Happy Ending ... All is in the well ... when the end is in the well ...

Happy Ending ... All is in the well ... when the end is in the well ... 

Happy Ending? You do not get many of those in life, do you? Maybe you do and you don't know? Possibly ...

Happy Ending the movie is all about Saif (Yudi), the male protagonist and his ways around life. This writer going through a writer's block ( or mental block) , one book wonder to be precise, wants just three things in life, money, fame and girls. And he gets it too !!!

7, 8 or 9 and a half girlfriends later, realisation strikes.
Movie starts with our hero losing out on Kareena (special appearance), x, y, z, Preity Zeinta (with triplets from an American husband) and other GFs.
Commitment phobic and love phobic, our hero goes from one girl to another. Last one is a Dentist, Visakha (Kalki Koechlin) who is so obsessive of our hero (Yudi) that she goes ahead and installs a GPS app on his phone to track him.
But then, the one book wonder is broke now, money gone, girls are rare and his book (written 5 1/2 years ago) going off the shelves. Awakening? Well, maybe, possibly ... oops ... NO.

But one man's failure is another man's success. In this case a woman's success. In comes Aanchal (Illeana), budding writer, current best seller, and loads of oomph.

Then there is Montu ( Ranvir Shorey). Married and scared, loving yet irritating. Ranvir reminds us of the old Ranvir of Khosla ka Ghosla. Witty, cunning, scared, indulging and humorous.

Meanwhile ... a Bollywood single screen superstar, Armaan ( well..Armaan Ji), Govinda, arrives. He needs the best story. A story that will captivate the masses and the classes. He even goes to the length of suggesting Hollywood hits to copy.

Chaos follows but love happens. The commitment phobic writer falls for another commitment phobic writer, Illeana's Aanchal who's happy with a romp rather than a relationship, and things change.

Amongst all this is self realization, Yudi's inner self Yogi ( Saif again). An unkempt, unhealthy and always feeding inner self, who keeps on throwing life lessons.

It's all there, yet not there. Directors Raj and DK have definitely moved ahead of Go Goa Gone, thank God, but still end up serving us a Saif of Salaam Namaste, Hum Tum and Cocktail fame. A role which he plays comfortably, but then c'mon. Grow up.

The ending is predictable, story meets life meets judgement meets guesses meets everything else. Cliche Cliche ....

Performance wise;
Saif - same character as the commitment phobic metro-sexual dude ... he nails it.
Kalki - adorable yet irritable girlfriend.
Govinda - awesome ... give him a good story Bollywood ... C'mon !!!
Ranvir - Finally the Ranvir of Khosla ka Ghosla arises. Loved him. Brilliant !!!
Illeana - Grown up finally. No more the south Indian movie bimbo. She has aged and has aged beautifully and meanwhile and somewhere picked up acting lessons. Fresh Breeze throughout the movie. Way to to go girl.

Rating - 2 for the movie... + 0.5 each for Ranvir and Illeana ... so, 3 stars ...  3/5

Verdict - Not unwatchable. Go, have a good laugh, a good 2 hours and 15 mins and forget it ...