Being a Arshad Warsi starrer film expectation were riding high on the movie ‘Welcome 2 Karachi’ but it ended up being a mess. The script miserably failed to tickle the funny bones of the audiences and apart from few scenes there is nothing worth watching in the film. The music is too loud that becomes unbearable after a certain point of time and the special effects are done pathetically which do not carry any relevance to the script. The movie portrays the shade of the popular Hollywood comedy film ‘Dumb and Dumber’ in quite many scenes yet it dies away with its humour. Talking about the performance of the actors, we have seen all three of them doing better in their previous films. Arshad Warsi is an intense actor who has proved his talent with all the movies he has done, but sadly this movie failed to use his talent. We have also seen a better performance of Jackky Bhagnani and Lauren Gottlieb in ‘F.A.L.T.U’ and ‘ABCD’ respectively, but Lauren is only seen occasionally in this movie. In short ‘Welcome 2 Karachi’ falls below average and is filled with flaws.
Welcome 2 Karachi is India's unfunny and exhausting answer to Dumb and Dumber. The antics of these fools annoy more than tickle the funny bone. The script fails miserably to make their ignorance and naivety endearing. Apart from a handful of funny one-liners and few sequences, there is really little worth watching in the film. The laughter tracks in the background score are desperate attempts to remind audiences that these are humorous moments. You may think that looking for accuracy and insight in a film like Welcome 2 Karachi is expecting too much, but if the generous creative liberties taken don't result in an entertaining film then one has to fault the filmmakers even more. Welcome 2 Karachi is a comedy of errors with few laughs and more exasperating sighs.
Welcome 2 Karachi is only a maddening mess that is unlikely to do poor little Jackky's career any good at all. Be warned: two dimwits on the run from assorted gun-toting pursuers in Pakistan isn't an edifying spectacle. The more they run the more trouble they get into and the more moronic the film becomes. Indeed, not a shred of Welcome 2 Karachi, erstwhile Rohit Shetty assistant Ashish R Mohan's second film, is remotely welcoming. Only the foolhardy would underestimate Bollywood's ability to do worse, but it is unlikely that you will see another film this unabashedly daft this year. Resist the itch.
Bright orange titles. Annoyingly loud music. Badly done special effects that are not relevant to the film. And that's just the first five minutes. Welcome 2 Karachi is a sad excuse for screen space that has already been watched by the Hindi moviegoer in the last few years in the form of pretty much any film Bollywood ever made about Pakistan. Welcome 2 Karachi could have done better had it invested in a good VFX guy. We’ve seen better special effects when it comes to bomb blasts and sea storms on CID. Somebody needs to take this monstrosity to the cutting room floor and chop it up like nobody’s business. Somebody also needs to put actual musicians at the helm of the sound department.
Welcome 2 Karachi is the kind of brain-dead movie in which dumbness is the main joke. The more foolish the protagonists act, the more we are supposed to laugh. It’s exhausting in an almost soul-sucking way. When I returned home, my son remarked that I looked older than when I had left. Basically, Welcome 2 Karachi is a pro-aging pill. I recommend you watch that instead.
Arshad Warsi, Jackky Bhagnani’s film is decidedly low-brow, low-rent, and refuses to take itself seriously. So, of course the action unravels on a very obvious set masquerading as Karachi, which 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: even the dreaded Taliban are not spared. But overall it is all good-natured and appropriately silly, so ‘Welcome 2 Karachi’ stays watchable. And it manages to end on a hilarious note, sending us out laughing. For a comedy, that’s a win.
The cardinal rule of films like Welcome 2 Karachi is to not to take it too seriously. Keeping true to its publicity of being a random comedy, the film is successful in making you laugh intermittently on its cliched gags at places that are all shades of 'Dumb and Dumber', yet don't cease to be fun. The flaw of the film, however, lies in its lazy writing. Depending heavily on its low-brow humour and the plot's inherent tenacity, there is hardly any effort to build it beyond what it was on paper. From fart jokes, to 'f***er' jokes, the film is replete with absolutely ridiculous, offensive and still outright hilarious fun. But the thick jokes become sparse in the second half and the film's contrived plotline ends in a climax that cannot be a testament to logic. Arshad Warsi's screen presence, and his strong sense of comic timing works. Jackky Bhagnani's earnest performance matches his co-actor's and his impeccable Gujju diction deserves thumbs up. Lauren Gottlieb is left unused for most part of the film. It's an average fare which could've been far better had its meanderings been trimmed.