Film

Director: David Dhawan

Producer: Sohail Khan and Parag Sanghvi

Global Distributor: Eros International

Cast: Salman Khan, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif, Rajpal Yadav, Aarti Chabria, Deepshikha, Rajat Bedi, Suresh Mennon

Rating: 3/5

Keep your brains in the jar and lock it in a safe; that is possibly the best way you can enjoy the film, Partner. Filled with tons of antics and witty lines the film is not for the weak hearted and frowning faces.

The plot is almost like that of the will smith starrer Hitch. Love guru Prem (Salman Khan) is the best in the job of fixing people up with their ideal partners. Of course that until a practically impossible, Mr.-all-wrong, middle class Bhasker (Govinda) approaches him for help with wooing Priya (Katrina Kair), an industrial heiress. While Prem is working hard at helping Bhasker with his love, he falls for Naina, a single mother (Lara Dutta).

All ends well, but then, a movie such as this is no fun without a whole lot of confusion and misunderstanding. So following is a whole lot of problem solving and one funny chota Don (Rajpal Yadav), who is inconsequential to the film.

The thing is if one wanted to rip apart the film, they could very well do so with the million odd inconsistencies the film possesses. Like including pointless characters who have nothing to do with the story and jumping locations without establishing them (Phuket to Dubai to Mumbai, God knows where the characters are located). But then you'd miss the entire point of watching the film; that of being a non stop entertainer from start to finish.

Everything contained in the film leads to promoting the two lead characters and their larking about. The dialogues are well written and the actions only enhance them.

Though the location is nowhere close to being established in any scene, what is captured is remarkable. The camerawork, cinematography...