All the Best: Fun Begins

About the film

All The Best: Fun Begins is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ajay Devgn. An official adaptation of the English comedy play Right Bed, Wrong Husband published by Samuel French, Inc., it stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Johny Lever, Sanjay Mishra and Mugdha Godse.

The film opened theatrically on 16 October 2009, coinciding with Diwali, and was successful at the box office. It was subsequently remade with slight changes in the story in Malayalam in 2010 as Best of Luck which went on to be remade in Kannada in 2015 as Ond Chance Kodi.

Plot

Veer Kapoor is a struggling artist who hopes to make it big someday with his rock group, but at present, he is tottering financially. His only source of income is a monthly pocket money of Rs 100,000 from his wealthy elder stepbrother Dharam, for which Veer has told a lie about him being married to Vidya, his girlfriend. His best friend is Prem Chopra, who is married to Jhanvi and had come up with the idea of Veer lying to Dharam about his relationship. Jhanvi runs a broken-down gymnasium owned by Prem's family, and Prem spends his time mechanically modifying cars.

Veer and Prem need Rs. 500,000 to register Prem's car for an illegal race (if they win, they will get Rs. 5,000,000). They borrow the money from a local mute loan shark, Tobu, after showing him a car designed by Prem, which Prem assures him he cannot lose. Impressed by this vehicle, Tobu, in addition to lending Prem and Veer 500,000, invested 500,000 of his own on Prem. Prem loses the race and ends up owing a sum of Rs. 1,000,000 to Tobu, which should be paid within a week.

Prem decides to rent out Veer's bungalow to a local slum dweller, RGV—Raghuvandas Goverdhandas Vakawale, who has won a lottery, and collects an advance of Rs 250,000. However, everything gets into a muddle when Dharam is stranded at the Goa Airport on his way to Lesotho and insists on catching up with his younger brother. Things get worse when their new tenant arrives and is beaten up by Dharam. In order to save the situation, Prem and Veer both lie that Raghu is mad and vice versa.

Reception

Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5, and while critical of the music as well as the pacing in the second half, he praised the cinematography, dialogues and writing. Mayank Shekhar from Hindustan Times gave the film 3 stars out of 5, and felt that while the premise was pretty weak and nothing made sense, the film was bound to make the viewer crack up more than once in a while.

On the other hand, Sukanya Verma from Rediff.com gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5, remarking that it was the presence of Johnny Lever that made the film work sporadically.

The film had opened to an average start as it released with two other diwali releases that year but had later picked up due to positive word of mouth . It was rated as successful in India, and is the eighth highest grossing Bollywood film of 2009.

Soundtrack

Released by T-Series, the soundtrack was composed by Pritam Chakraborty and the lyrics were penned by Kumaar.

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