Son of Sardaar

Now I know why Ajay Devgn was so adamant to release this film on Diwali even if it meant taking YRF and JTHJ head on.....it's during Diwali only that people are in such festive and happy spirit that they might just forgive him for making this non sense of a film.
It's the story of a Sardaar who comes back from London to Punjab to sell off some family property only to find out that he has an enemy who is waiting to kill him and only to conveniently fall in love with niece of that enemy. What happens thereafter is brainless and mostly humourless events in the name of comedy.
The film starts off ok with a fast paced introduction of all lead characters, meeting of lead couple in a train with few light moments and remains watchable somehow in the first half. But it's the second half which brings it down big time what with numerous songs, no genuine laughter moments and story going nowhere at all. The romance angle between Ajay and Sonakshi is also half baked and film keeps on moving between love story and revenge drama without any consistent flow. The action sequences are nothing new and are stretched unnecessarily trying to do a Rohit Shetty what with flying cars and humans without similar effect though.
In terms of performances, everyone is just about ok....no one outshines. Salman Khan makes a cameo which even he would lille to forget soon. Music is average and you wish film had at least three songs less.
I am all for keep-your-brain-at-home masala comedy entertainers provided they do what they are supposed to.....entertain. This one doesn't do that except for few sequences in first half which is not enough. For most parts, you laugh not due to comic dialogues, scenes or performances but actually at the silliness of what's going on. Watch it only if you have nothing to do these holidays, you don't like romance flicks and you have taste for anything in the name of comedy. My overall verdict - Below average.