Ready
- Director
- Anees Bazmee
- Studio
- T-Series FilmsSohail Khan ProductionsOne Up EntertainmentRawail Grandsons Entertainment & SoftwareWave Cinemas
- Release Date
- 2 June 2011
- Running Time
- 145 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹30.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹186.02 Cr
Review
Salman Khan's "Ready" is fundamentally a lazy film dressed up in the garish clothes of a blockbuster. Anees Bazmee, operating well below even his own mediocre standards, has constructed a plot so paper-thin that it barely survives its own runtime. The premise—a girl impersonating another girl, a boy pretending to be someone else, rinse and repeat—would work as a 90-minute romantic comedy with actual wit. Instead, we get a bloated 147-minute slapstick fest where the humor relies almost entirely on Khan's star power and physical comedy, neither of which can mask the creative bankruptcy on display. Govinda and Paresh Rawal are reduced to comic relief that isn't remotely funny, while Jacqueline Fernandez tries her best with Sanjana but is hamstrung by a character who makes no real decisions of her own.
What's most infuriating is that "Ready" proved the masses will lap up anything if it's packaged with Khan's charm and a decent music album. The film has no narrative coherence, the stakes are nonexistent, and the "climax" involving revelation after revelation feels like Bazmee throwing everything at the wall hoping something sticks. Khan goes through the motions with his trademark smirk—he doesn't need to act, and he knows it. The technical aspects are competent enough to keep things moving, but competence is the bare minimum, not a virtue. This is filmmaking as fast food: quick, disposable, and ultimately hollow.
Rating: 4/10
Storyline
So basically, this guy Prem is super quick-thinking and helps his friend Khushi run off with her boyfriend Raju. This totally ticks off Khushi's dad Abhinav and the whole Kapoor family, but Prem manages to smooth things over with his own family. To make peace, they arrange for Prem to marry someone named Pooja. But here's where it gets interesting — a girl named Sanjana who just bailed on her own wedding overhears Prem telling his uncle that he plans to back out of this marriage with Pooja.
Since the Kapoors haven't actually met Pooja yet, Sanjana decides to pretend to be her and moves in with Prem's family. Turns out she's pretty charming and wins them over pretty quickly. Meanwhile, her uncles Amar and Suraj are desperately hunting for a husband to get her married off. Things take a funny turn when Prem and Sanjana's car breaks down in the middle of a forest on the way to the airport, and they end up spending the night there — that's when Prem figures out that this Pooja girl is actually someone else after spotting her driver's license.
Even after discovering that Sanjana isn't who she claimed to be, the Kapoor family still wants her as Prem's bride. So Prem decides to go undercover, pretending to be the nephew of a chartered accountant who works for Sanjana's uncles. Through some clever scheming by the Kapoors, they eventually convince Amar and Suraj to agree to the wedding. After a bunch of dramatic revelations and explanations involving Sanjana's late mom, everything gets sorted out and everyone forgives each other.
