All the Best: Fun Begins
- Director
- Rohit Shetty
- Studio
- Ajay Devgn FFilmsKinesis Films
- Release Date
- 15 October 2009
- Running Time
- 141 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹41.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹61.00 Cr
Review
"All the Best: Fun Begins" is a film that thrives on comic chaos and the chemistry between its lead actors, even when the narrative machinery creaks audibly under the weight of its own complications. The premise—a cascade of lies involving a fake marriage, a botched car racing scheme, and a misidentified tenant—has genuine comedic potential, and director Rohit Shetty does extract moments of genuine laughter from the escalating absurdity. Ajay Devgn and Arjun Rampal share a rapport that makes their partnership believable, and there's an infectious energy to how they stumble from one disaster to the next. The film's strength lies not in plot coherence but in its willingness to embrace slapstick and situational humor, where the jokes land more often than they miss, particularly in the physical comedy sequences that define Shetty's style.
However, the film struggles with pacing and structural discipline. For a comedy that clocks nearly two and a half hours, there's considerable flab—scenes that repeat the same joke in diminishing returns, and a narrative that seems content to spin its wheels rather than build momentum toward a satisfying conclusion. The characterizations, particularly of the women, remain frustratingly one-dimensional; Vidya and Jhanvi exist primarily as objects around which the men's schemes revolve rather than as fully realized characters. The romance subplot feels obligatory, and the resolution, while not entirely unearned, doesn't justify the roundabout jour
Storyline
So basically, Veer is this aspiring musician trying to make it with his rock band, but he's pretty much broke. The only way he keeps his head above water is by getting Rs 100,000 every month from his rich older stepbrother Dharam, except there's this little problem—he's told Dharam that he's married to his girlfriend Vidya when he's actually not. His best buddy Prem is married to Jhanvi and was actually the one who came up with this whole lie scheme in the first place.
Now here's where things get messy. Prem and Veer are desperate to enter this underground car racing competition that could net them a huge prize—we're talking five million rupees! They need half a million rupees just to register, so they borrow it from this local loan shark named Tobu who doesn't speak. The guy is so convinced by Prem's car design that he puts in his own money too. But then Prem loses the race spectacularly, and now they owe Tobu a million rupees that they have to pay back within seven days.
To try to dig themselves out of this hole, Prem comes up with another scheme—he decides to rent out Veer's bungalow to this lottery-winning guy from the slums named RGV and collects an upfront payment of Rs 250,000. But of course, Murphy's Law kicks in when Dharam unexpectedly gets stuck at the Goa Airport and decides to surprise his little brother by showing up unannounced. And wouldn't you know it, when their new tenant arrives, Dharam mistakes him for someone else and beats him up, turning the whole situation into absolute chaos.
