Welcome To The Jungle Review: If you are going to the theater for 'Welcome to the Jungle' thinking that you will get to see a very deep, mental or a film with a big social message, then cancel your ticket immediately. Because such films come to the theater not for logic or reasoning, but only for mindless laughter and full-on entertainment. If we say in just one line about this film made under the direction of Ahmed Khan, then 'Welcome to the Jungle' is a mad-cap comedy film that makes you forget everything and laugh.
Often the jokes that critics find a bit strange or cheap are the ones that the general public sitting inside the theater laughs the most at. Akshay Kumar This film is not made for big-worded reviews, but for those viewers who want to leave aside the tension of the day and laugh openly for a few moments. But is this film just a mindless joke or does it give you full value for your money inside the theatre? Was this multi-starrer able to do justice to the cult status of the 'Welcome' franchise? To know the answers to all these questions, you will have to read this complete review.
What will happen when a cunning leader (politician) sitting on a mountain of black money plays a strange trick to legally whiten his black empire worth crores of rupees? He makes a master plan that he will make the biggest flop film in the history of Bollywood, so that all his money gets drowned in huge losses and everything becomes clean on paper! 'Welcome to the Jungle' is a film woven on this unique and strange fabric.
This leader, ready to face a loss of crores, hires two great film makers, their names are Dev (Rajpal Yadav) and Das (Paresh Rawal) to complete this impossible mission. Both of them are given the task of making a film only so that it may flop. Now for the film, both of them together gather a flop actor (Akshay Kumar), two dons (Sunil Shetty and Arshad Warsi) along with an entire army of flop actors, Bhojpuri actors and TV actors from all over the world. But the real twist in the story comes when the mission to make the biggest flop of all, takes the entire platoon to an isolated village nestled in the middle of the forest, filled with old rivalries, misunderstandings, madness and strange challenges. Now can these strange makers together complete that flop film? Does this crooked and unique plan of that leader succeed? To know this you will have to go to the theater and watch Welcome to the Jungle.
Akshay Kumar, Arshad and Tusshar
'Welcome to the Jungle' is a mass entertainer film, this film directly connects the audience in metro cities as well as the heart of our country i.e. single screens and mass pockets. The first half of the film is a bit slow. Only 35 minutes of the beginning are spent in creating the base of the story, and the journey of laughter that starts after that makes the audience laugh and this is perhaps the first time in the history of Bollywood that even in the interval of the film, a song filmed on Akshay Kumar and Disha Patani has been shown.
Seeing Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon together on screen after so many years is no less than a big surprise. Earlier we had seen their romance and amazing chemistry, but the kind of comedy done by both of them in this film is worth watching. When Raveena Tandon, seeing Akshay Kumar, utters the dialogue, 'Where were you for 20 years?' So the theater echoes with applause. The second half (post-interval) of the film is funny, we cannot stop it even if we want to, but Ahmed Khan has tried to add so many spices and twists to the story that at some places the film loses its pace and shine.
After a huge flop like 'Baaghi 4', no one had much expectations from director Ahmed Khan. But he has made an amazing comeback in this film. It was not an easy task to handle such a huge and huge star cast and to give proper space to each actor on the screen. But Ahmed Khan understood the USP (strength) of each actor and wrote his characters and punches accordingly. The dialogues of the film make one laugh till stomach ache at many places.
Even though there is a whole host of stars on the screen in Welcome to the Jungle, Akshay Kumar is the helmsman of this whole boat. With his amazing comic timing and acting, he carries the entire film on his shoulders. Sunil Shetty and Arshad Warsi have done excellent work in their respective roles. The trio of Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav and Shreyas Talpade have made a tremendous impact as on-screen film makers. As always, Johnny Lever steals the show in just a few of his scenes. But the real life and the biggest turning point of this film are the characters of Azadganj village. The film goes to a different level with the entry of Farida Jalal, Raveena Tandon and Kiran Kumar. Jackie Shroff is fantastic as the villain. However, Disha Patani and Jacqueline Fernandes did not have much to do, they got very limited screen time. All the actors have tried to give justice to their characters.
Akshay's Welcome 3
If you like movies that give a deep message or have a lot of logic in their story, then this movie can give you a headache. The first half of the film seems a bit long and dull at some places, which could have been made a little more crisp on the editing table.
Overall, it is not necessary that every film gives a message of improving the society or entertains the audience by showing scenes of violence. Entertainment is also a major purpose of cinema and 'Welcome to the Jungle' fulfills the same purpose. As a great man has said in Son of Sardar, Hey Paaji, please laugh sometime, this film follows exactly this philosophy. Just as every kind of food is necessary to change the taste, similarly this film strikes a good balance amidst the falling comic standards of Bollywood. If you just want to laugh without any mental exercise, then this film can prove to be worth every penny for you.
