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control in the narration.

Throughout we see the team’s desperation to get noticed. Hence Tusshar Kapoor mimicry of a mute man’s monosyllabism is twice as insolent as compared to the earlier films in the farcical franchise.

Shreyas Talpade’s lisp is far more aggravated. And Sanjay Mishra’s nonsensical lines based on references to celebrated people (example: “Justin Bieber ke besure aulad”) is three times more nerve-grating than medically acceptable.

Golmaal Again

STARRING: Ajay Devgan, Tabu, Parineeti Chopra, plus the usual Golmaal gang

DIRECTOR: Rohit Shetty

Rohit Shetty has actually made a Golmaal film without speeding cars crashing into one another.

And that’s about the sign of maturity you will see in this franchise which seems designed for the mentally challenged.

Car crashes are the least of the worries in this, the fourth and arguably the unfunniest film in the Golmaal series. There are other catastrophes awaiting our attention in this stretched-out horror of a comedy.

The writing is so frail as to be almost non-existent. From Frame 1, the narrative saturates itself with bright inviting colours in the hope that they would dazzle us into surrender and acceptance. There is, however, a quivering absence of credibility and self-

Throughout this non-stop binge of vapid gags, Ajay Degan remains sportingly in the shadows, blending with his costars’ antics which include getting into Talpade’s lap each night as he sings a parody version of the Lata lullaby Zu zu zu zu, with a touching team spirit that would have held him in good stead were he doing a film about, say, a football team fighting to win against all odds.

Here, Devgan’s sporting spirit is sadly misused to give the film a misleading face-value.

Many other enormously talented actors like Sanjay Mishra, Sachin Khedekar, Kunal Khemu and Ashwini Kalsekar are content playing perky props in this droopy comedy-horror where it’s hard to say when the comedy ends and the horror begins.