In the end, you only wish Warsi would get better roles and better films that do justice to his talent, rather than this hackneyed mess of a film.

The secondary characters, including Lauren Gottlieb, are weak and listless. The climax will make your jaw drop with the sheer amount of absurdity displayed. And it ends in a cliffhanger that totally disregards the final conflict. That’s real lazy writing, dude!

Watch Filmistan instead.

Welcome To Karachi is a madcap comedy. The likes where nothing makes sense but grown men act like retards and yet save the world. It’s hard to write a recommendation for such a brainless romp.

A movie must outdo its trailer. That’s what we hope for, but unfortunately Bollywood lures us into theatres with big promises and never keeps it. ‘Welcome 2 Karachi’ slips into that disappointing category.

Last year, a small-budget movie ‘Filmistaan’ gave Indo-Pak border politics a clever, comical twist, sadly, ‘Welcome 2 Karachi’ never matches up.

The film thinks it would be hilarious to use the word ‘fafda’ as a euphemism for ‘f*ck’, presumably because Gujjus love fafda more than … never mind. So, taking a leaf out of Welcome to Karachi’s script, heed this warning: everyone involved in this fafda film overacts, there isn’t remotely a fafda funny line to make you fafda laugh, it looks tacky as fafda, is loud enough to make your fafda eardums fafda explode, and long enough to deplete your fafda hairline.

I have a few good friends in Karachi. My deepest apologies to all of them on behalf of Bollywood.

The film is a delight. Added to it, Arshad and Jacky’s comic timing set up in an unusual background make this movie a perfect one time watch.

The sort of derivative comic slop Arshad Warsi has had to wade through his entire career…All you really need to know is that this is the kind of film in which there’s a running joke about two characters named Ittefaq and Watthefaq.

Arshad knows this terrain well and in the absence of any challenge he repeats himself. Unlike Kedar’s father in the film, Jackky’s producer father hasn’t lost hope in him and Jackky does try to lift his game as the moronic character but is let down by an inspired writer, a lazy editor and a director who has taken only baby steps since Khiladi 786. It seems like the aeroplane in the climax, Kedar and Shammi have taken the reins of the film!

All in all, this Arshad Warsi and Jackky Bhagnani starrer is a big bore which you will regret watching.