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My actual plan was the Bee Movie but ended up with Welcome. Well, I told my wife to get the ticket while I was meeting up with a good friend, hardware dealer, down-to-earth entrepreneur. Taking the opportunity, she got the tickets for Welcome instead and after seeing the movie, I think we made a good choice.

Of course, you have to leave your brains at home and don’t try to grow inside the theatre. No plot, no story per se, it is a plain setup but extremely enjoyable to watch and was a laughter riot.

The movie is about Dr. Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal) looking for a suitable bride for his nephew Rajiv (Akshay Kumar). The only criteria which turn-out to be an extremely difficult one for Ghunghroo was that the Bride’s family should have no illegal connections, conventional, and virtually no criminal records of any sorts.

At that juncture, Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar), a notorious Gang leader aka “Uday Don” was looking for a Groom for his sister, Sanjana (Katrina Kaif). And his wish was to get her married to a respectable family unlike him and his criminal relations.

Well, in the melee, Rajiv met Sanjana and they fell in love with each other in the typical Bollywood girl-boy romance masala formula complete with dance and song sequences.

BUT why do we need the story for a movie that just flows with funny moments, can tickle your funny bones and make you laugh all along. The only negative thing about the movie was that it over-does their jokes, acts a bit that tends to make you feel that it could have been shorter. The second half of the movie brings in Feroz Khan as the “Godfather” aka Sikander aka “RDS” of the two Dons - Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar) and Majnu (Anil Kapoor).

The songs reeks of the typical Himesh Reshammiya-ic flavor. Did I forgot to tell you that there is song-dance sequence of the sizzling, sexy and scanty clothed Malaika Arora Khan. And yes, there is the bombshell Mallika Sherawat too though she didn’t get much chance to show off her assets.

The locales of Dubai and South Africa give the film a grandiose look. The effects were of course amateurish at best (sorry Prime Focus) and were done more to show off than necessity. The climax scene of the House hanging on the clip was so prominently and glaringly childish. The erased and pasted portions of the scenes were seen and its blurred separation from the surrounding gave away.

Whatever … the movie was fund to watch and is worth the time spent.