‘Welcome To The Jungle’ movie review: Akshay Kumar and Johny Lever salvage a script lost in the woods
He hires two floundering directors (Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav) to cook up a story with a fading star, Rajeev (Akshay Kumar), and cast his erstwhile love interest (Disha Patani) as the heroine, and the producer’s daughter (Jacqueline Fernandez) for the oomph factor. The makers don’t want to completely sever the umbilical cord to the original. So, Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi step into the shoes of Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor as the rogue elements who want to play heroes in the film.
- ▪He hires two floundering directors (Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav) to cook up a story with a fading star, Rajeev (Akshay Kumar), and cast his erstwhile love interest (Disha Patani) as the heroine, and the producer’s daughter (Jacqueline Fer
- ▪The makers don’t want to completely sever the umbilical cord to the original.
- ▪So, Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi step into the shoes of Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor as the rogue elements who want to play heroes in the film.
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Welcome To The Jungle is yet another invitation to a cinematic universe that assumes a bigger budget and a massive star cast equal bigger laughs, as director Ahmed Khan treats the third installment of the popular franchise like a 164-minute variety show rather than a cohesive experience.Based on late Neeraj Vora’s meta-story, it begins as a clever, self-aware critique of the film industry, where a corrupt corporate figure (Zakir Hussain), pushed by the changing political climate, decides to fund a guaranteed box-office flop to launder money.
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