Welcome Back

Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar) and Majnu Bhai (Anil Kapoor) end a life of crime and become honest businessmen, settling in Dubai. Two conwomen from India, Poonam (Dimple Kapadia) and Babita (Ankita Shrivastava), present themselves as Maharani Padmavati and Rajkumari Chandini of Najafgarh in order to con Uday and Majnu of their money. Babita causes the two men to fall in love with her, thus getting them to finance herself and Poonams luxurious lifestyle. Later, it is revealed that Uday has another sister Ranjana (Shruti Haasan) from his fathers third marriage and Majnu and Uday are emotionally blackmailed by Udays father into arranging the marriage of Ranjana and are also forced to do so as Poonam makes that one of her conditions for getting Babita married to either one of them.The movie then shifts to Dr.

Ghunguroo (Paresh Rawal), who has found out that he has a step son from his wifes previous marriage, Ajju a.k.a Ajay (John Abraham). Ajju is a local goon of Mumbai, where Ranjana studies. Through a chain of hilarious events, they both fall in love with each other.

Meanwhile, Majnu and Uday arrange the marriage of Ranjana with the step-son of Doctor Ghunguroo, not knowing that he is a goon. However, at the engagement ceremony, Majnu reveals the truth of Ajju, to which Ajju resists with a fight, threatening to marry Ranjana without any of the brothers consent.In order to keep Ajju at bay, Uday and Majnu visit Wanted Bhai, (Naseeruddin Shah), who is an infamous blind don. The brothers are shocked to find that Wanteds son Honey (Shiney Ahuja) likes Ranjana and would like to marry her. They decide to arrange the marriage of Ranjana to some other decent man, in order to sidestep Ajju as well as Wanteds son.

However, due to Ajju and Dr. Ghunguroo, who are in league with Babita and Poonam, they are caught by Wanted Bhai, who summons them to his island.There, Ajju and Dr. Ghunguroo try to convince Honey that he no longer loves Ranjana and that Babita is his true love. Meanwhile, Uday and Majnu try to kill Ajju, but are frightened at the graveyard in a ghost act planned by Dr.

Ghunguroo, Ajju and Ranjana. Unbeknownst to all of them, their activities have been recorded by closed-circuit television, causing Wanted Bhai and Honey to plan to finish them off. However, in a hilarious climax scene, Honey is kidnapped by all of them and they escape towards the desert where they are chased by Wanted Bhai. In the midst of saving himself, Dr. Ghunguroo pushes Wanted Bhai, causing him to faint.

Meanwhile, a group of camels heavily march there. Ajju is successful in saving Wanted Bhai from the stampede of camels, and restoring his sight. Wanted Bhai himself, as a form of gratitude, arranges the marriage of Ajju with Ranjana, calling Ajju his second son.Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 stars out of and wrote, if you enjoy slapstick comedy that defies logic and have enjoyed Welcome, then Welcome Back is surely a paisa vasool entertainer for you.

Dhriti Sharma, writing for Zee News, stated, Welcome Back is vibrant and the ensemble cast keeps it gripping. The screenplay is brilliant, just a little bit of loops in editing in the first song. The comic flavour of the movie has been kept intact and the direction has been profoundly beaded into scenes. Ananya Bhattacharya from India Today gave it 3 stars out of and wrote, Welcome Back is quite the laugh riot that can de-stress you after the atrocities of the week. Leave the brains aside, and you have (at least) two hours of hardcore fun.

Rohit Vats from Hindustan Times gave 2.5 out of and wrote, Welcome Back is funny in parts, but that Welcome fluidity is missing big time. There are moments but they are very limited in number. Welcome Backs pace is its biggest asset and that may make you enjoy this 153-minute long film. Deepanjana Pal from Firstpost wrote, At 153 minutes, Welcome Back is just a shade too long and the ending is a sandstorm of stupidity.

But youll forgive Bazmee and gang because for at least 120 minutes, this comedy keeps you in splits. Welcome Back might be 2015s silliest film and this is the best reason to watch it. Shilpa Jamkhandikar, writing for Reuters, stated, Welcome Back is sporadically funny, one that ebbs and flows; but it just about passes the guilty pleasure test thanks to Kapoor and Patekar. Filmfare wrote, watch the film if you like cornball comedies. Its a pure massy, masala entertainer thats good to go on a lazy weekend.

Rediffs Raja Sen, while giving the film 2 stars out of 5, wrote, Welcome Back is dumb yet entertaining, utterly silly but made with a kind of absurd, warm energy. Shubha Shetty-Saha from Mid-day called the film a blazing example of the Leave your brains at home variety and a fun watch which will keep you snorting and giggling even after you exit the theatre. Shubhra Gupta writing for The Indian Express gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5 and stated, Welcome had a welcome lightness in most of its steps. And it made us laugh.

Welcome Back, minus Akshay and Katrina, plus John and Shruti, and Dimple and a new girl, and Naseer and Shiney, clomps about, looking for the laughs. And failing, mostly, to find them. Saibal Chatterjee from NDTV wrote, nothing that this nonsensical action comedy unleashes, not even the in-form Anil Kapoor-Nana Patekar pair, can compensate for its absence of substance. Welcome Back.is as appealing as a dunk in a garbage dump.

Livemints Uday Bhatia wrote, Over its cruelly prolonged 150-minute running time, Welcome Back treats human intellect with the sort of disdain thats remarkable even for Bollywood. Its not just that these are old gags; theyve been repurposed so lazily that you can see the actors tiring of a scene even as they perform it.