Welcome Back: Not a patch

Cast: Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Shruti Haasan, Paresh Rawal, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia
Rated: 5/10
Welcome back! Not really guys because this one is a return to a title which originally was quite a runaway hit. The reboot, sadly — and without the towering presence of Akshay Kumar — is just a scream — a plain, simple and meaningless yell from start to finish.
Not that the veteran Nana Patekar and the swagger-king Anil Kapoor do not try to save the film with their funny ones but they are mostly too little, too far.
Though Paresh Rawal has patented his confused bumbler comedy act, he is the same old in this one and with a much lesser genuine punch.
It is a bad choice to have gotten in beefcake John Abraham in place of Akshay as he gives nothing much to the film except botoxed muscles which may ripple constantly in his pumped up body but fail to create any ripple whatsoever in the film. Top that with his miscalculated tapori act and you have no chemistry either with the role or with Shruti Haasan whom he tries to romance even as the behen key bhai go crazy trying to prevent a gunda mawali from entering their reformed household.
The otherwise gorgeous Dimple Kapadia has been done in in the film with not just an over-the-top role of a conwoman but also with the garish outfits this lovely lady has been made to wear.
The film could have some better dialogues though some one-liners, through the understated histrionics of Nana Patekar save the grace for this much loved title.
Naseeruddin Shah as Wanted Bhai does his bit from his isolated island palace though he too makes no sense, none at all. And you really pity Shiny Ahuja for getting his two-bit comeback to screen role which is thoroughly mismatched with his earlier (read intense) stint in the industry. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, September 6, 2015

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