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WELCOME, directed by **Anees

Bazmee** is not up to the mark considering the fact that Bazmee was the one to give a the rib-tickling Hit "NO ENTRY".

WELCOME follows the same path as David Dhawan and Priyadarshan movies.

The mantra is simple: Lock your brains at home, and get ready to enter a world

where logic and sense have no place. Bazmee borrowed it from the Hollywood flick MICKEY BLUE EYES starring

Hugh Grant

. Coming to the plot of the movie:*

Uday Shetty [Nana Patekar], Majnu [Anil Kapoor] **and their boss,

Sikander [Feroz Khan], are three Hong Kong-based serio-comic

mobsters, who are keen to get Uday’s sister Sanjana [Katrina Kaif]married into a respectable family.

Uday, who

accidentally meets the handsome bachelor Rajiv [Akshay Kumar], gets

convinced that the latter would be an appropriate match for Sanjana.

Meanwhile, Sanjana, who is totally unaware of her brother’s plans, also

meets Rajiv separately and they fall in love. She has the acceptance of

Dr.Ghunghroo [Paresh Rawal], Rajiv’s uncle, who is unaware of the fact

that she is Uday’s sister. When Dr. Ghunghroo realizes his faux pas, he decides against the

marriage. The entire plot takes a U-turn when a stunning bombshell

[Mallika Sherawat] arrives on the scene and claims to be Rajiv’s wedded

wife, which only adds to the hullabaloo and chaos.

The first hour has several

humorous moments and you enjoy(for some time only), the one-liners that the characters delivers.

The sequences between

Nana and Mallika and also between Anil and Mallika are quite funny.

Also, the marathon portion at the funeral is good to watch. Loose ends is that the pace dips in the second hour, a jokes seem repetitive and therefore, don’t evoke the required mirth.

Also, the music could’ve been better. Only two songs come easy on your

lip [the ones that are promoted], but the chartbusting quality is

missing. ‘Uncha Lamba Kadh’ and

‘Tera Sarafa’ [Anand Raaj Anand] are the best tracks, but the

remaining songs are below average. The locales are of Dubai and South

Africa.

The

climax - the house collapse sequence is dissapointing since its all nonsense and overstreched to the point where one feels like skipping to "THE END".

Considering a formidable star cast the movie misses the punch that can keep viewers glued without blinking.  Akshay played his part gracefully and so did Paresh Rawal, Nana Patekar & Anil kapoor.

Akshay looks every inch the seedha-saadha

guy, who is torn between his lady love on one hand and the two factions

[Paresh versus Nana, Anil & Co.] on the other. Katrina gives her role the freshness that it demands, although she doesn't have much of her part in this guy centred flick.

Mallika Sherawat is like she's stuffed into just to stretch the story.

Feroz Khan is in the same role that he is doing for a while now. seeing him I felt that the movie is switched with the movie "JANASHEEN".

On the whole, If you're expecting a situational comedy without any nonsense comedy sequeces, this one is definitely not for you.

But still WELCOME is a one time watch. I expected a lot more than the director with the caliber of Anees Bazmee.