In Tennis language, the phenomenon is called ‘to be in the Zone’! When you are in the Zone, whatever you do, clicks. Mis-hits get you winners and practically every shot connects in the middle of the racquet. When it comes to Bollywood, Salman Khan is currently in that Zone! First Wanted, then Dabangg and now Ready.  Three humongous superhits in a row. Three typical Masala- filled potboilers that have been lapped up by the masses. It is as if whatever he decides to touch is turning to gold. Amitabh once enjoyed that run in the late-70s; then Akshay Kumar had his fill in last 3 years and now it’s Salman – time to carry the mantle of Box-office topping Masala Movie Man!

A cute girl from an underworld family and a handsome boy who wants to get that girl while teaching lessons to her crime-wedded family-members. Now isn’t that core theme reminiscent of Welcome? But apparently Ready is a remake of a super-hit Telugu film by the same name. Don’t even bother to ask me about the details of the incredible story filled with dozens of characters and twice as many crazy situations.

Writer- director Anees Bazmi (who directed Welcome in 2007) is quite at home in making such breezy, illogical, irrational entertainers and he manages to make Ready a neat entertaining package for the masses with catchy songs (Character Dheela and Dhink chika Dhink Chika) and some genuinely funny scenes.

Ready does provide two-and-half hours of unadulterated mindless fun.  In terms of entertainment value, it is certainly a comedown from Wanted and Dabangg.  It is rather loose-knit and the pace/comedy lags in between. But then didn’t I tell you that Salman is in a Zone? So even this rather mis-hit shot fetches him another winner! Minus Salman, you won’t even go through this movie for half an hour. It is only his powerhouse performance (even pulling off creepy lines like Main kutta hoon, tu kutiya hai, a take on his MPK- hit song ‘Main ladka hoon, tum ladki ho’!) that really makes the movie fun to watch and that’s what drives it to the pot of gold at the box-office.