An incoherent script magnifies this problem, and pulls “Banjo” down into a quagmire from which even Deshmukh, for all his screen presence, cannot rescue it.

Banjo does have a few catchy songs to which you can groove, but some parts of the plot are cliched and the others are too random. Don’t be surprised if you switch your brain cells off in the first 30 minutes.

Music composers Vishal-Shekhar contribute a few foot-tapping numbers to Banjo, but everything else in the film is a drag. Only for Riteish Deshmukh fans. The rest can give Banjo a miss. 

Banjo is a feel-good film with great music and performances. Riteish Deshmukh is more than paisa-wasool.

Like ABCD, Banjo relies on a song dedicated to Ganesha to win audiences over in the climax. The track Om Ganapataye Namaha Deva is a doozy, but it proves yet again than a rousing prayer to the remover of obstacles is powerless in the face of limited imagination.