The
bad
news
is
that
good
films
are
not
doing
well.
But
the
better
news
is
that
bad
films
are
also
being
rejected.
No
Problem,
if
we
must
talk
about
it,
is
no
better
or
worse
than
all
the
other,
ha
ha,
comedies
that
have
come
and
groaned.
A
series
of
wildly
improbable
characters
and
ideas
strung
together
in
sequences
of
flabbergasting
haphazardness,
this
is
the
sort
of
comic
romp
where
the
laughter
is
lost
in
transit.
The
credits
boast
of
four
writers.
But
there
is
no
rhyme
in
the
crime
no
logic
in
the
laughter.
Just
fasten
your
seat
belts
and
let
Anees
Bazmi,
a
fine
writer
when
given
better
circumstances,
take
you
for
a
ride.
The
film
opens
with
Sanjay
Dutt
and
Akshaye
Khanna
playing
two
con
men
Yash
and
Raj
(Yash-Raj,
get
it?
ha
ha)
rescuing
a
baby
gorilla
from
the
dickey
of
Paresh
Rawal's
car.
The
baby
gorilla
and
its
grateful
parents
show
up
in
the
climax
where
all
the
male
characters
(approximately
33
at
last
count)
are
dressed
as
Sardarjis
to
sing
a
song
that
goes
'Kad
lamba
chaudi
chest
chest'.
Ahem.
Chest
joking,
I
guess.
Not
too
many
sequences
make
much
sense
in
this
homage
to
hectic
incoherence.
The
gags
are
as
flat
as
Neetu
Chandra's
belly
.She
has
some
funny
moments
with
Suniel
Shetty
(playing
the
assassin
named,
with
excruciating
unoriginality,
Marcos).
But
the
funniest
character
in
the
plot
is
Sushmita
Sen.
A
schizophrenic
wife
to
bumbling-cop
Anil
Kapoor;
she
does
the
split-personality
act
with
lip
smacking
relish.
You
often
wonder
what
a
woman
as
gorgeous
as
Ms
Sen
is
doing
in
a
place
as
farcical
as
this
where
anarchy
prevails.
Nothing
makes
sense.
Nothing
is
supposed
to.
The
film
is
shot
in
South
Africa.
For
what
purpose,
we
will
never
know.
The
film's
confounding
idiocies
could
have
easily
been
located
in
Matunga
or
Mangalore.
The
most
important
component
of
a
situational
comedy
is
that
the
actors
must
LOOK
like
they're
having
fun.
There
is
not
much
below-surface
camaraderie
among
the
actors.
Anil
Kapoor
brings
in
a
zany
fun
into
his
self-deprecating
role.
But
really,
just
the
ability
to
laugh
at
oneself
is
not
enough.
You
have
to
communicate
that
laughter
to
the
world
that's
watching
you.
On
that
score
No
Problem
simply
parts
ways
with
the
audience.
Story first published: Monday, December 13, 2010, 9:21 [IST]