In ‘Housefull 5’, a comedy-thriller, a whodunnit, things go wrong and almost confused. Everything is happening on a cruise, but you are feeling like jumping from the boat, just to avoid the conspiracy.

To understand ‘Housefull 5’, you first have to understand that this is not the most acclaimed world of comedy. Since this is the world where no female writing was likely to be involved in writing, women are only on board for their bright body, and they are more smart to make men in the franchise. Sexually clear references are limited to mascardade, and self-developing humor-swapping in the form of jokes and male pretends that they have complete control of the situation.

The story begins and ends at Ranjit’s luxury cruise owned by Ranjit. Prior to his 100th birthday, he leaves 69 billion pounds of money for his first son, Jolly. Except no one knows who Jolly is or what he looks like. Julius (Akshay Kumar), Jalbuddin (Ritish Deshmukh) and Jalabushan (Abhishek A Bachchan) all claim to be real jolly, and then start hunting for the killer on the ship – and for the real jolly.

The board of directors, the ship’s captain and Ranjit’s lawyers are all in the photographs – are ready to be ready for an unexpected murder on the cruise. Things have to be solved soon, because the killer is one of them.

The good thing about ‘Housefull 5’ is that it looks like a good commercial entertaining package. But, this is not for everyone’s taste. Cring comedy, where dreadful men are lusting on the body of women and making jokes with birds and monkeys beating, do not make it very charming for humor. It also feels artificial even at a point, such as the audience is being forced to throw a chakli here and there.

The biggest problem with ‘Housefull 5’ is that the audience has developed enough to understand what is really funny. With access to world cinema, we appreciate that the best humor often comes from everyday conditions – something that is really inherent, not drowned in the glitter. The mystery of a murder overloaded with glamor and glosses loses its edge when its brightness becomes a distraction.

Akshay’s efforts appear as a slapstick comedian, and yet you remember what you once loved in ‘Welcome’ or ‘Singh Is Kenge’. He is the owner of ‘Housefull 5’, and tries his best to keep 12-member artists performing on a cruise.

Abhishek Bachchan and Ritish Deshmukh both connected the insanity well, but the real villain here lacks good humor – the real killer of happiness means that a fully developed comedy entertainer on the big screen. ‘Housefull 5’ has no real jokes. Everything is just a renovated version of a situation, or a character we have already seen in the previous ‘Housefull’ films.

The real comedian, however – – Johnny Lever – is hardly offered to do anything. Great artists, who have ruled the Bollywood comedy space since the 90s, have reduced in a frame filler. And it seems who has trusted laughing? Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar and Jackie Shroff in their brief performances.

‘Housefull 5’ is also not a family friendly film, which has ‘6 and 9’ jokes, and there is nothing but the shining frames of the three major women – Jacqueline Fernandez, Sonam Bajwa and Nargis Fakhri. Soundary Sharma, starting its big screen, decreases in a cardboard cutout, which means purely to satisfy the male gaze.

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‘Housefull 5’ really believes in the lack of female gaze in mainstream cinema. If this is the class of our comedy, then perhaps we will not be better that there is no laughter. If this is what they want our children want to watch, then go back when children were not allowed to watch TV, give a film alone in theaters. And if this Bollywood says a ‘blockbuster comedy’, it may, perhaps, the real joke is on us.