Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome To The Jungle Movie Review Rating:

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Raveena Tandon, and an endless brilliant ensemble!

Director: Ahmed Khan

What’s Good: A good screenplay and an ensemble that does not disappoint!

What’s Bad: Nothing in specific, except for a few dubbing glitches!

Loo Break: No, not even in the interval!

Watch or Not?: Absolutely Yes! Perfect time to laugh out loud with your family!

Language: Hindi

Available On: Theatrical release

Runtime: 2 hours and 50 minutes

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What do you call a perfect comedy film? When everyone in the theater, of each and every age group, right from a 6-year-old kid obsessed with Akshay Kumar’s laughter to a 16-year-old kid falling for Disha Patani’s dance moves in Ooncha Lamba Kad to a 50 year old whistling to Suniel Shetty’s dialogues to an 80 year old laughing hilariously to Fareeda Jalal’s dialogues to everyone from the 90s just hooting endlessly to a Mahabharat reference! Oh man, I did not expect to walk out of the theater witnessing a laughter riot! But Welcome To The Jungle is the laughter riot that breaks out of the blue and creates the most epic chaos you would have seen in recent times!

Welcome To The Jungle Movie Review: Script Analysis

The story of Welcome To The Jungle is funny. A filthy rich, corrupt man (Zakir Hussain), resembling Vijay Mallya way too much, decides to make a 2000 crore film to turn his black money into white, on his secretary (Johnny Lever’s) advice. The stage is set. They plan to hire everyone who is unsuccessful in the industry. Flop director (Paresh Rawal), flop actor (Akshay Kumar), Dons turned struggling actors (Suniel Shetty, and Arshad Warsi), corrupt man’s dumb daughter (Jacqueline Fernandez), and the flop actor’s ex (Disha Patani). More actors come together to star in this film, which is being made to show losses!

However, things take the most bizarre turn when they land amidst Mujahideen and a forgotten village in India – Pakistan’s No Man’s Land, where a Mujahid leader, Jackie Shroff, and his sidekick, Vindu Dara Singh, exploit the villagers, including Farida Jalal, Raveena Tandon, Kiran Kumar, and more! Do the actors finally make the flop film? Do the villagers get rid of the Mujahedin? What does the Indian Army have to do with it? All gets a very chaotic yet bone-tickling story with the most bizarre twist that would make you laugh endlessly!

Welcome To The Jungle Movie Review: Star Performance

With this performance, I officially officiate Akshay Kumar as the undisputed King of Comedy! I mean, he knows how to make you laugh! In fact, I witnessed the theater laughing throughout the film. After experimenting with serious, social, and action dramas, Khiladi Kumar returns to the genre that runs effortlessly through his veins. His comic timing remains celebratory and flawless. Not a moment dull, nor a joke or situation that did not land! Whether it is his hilarious facial expressions when caught between Raveena Tandon and Farida Jalal or his physical agility during the chaotic climax, Akshay anchors the entire film with infectious energy.

This energy is effortlessly transferred into the equally chaotic starcast. Right from the TV stars Kiku Sharda & Krushna Abhishek to the supporting actors Yashpal Sharma and Mukesh Tiwari. The entire supporting cast provides the film with spectacular energy. Paresh Rawal returns to drop absolute gold as he leads this group as the director Devdas, while the duo of Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi bring down the house with their bickering bromance.

Among the ladies, Disha Patani and Jacqueline Fernandez bring the house down with their glamorous, perfectly timed comic beats, matching the chaotic energy of the boys frame for frame. A special mention to the Mahabharat trio, Pankaj Dheer, Puneet Issar, and Firoz Khan, whose surprise cameo triggers some of the biggest roars of laughter in the entire film! I might take another entire article to appreciate each and every actor in detail, because it is practically impossible to break down and decode each and every performance. But together all of them pulled out a riot that was much needed in the cinema, for families to come together and just enjoy!

Akshay Kumar needs a mention again as he steers the climax effortlessly with a double role none expected to be this funny! I know that making fun of disabilities can never be cool, but you need to see it to believe that it is done with an absolute sense of funny intent!