Subhash K. Jha speaks about Ready

She's a runaway bride. He's a runaway rogue, a little rough around the edges but a good-hearted lovable soul. Salman Khan can play this character over and over again with his eyes closed. In Ready, he is back to playing the lover-boy clown. Mr Fix-It and Ms Hum Aapke Hain Conwoman flirt and get naughty in exotic locations. They don't generate chemistry. They are just being around.

Jeez, these two never tire of saying cheese! And when the going gets cheesy there's always the family to fall back on. There are three families creaking at the joints, living in homes that appear to have been built to accommodate over-sized families .The setting is almost laughably anachronistic.

Salman Khan and his director Anees Bazmee pay a hefty comic homage to Hum Aapke Hain Kaun . The Salman-Asin romance unfolds against the backdrop of a commodious joint family where every family-member seems determined to have a good time even at the expense of good taste.

True, Asin lacks the gamine charm of Madhuri Dixit. But then the Salman Khan in Ready is not quite the Salman Khan from Hum Aaapke Hain Kaun. He hasn't aged. He's just become more smug and self-confident. Many times we catch him looking bored on camera. But that this iconic star's style statement. When you are Salman Khan, you can slip out of character when you want. No one is complaining.

Bazmee's script, a shoot-off of a Telugu hit, accommodates more characters than Goa during the tourist season. Every character is over-dressed and over-the-top. Then men are constantly looking for reasons to say goofy corny things to one another. That's the required mood of this panga-'mirth'-lena comedy with an attitude that stretches from one end of the lengthy narration to the other with hardly a break for the plot to gather together its thoughts.