Golmaal Again
- Director
- Rohit Shetty
- Studio
- Reliance Entertainment
- Release Date
- 19 October 2017
- Running Time
- 152 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹70.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹310.98 Cr
Review
Rohit Shetty's "Golmaal Again" is a film that mistakes nostalgia for narrative and spectacle for substance. The premise—a ragtag orphanage crew reuniting after twenty-five years to confront both their past and supernatural forces—had genuine potential for something meaningful beneath the trademark chaos. Instead, what we get is Shetty doing what he does best: throwing absurdity at the screen and hoping the volume masks the hollow center. Ajay Devgn, Parineeti Chopra, and the ensemble cast are game enough, but they're asked to carry a film that splits itself schizophrenically between slapstick comedy, ghost-house horror-lite, and forced emotional beats about found family. The orphanage sentimentality feels grafted on, a transparent attempt to give weight to what is fundamentally a franchise comedy that had long since exhausted its wit.
What actually works—and this cannot be ignored—is the sheer mechanical efficiency of the filmmaking. Shetty knows his audience, knows the formula, and executes it with professional competence. The set pieces are competently shot, the pacing keeps things moving, and there are moments of genuine humor buried in the debris. But competence is not the same as excellence, and certainly not the same as originality. The supernatural elements feel tacked on rather than integrated, serving only as a thin wrapper around tired slapstick. The film makes money because it's comfortable, because it understands exactly what segments of the audience want to see,
Storyline
So basically, there are these five guys who grew up together in an orphanage run by this businessman named Joy Jamnadas. They're all pretty quirky—one of them is terrified of ghosts, another can't talk, and one has a speech impediment. They all lived together as kids and found this baby girl they called Khushi, but after some drama and a prank gone wrong, they all end up leaving the orphanage and going their separate ways. Years pass and they become these shady guys who basically steal land for crime bosses, which is pretty wild when you think about it.
Fast forward twenty-five years and the gang gets word that Jamnadas has died, so they all come back to the orphanage for his memorial service. When they return, they bump into some familiar faces from their past including this old colonel who's gone blind, the woman who could always see ghosts, and even some other former orphans. Turns out there's a mansion nearby where some mysterious stuff has been happening, and they learn that Chauhan's daughter passed away. It's actually pretty emotional seeing them reunite after all those years.
Things get really interesting when this greedy developer shows up planning to tear down the orphanage and build his own thing there, but the old librarian lady and the colonel decide to fight back by renting out some rooms. Once the guys leave and head home, weird paranormal stuff starts happening—like actually supernatural events that'll have you wondering what's really going on. Without spoiling anything, let's just say the ghost situation gets pretty intense and tied into what happened back in the day.
