Welcome 2 Karachi’, meant turn out to be remake of Hollywood hit ‘Dumb and Dumber’, is about two bumbling Indians who fetch up in Pakistan, and what happens subsequently. If you aren't being too picky - I wasn’t, warned with the presence of Jackky, he who spells it with two Ks, and the ‘2’ instead of the ‘two’ in the title-you can have yourself a bunch of guffaws.
One fine day Shammi (Arshad Warsi) and Kedar (Jackky Bhagnani) get in order to a cruise sail boat. The next thing they know, these types of washed up on a beach in Karachi, and find themselves falling in and out of numerous scrapes. This isn't kind of film where logic prevails, so please don’t bother with such pointless queries as ‘but how’? Why? Along come packs of gun-wielding types-colourful locals, mujahideens of all hues, a striking but clueless Pakistani ‘intelligence office’ (Lauren Gottlieb), and sundry many others. And our boys are on the run, towards India and freedom.
What’s nice might be that the film never pretends to be anything that it isn’t: it’s decidedly low-brow, low-rent, and refuses try itself seriously. So, of course the action unravels on a very obvious set masquerading as Karachi, that allows for many digs at our neighbour’s expense. But the jokes have a spread, slamming people on our side of the border too. Pot-shots are slung at the Americans, and other trigger-happy nations: the dreaded Taliban are not spared.
Jackky Bhagnani and Arshad Warsi make a serviceable pair, the first sort playing a gormless Gujju boy whose ‘kanjoos’ father (Dalip Tahil) would rather let the Pakistanis (or the light-eyed Baloch kidnappers, in this particular instance) keep his son rather than him (the tight-fisted father) cough up ransom money. Bhagnani misses a few beats but is willingly to be laughed at. Enable you to. Arashad Warsi looks a little out of it to begin with, and then settles down to being his reliable wry self, picking inside the ‘sur’ and buoying his co-star. An advantage to see this talented actor get screen-time.
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