Housefull 3: Laughter challenged

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaqueline Fernandes, Nargis Fakhri, Lisa Haydon, Boman Irani

Rated: 4/10

You expect the kitsch. You expect the buffoonery. You, in fact, await the roller-coaster, nonsensical, loud stupid humour. But that doesn’t happen and Housefull 3 instantly falls into the crevice of an un-happening mount sniggering on its brand value and that of its lead actor Akshay Kumar.

Now Akshay Kumar is all gung-ho in the film, even emulsifying into a twin role as Sandy and Sundy, the latter a pathological rioter who turns so every time he hears the word ‘Indian’.

Rest of them, including Riteish Deshmukh and new entrant Abhishek Bachchan, are all ‘maa ki behen ki’ as the film keeps repeating sometimes in a rap, sometimes in a song and sometimes as background score just to make impact, some kind of, any kind of impact.

What kills the film and all the effort of the dudes, bimbos and Boman Irani and his PJ one-liners (the only attraction in the film) is its complete alienation with funny those ones. Whatever is attempted is rather deliberate and thus tediously generated. As compared to the earlier franchises, this one comes way below in the laughter quotient and considering that laughter is the only medicine for such otherwise terminally ill films, not having it questions the basic existence of such a caper.

Despite this huge malfunction, Akshay shines in his effort as do Riteish and AB Jr, to a certain extent. Lisa Haydon is miscast, Nargis Fakhri way away from even being a sideshow and Jaqueline is the only saving grace, though one can give very few grace marks to Housefull 3.