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binducherungath Welcome 2 Karachi is a comedy film by Ashish R Mohan. Occasional hilarious scenes might leave you in splits, but otherwise, the movie fails in its genre. It turns out be a very average movie. Welcome 2 Karachi does an attempt to add humour to India-Pakistan feud, Taliban Issue, American's interventions, but these all turn out to be merely over-the-top drama. The opening credits itself do not generate any curiosity but are set up in an inferior tone.Kedar Patel (Jackky Bagnani), son of a businessman, gets his US visa rejected for the third time. His good friend and ex-navy professional Shammi (Arshad Warsi) suggests to go to USA by cruise, if not by air. But an accident makes them arrive at Karachi. When they learn that they are in Karachi, both of them in their attempt to come back to India, goof up the whole thing. They are mistaken to be intruders from across the border. Lauren plays the role of Investigation officer who is sure that these two people (Shammi and Kedar) might be a threat to their country.Kedar is dumb and Shammi is loud-mouthed which land them in unforeseen situations. They both definitely generate laughter through some scenes when they accidentally get trapped sometimes amongst Pathans / Mujahideens / Police officers / Talibans etc. Taliban Camp Scene is worth mention, though looks very unreal, but it was so funny.Both Arshad and Jacky are good. We have seen this Arshad earlier also, but as far as Jackky is concerned, he also has shown good comic timings. The movie just projected some plots / sub plots, even attempted to present a satire on so many pertinent issues, but somewhere, the passion got lost in storytelling and the output turned to be very mediocre. Music is below average and an unwanted item number 'Shakira' (by Lauren) was inserted.

a_nandkeolyar This is not a run of the mill comedy with below the belt humor or slapstick, its very eccentric and cerebral humor - good and pure fun. More of a parody. The plot and story are very creative and quite original and the movie does not bad-mouth any community/country - just a parody of the many situations in South Asia. The screenplay was very intelligent taking into account the 'International scenario' and 'International relations'. If you go to the theater expecting slapstick comedy or a formula driven love story - this is not for you. But, if you want to watch an original parody and laugh at some incredibly comic scenes - this is for you.

sulemanx overall movie used such bad graphics effects, poor cinematography and lame script. it was first time that i left movie at interval. not worth watching if you do not enjoy bad jokes. it was a low budget movie, actors seems to do some over action, and story line is not even keeping you interested in movie, its just a time pass movie. but not worth it. Arshad Warsi was bit better in acting but overall the acting and script was so bad, i wish i had gone to watch some other movie. i did not enjoy this movie at all. This movie reflects negativity against Pakistan, and spread wrong message to the world, it wasn't even shoot in Karachi, but they showed as it was in Karachi. Also portrayed bad image of Pakistan as a terrorist country.

Akshay Ranganathan After 'Youngistaan', where we discovered the actual acting chops from Jackky Bhagnani, he decided to experiment with the most difficult genre ever, and that is 'Comedy'. Well experimenting is not bad, if the screenplay evokes laughter in the audience, tickles their funny bone, till they die laughing. But you'll get to know about the result of the movie, 'Welcome 2 Karachi', which is by the way the second pairing of Arshad-Jackky duo and second directorial of 'Khiladi 786' fame Ashish R. Mohan.The plot being inspired from 'Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay' and the gags inspired from 'Dumb & Dumber', the film is about the two dimwits (Jackky Bhagnani & Arshad Warsi), who try to go to the United States of America, using the sea-route, illegally, after the former one (Jackky) being repeatedly denied visa by the American Embassy, and the latter one (Arshad) being sacked from his Naval- officer duty. Due to a storm on the sea, the boat lands on the shores of Pakistan. What follows from here is chaos, chaos and nothing but chaos.The plot had so much potential, but the writers (Vrajesh Hirjee, Ashish R. Mohan, Kushal Ved Bakshi and Danish Hussain) clearly rely on juvenile jokes, from the ones involving fart to the word f****r, which sparsely evokes giggles. And they are often repeated. The 'ban' joke, as well as the fake Muslim names by the protagonists were quite hilarious, these scenes left me in splits, but before and after that, each and every one-liner or a gag left me giggled or were just unfunny. Direction (Ashish R. Mohan) focuses on action scenes more than the comedic moments. Moreover, the second half is more unfunny than the first one, and on top of that the shoddy VFX plays a spoilsport. Music (Jeet Ganguly, Rochak Kohli and Amjad Nadeem) is just ignorable, except for 'Chal Bhaag', which justifies one of the situations of the film. Background score is just plain average. Editing (Steven Bernard) is disappointingly average, from the master editor of many Rohit Shetty movies. Cinematography (Mark Nutkins) is again, average. Choreography (Bosco-Caesar, F. A. Khan and Brinda) is nothing special.Off the cast, Jackky Bhagnani stereotypes Gujaratis badly. He evokes sparse giggles, yes, but this time he hams, instead of acting. Arshad Warsi, though tried to carry the whole movie on his shoulders, was badly wasted, so was Lauren Gottlieb. Rest of the cast just overact a lot.On the whole, 'Welcome 2 Karachi' just overstays its welcome. After a promising trailer, we thought it might tickle our funny bone for good, but, it left us disappointed and cheated. It is not another 'Filmistaan' or another 'Tere Bin Laden'. It's just plain boring, though intermittently funny. I go with a three out of ten rating.