Review of Housefull 5: It’s a crazy movie, but it doesn’t hold back and respects no boundaries. Humor is detrimental to one’s health. Housefull 5 Review
Delhi, New Delhi:
There is no benefit in claiming that a tiny line separates the completely absurd from the truly absurd. However, the creators of this thriller-comedy, the fifth installment of the Housefull series, have no idea that droll is not the same as dumb, and that fatuously fluffy is not the same as freakily amusing. The former is far more prevalent in the movie than the latter.
Producer Sajid Nadiadwala wrote Housefull 5, which was co-written and directed by Tarun Mansukhani (who is as known for the disastrous Drive as he is for the successful Dostana). The film is set on a luxurious cruise ship that ventures into stormy waters, never finding a way out of the deep end.
Housefull 5 hovers between the blatantly ridiculous and the utterly ridiculous, depending on gags that frequently go on for far too long. It should come as no surprise that the women in attendance—Jacqueliene Fernandez, Sonam Bajwa, Nargis Fakhri, Chitrangda Singh, and Soundarya Sharma—are used as props for the dancing sequences and for infrequent and ineffective attempts at pointless humor.
A horrific murder by a masked assassin on a cruise liner that has sailed to commemorate the 100th birthday of the seventh-richest business magnate in the United Kingdom opens Housefull 5. More killings occur, but the identity of the masked murderer is never revealed until two suspended British-Indian police officers arrive at the ship to look into the crimes. The chief of Interpol, who is also Indian and smokes a beedi, follows them.
This is a free-for-all, and the movie doesn’t miss any chance to suppress any rationality that might be attempting to break through the chaos and give the events the appearance of true craziness. Although Housefull 5 is hilarious, its respect-no-limits and pull-no-punches humor is detrimental to its own health.
That implies that at least a portion of the franchise’s devoted fan base won’t enjoy themselves while witnessing the antics of a group of fraudsters, intruders, and detectives aboard a liner that plunges into endless mayhem.
The money that Ranjeet Dobriyal (Ranjeet) accumulated and is awaiting his legitimate successor’s inheritance is claimed by not one, not two, but three men posing as Jolly, the alleged heir to the deceased businessman’s fortune, and his “wives.”
First on the scene are Zara (Sonam Bajwa) and Jalabuddin alias Jolly (Riteish Deshmukh), then Jalbhushan alias Jolly (Abhishek Bachchan) and Sasikala (Jacqueline Fernandez) and Julius alias Jolly (Akshay Kumar) and Kaanchi (Nargis Fakhri).
Members of Dobriyal’s motley “board of directors,” which includes Shiraz (Shreyas Talpade), Maya (Chitrangda Singh), Bedi (Dino Morea), and Dev (Fardeen Khan), the magnate’s son from his second wife, greet the guests with increasing annoyance and perplexity.
No one is above suspicion as the murders increase and the intruders go wild. Additionally, the picture entirely loses its direction as the rigmarole gets wilder, wackier, sillier, and nuttier, providing viewers plenty of opportunities to chuckle at the absurdity that is taking place on screen.
However, it is not always hard to understand why the constant drivel can simply find enough takers to never go out of style, even though all the nonsense goes out of hand and makes a joke of filmmaking.
If you don’t like what you see on screen, you might focus on the many forced allusions that Housefull 5 makes to the series’s earlier films, which started fifteen years ago, as well as to elements taken from other contemporary lores developed around Hindi films and movie star careers.
Once more, Akshay Kumar’s
character runs into problems with monkeys (as he did in the first Housefull) and a macaw (as in Housefull 4, a movie that didn’t have much to offer a discriminating audience but fared well at the box office).
In Housefull 5, Boman Irani is conspicuously absent, although his Batuk Patel is heavily featured, with Johny Lever filling in as the chatty and careless security guard on the cruise ship. The actor’s Chennai Express character, Thangabali, is suitably acknowledged as Nikitin Dheer dons the outfit of the ship’s muscular captain.
Jackie Shroff and Sanjay Dutt portray Baba and Bhiddu, respectively, who are misnamed. To catch the murderer on the loose, the insane police officers make their way to the ship. Every time Dutt appears on screen, the soundtrack plays an instrumental version of the main song from Nayak Nahin Khalnayak Hoon.
The term that first comes to mind when trying to understand and get past the film’s crude and mostly misguided attempts to make us laugh is nalayak, which is substituted for khalnayak at one point.
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Finally, with Fugdi fu blaring away as he arrives and puts the cat among the pigeons, Nana Patekar, the chief of Interpol, is allowed all the headroom he needs to embody his Marathi manoos moorings.
He teaches the men and ladies on the cruise ship the motions that define the folk-dance genre after establishing his reputation as a man who knows too much but not enough. Everyone participates and appears to be enjoying themselves. Housefull 5 Review However, what about the people who have paid to witness this insane spectacle?
Housefull 5 would not have come across as such an unrestrained celebration of the absurd if it weren’t so full of unalloyed trash. We did not sign up for this, so let’s not mince words.
The pitifully weak plot of Housefull 5 hinders the boldly shaky comedy. There are two versions at the multiplexes, but this critic has only seen one.
