Overwrought and laboured, the idea to reignite a good old flame fails lacks both passion and pain.

Provocative and pungent, it rises above the daftness that we associate with a sex comedy.

A welcome reminder of simple joys and sorrows of life, watch it with somebody you love.

It might still work for the devotees of Singh, but the rest can go by his advice, “Never Ever”.

Bottomline: Nothing more than a tacky promotional feature for a spiritual organisation.

More style than substance, here the songs have more depth than the script.

Using graveyard as a metaphor, Balki is trying to say life is too short to squabble over ego. But he seems to have forgotten that 153 minutes is too long to stretch an ad length idea to a feature film, particularly when it is not consistently speaking from the gut.

Rajkumar Rao and Zeeshan Ayyub show how to do it even in a comedy. Thankfully, the climax is not a cop out but by then one had lost interest in Dolly’s escapades.

The best part is the film doesn’t romanticise the job that these daredevils do nor does Neeraj turn it into a dry procedural. He does talk about the nameless nature of the job and the sacrifices these agents have to make but all of it is portrayed through the course of action with wry wit.

Akshay Kumar nails the part. Restrained without being monotonous, Akshay keeps the heart throbbing.

After showing signs of digging into the innards of middle class family values by putting a gay couple and an item girl from a rural background in the mix, Ritesh resorts to the safety of slapstick and happy ending, and when one begins to see the Priyadarshan-like family hungama from a distance, the craziness begins to wane.

More than the creaking doors it is the screenplay that needs some urgent oiling.