Rascals Movie Reviews

David Dhawan gets wild, wacky... and naughty! He's back to the 'spicy' films he churned out with amazing regularity [and with great success] in the 1990s. RASCALS sees the original badshaah of non-stop laughathons revisit the genre, after a hiatus. Let me describe RASCALS in few words: funny, outrageous, hilarious, uproarious and most importantly, entertaining. In fact, the title as well as the promos of the film had prepared us well in advance

On the whole, RASCALS is a madcap, over the top, zany entertainer aimed at the masses. It’s hilarious and outrageous from commencement to conclusion. If this kind of humor appeals to you, then there are chances that you will relish this one!

Pay your ticket fare, buy your popcorn and take your seat. RASCALS does not promise to involve you in the scheme of things. However, it does promise entertainment. f you go looking for logic you won't find any. But you will find loopholes aplenty. If you just want to have a good time, RASCALS gives you that. And a few good laughs as well. Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt are two conmen out to outwit the other. Both, in a way, stepped on the toes of bad man

David Dhawan returns to the screen after a prolonged hiatus. And sadly, he returns with a film that ain't too fresh and reminds you of his earlier venture, Deewana Mastana, with Govinda and Anil Kapoor trying to outwit each other in order to curry favour with Juhi Chawla. What's more unnerving is the fact that Rascals isn't as funny as the earlier one, where Govinda created a laugh riot with his 'baby steps' and psychiatrist Juhi was worth all the squabbling and sneaking

David Dhawan was the pioneer of the farcical films genre with the kind of comedies he made through the 90s. However mindless his films might have been, it still had an inherent sense of humour and assured a few good laughs. Sadly, in the subsequent decade, all he served in the name of stress-free slapsticks is noise and commotion. While we aren't demanding that the filmmaker upgrade with times, all we expect is that the one-time king of comedy

The humour in Rascals is too loud and often unfunny while Kangna Ranaut is too hysterical and dumb-headed to evoke all the trouble and attention. Okay, so dumbness can be excused in Bollywood comedies which ostensibly revel in low IQ gags.

Seriously, the script writer – what were you thinking when you wrote such embarrassing lines taken straight from the walls of a private toilet?

Recycling paper is nice. Recycling movies? Now that's plain lame. But director David Dhawan has never been the discerning sort. He painstakingly built his brand around cheesy, slapstick wit, resolutely steering clear of logic, relying on spontaneity and a cast skilled in comedy to accomplish the shtick to which his coterie of writers like Rumi Jaffrey, Anees Bazmee, Sanjay Chhel, Kader Khan and Yunus Sajawal have contributed immensely.

At some point in this pointless parody of all of David Dhawan's Tom and Jerry comedies from the past, Devgn and Dutt, playing a pair of warring, snaping, snarling, sneering con-persons, call for each other. 'Chetan? Bhagat? Chetan? Bhagat? …." In that pause between the last blast and the next you know the script writer (Yunuz Sajawal) is thinking of how to carry the plot to the next gag. Wish they had actually roped in author Chetan Bhagat to write some

Rascals, with no structure or motive, cannot (rather does not even try to) conceal its desperation to make itself funny. And this insecurity shows in each and every gag.

The two main blokes in this movie are called Chetan Chauhan or Chetooji, and Bhagat Bhosle aka Bhagguji, named after, we presume, Chetan Bhagat, popular writer of lowbrow English fiction. These fellows play small-time thugs, conmen; out to kill each other’s game. It might be of interest to viewers to know exactly who they are, besides the characters they fake. A background might take, maybe a minute or two, to explain. The writers couldn’t care less.

Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn play rival con artistes in director David Dhawan's 'Rascals', a third-rate comedy that borders on the offensive. Dutt's character, Chetan, poses as a social worker and motivational speaker who's trying to dupe a rich socialite out of her crores. Devgn's character, Bhagat, pretends to be a blind Naval officer so he can get his paws on the same girl. Kangana Ranaut is Khushi, the lady in question, who is repeatedly fondled, groped

Mujhe...' The heroine with sand-between-teeth voice shrieks. 'Mujhe, kyaaaaaa?' chorus the con duo suitors, one bad guy, and the loud priest, all shouting so much you can see the vocal chords on their necks strain. 'Raatbhar...' she screams again. 'Raatbhar kya?' They scream. 'Bed par...' she shouts. 'Bed par kyaaaaa?' They shout back. 'Failaa kar rakhha thaa.' She is incoherently loud now. But her dialogue is drowned out by Tom and Jerry sounds, cymbals

No one has probably abused the term 'Kuch bhi chalta hai' as often as David Dhawan. Rascals is yet another example. This supposed comic caper revolves around two con men ?Chetan Chauhan (Sanjay Dutt) and Bhagat Bhosle (Ajay Devgn) ?who go around stealing cars, suitcases and whatever else they can lay their hands on. The two soon collide and start conning each other. Then they fall in love with the same woman Khushi (Kangna Ranaut), who traipses around

Two conmen trying to outsmart each other. What else? Two conmen trying to outsmart each other. And? Nothing. When David Dhawan was on the top of his game, this one line would have been enough for him to toss out a flick filled with a gazillion laughs. Not a measured smile, but helpless laughter, the kind that comes barreling out when you have no choice. When it came to full on idiocy, or fun-on-the-run, Dhawan was the one. I use the past tense

Donate your cash to charity instead of wasting it on this wretched film!

Two conmen trying to outsmart each other. What else? Two conmen trying to outsmart each other. And? Nothing.

Oh dear. Where to begin with the film, Rascals. Sometimes the level that our writers go to recreate a hit can be baffling.

The length of his hair changes shot-to-shot One moment he’s bald, then he’s not, That’s all the acting you will see of this fella, Sanju Baba, you rascalla! If Mausam ticked off the Indian Air Force, Then the Navy should cry themselves hoarse, For he maligns them, he’s such a killa, Ajay Devgn, you rascalla! First in a bikini, then in a frock, Her acting akin to a rock, So how big was that chequella, Kangna Ranaut, you rascalla? Your intelligence it will insult

Rascals Review by Komal Nahta: Biz Rating:1.5. What's Good:A few comic scenes; the Shake it saiyyan song. What's B...