Box Office - Partner & Naqaab

This Friday will see the release of David Dhawan`s Govinda, Salman, Lara and Katrina starrer, `Partner`. Given that the music has become quite a rage, the good to reasonable advance and the charm of seeing the two stars, Govinda and Salman(who have given David his maximum hits) together, the movie is expected to open big at the box-office.

Some do's and don'ts you need to follow while watching PARTNER…

· Lock your brains in the almirah, before you head for the nearby movieplex to catch this zany entertainer.

· Don't look for logic. Don't ask questions. Don't raise eyebrows. .

· Don't argue with what the master chef David Dhawan serves on your plate. .

Do carry some earplugs/earwax if you're allergic to noise. The cineplex will reverberate with high decibels of laughter, which could tax your ear-drums if you're overtly sensitive. . Welcome to PARTNER, David Dhawan's new comic caper. It's stylish, it's crazier, it's a bigger entertainer than David's last two laughathons, MUJHSE SHAADI KAROGI and MAINE PYAAR KYUN KIYA. Making people laugh is an art and David has mastered this art over the years. Like wine, he has only matured with time.

The Abbas-Mustan directed Bobby, Akshaye and Uravshi starrer, `Naqaab : Disguised Intentions`, failed to get the expected good opening. A section of the trade feels that the movie has a script that is difficult to comprehend and the end too radical. However, all is not lost as there was a pick up noticed, as the weekend progressed.

The best thing about Naqaab is that it's just two hours long.

The incredible thing, though, is that it still manages to overstay its welcome -- with a climax lathered on and on, the final twists merely being the facts that the film isn't over yet. Or yet. Or yet. Sigh.

For all that, Abbas-Mustan (credited in the film's titles as Director Duo) have done their fair share of contrived countertwisting. The proceedings are breezy and while nobody really cries bloody murder -- this isn't really a thriller -- the film is never tedious and the actress is pretty.

So yeah, it's watchable.