Summary : Dr. Roy Jamnadas finds two pairs of identical twins outside his orphanage and gives them up for adoption, placing them with two different families in two different places. Years later, when one set of twins decides to travel to the city where the other set of twins operates a circus, a comedy of errors results.
Cast : Ranveer Singh, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez, Varun Sharma and Deepika Padukone (Special appearance), Ajay Devgn (Special appearance)
Director : Rohit Shetty
Ratings : ⭐️⭐️
The Review : Cirkus serves as a sequel to Shetty’s 2017 orphanage-focused film Golmaal Again. The doctor (Murali Sharma) separates two sets of identical male twins in the cradle and then waits to evaluate the outcomes of his bizarre experiment. The boys develop into Roy (Ranveer Singh), an Ooty-based circus entrepreneur, and Joy (Varun Sharma). The second couple, Joy and Roy, were born and raised in Bengaluru. There is a psychological link between Roy and Roy. A live electrical current can be handled by the cirkus performer without harm. The other Roy trembles violently, as though in shock, whenever the electricity passes through Roy.
Cirkus’ biggest issue is not familiarity. It’s being lazy. Cirkus is a one-sketch concept expanded into a full-length picture, with a screenplay by Yunus Sajawal and authored by Farhad Samji, Sanchit Bedre, and Vidhi Ghodgaonkar as its foundation. It has a reoccurring visual joke, a lot of wasted actors, and a heavily edited colour scheme that looks like something out of a Cartoon film
Even the two pairs of twins that a doctor switches in order to support a dubious hypothesis about nature and nurture resemble dolls rather than live infants. There isn’t much exploration of the circus that inspired the title. Even the humour has a plasticky aspect to it; it seems forced rather than genuine.
Varun Sharma is such a letdown because we loved his performance in Fukrey, and Ranveer’s energy failed to vibrate in Cirkus due to his completely expressionless overacting. Speaking of the female lead Jacqueline is much weaker to Deepika Padukone in the entire movie while Deepika only seen in Item song.
Pooja Hegde plays the wife of one of the Roys, while the other performers, including Sanjay Mishra, who is particularly annoying as the father of Jacqueline Fernandez’s character, labour too hard to justify their Role while waiting for the humour to strike, as if in a teleplay.
The cast is filled with comics who have previously worked with Shetty’s flicks’ stronger content. Momo, a burglar with an Ace Ventura hairdo and more vigour than anyone else in the movie, is portrayed by Siddhartha Jadhav. Momo’s boss is Polson, who is portrayed by the legendary Johnny Lever.
Overall review: Not as entertaining as expected.