and reparable wickedness to set itself right.

http://trak.in/news/all-the-best-a-comedy-you-can-take-your-mom-to-hindi-film-review/15025/

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Midweek: 'Blue' leads, 'All The Best' picks up, 'MAMK' is poor

- By Taran Adarsh, October 20, 2009 - 08:20 IST

Film	Cast	Plusses	Minusses	Verdict
Blue	Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Zayed Khan, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif [sp. app.], Rahul Dev, Kabir Bedi, Kylie Minogue	A slick film with mind-blowing action and incredible underwater sequences	Waferthin storyline and weak climax	Has had a fantastic first 4 days [Friday to Monday]. While the business dipped on Saturday [pooja], it was fabulous on Sunday and Monday. It's one of the biggest openers of the year, despite the screens getting divided amongst three big films in the Diwali week
All The Best	Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mugdha Godse, Johny Lever, Sanjay Mishra, Mukesh Tiwari, Vijay Patkar, Ashwini Kalsekar, Atul Parchure	Wholesome entertainer with excellent comedy	Music	Was ordinary to dull on Friday and Saturday, but picked up dramatically on Sunday and Monday. In fact, the business was close to BLUE at several screens. The film has been appreciated tremendously and should maintain the pace on coming days
Main Aurr Mrs Khanna	Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sohail Khan, Yash Tonk, Mahek Chahal, Nauheed Cyrusi, Bappi Lahiri, Preity Zinta [sp. app.], Deepika Padukone [sp. app.], Dino Morea [sp. app.]	Kareena Kapoor	Weak script	Was poor on Friday and Saturday, picked up marginally on Sunday and Monday, but not enough. The clash with BLUE and ALL THE BEST has cost the film dear
Wake Up Sid	Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Namit Das, Shikha Talsania, Rahul Khanna, Kashmira Shah	A well-made film in all respects. Also, Ranbir Kapoor's super performance	Slows down in second hour	Multiplex Hit. Overall average, due to its costs
Wanted	Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Vinod Khanna, Mahesh Manjrekar, Prakash Raj, Govind Namdeo, Mahek Chahal, Aseem Merchant, Raju Mavani, Inder Kumar, Manoj Pahwa, Prateeksha Lonkar	Full on masala film with a power-packed performance by Salman Khan	Waferthin plot	Hit

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This movie was awesome !!!! Supherb comedy , highly recommended to everyone

Ajay n Sanjay have great comic timing ! Fardeen was ok , Mughda n Bips looked pretty

On the whole , a great movie

i'll rate it 3.5/5

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THE COMEDIES OF HRISHIKESH MUKHERJEE appear to hold some sort of talismanic sway over Rohit Shetty. Earlier, the director merely invoked a title (Golmaal). In All the Best, he incorporates entire clips from Chupke Chupke (Amitabh Bachchan explaining to a befuddled Dharmendra the mechanics of their place-switching) and Golmaal (Utpal Dutt ripping the moustache off Amol Palekar), suggesting that this film, too, has people switching places before fake identities are unmasked. Depending on your tolerance for hit-or-miss comedies that include stretches of spoken Swahili (I kid you not), you might periodically crack a watery smile. But the only portions that made me laugh were those involving the gloriously demented Johny Lever , armed with the antics of the mute Sir Judah from Karz. Forget the others (Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Mugdha Godse), Lever is the real star of this show. Why don't we see more of him on screen these days?