This season ‘Golmaal’ is back with ‘Golmaal Returns’, alas not with a bang but with a whimper. One of the most awaited flicks of the season is a sheer remake of 1973’s ‘Aaj Ki Taza Khabar.

A Marathi film was also inspired from the same story, which was made during 80’s, though both of them managed to impress the audience, the contemporary one fails to do so.

The story goes like this, Ajay Devgan, who plays the role of Gopal, is married to Ekta aka Kareena Kapoor. Gopal suffers from her wife’s continuous unscrupulous ways of suspecting him as she is obsessed with Ekta Kapoor’s K-serials. The protagonist of the movie is shown caught up in a situation where he has to accidentally spend a night with a girl (Celina Jaitely), and tries to cover this up with a spoof of lies in front of his wife.

Although it undeniably shows resemblance, taking the take off plot from the original old flick in the starting yet the writer tries to include a murder mystery in it giving it a different look though he fails in it as the script seems to be written at the very spot. The other actors in the lead such as Arshad Warsi plays the character of an inspector, who suspects Gopal being the culprit behind the murder and Shreyas Talpade as Laxman Prasad , Gopal’s office subordinate, who helps his colleague.

Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade manage to tickle the audiences with the perfect timing of their witty humour, while usage of lame jokes by other characters undermines the movie.

The film also tries to give an insight into the old characters such as Sharaman Joshi and Vrajesh Hirjee’s serpentine act. The film takes forward its legacy of 'Black comedy' and also adds Bhansali's Saawariya to the spoof-list. The humour varies from superior to slapdash variety ranging from subtle satire on Saif-Kareena tattoos to the overstated Ekta Kapoor soap spoofs.

Ajay, Tusshar and Shreyas manage to save the act somehow with their acting skills, but on the whole the movie falls short to be appreciated and worth watching.