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Movies on marital issues and post marriage relationships have been made earlier too but this is an altogether different movie which is not interested in entertaining you with some good humor or some realistic sequences. But instead the director is more interested in being extensively vulgar verbally than visually. The movie moves around some confused characters who are not happy with their spouses and find other ways to satisfy themselves emotionally and physically. Loosely based on Woody Allen’s “Husbands & Wives”, it shows an inside view of different bedrooms and their not so amusing stories with everything about the “3 letter word” wide open as never before.
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Debutante director Anil, sadly is not able to hold the audiences neither with his bold subject nor with its cheap dialogues at various places. In fact I should mention here that the viewer would be shocked to hear some strong & bold words coming from a 20 something girl and that too in quite disgraceful details. Just imagine a young girl talking with her professor about her recently broken relationship. And the reason she gives for the break up is that “she couldn’t do it with his boyfriend due to his size”. Was the director trying to make a huge breakthrough in Indian Cinema with such liberty taken or it was only for adding a shock value to the movie. The comment was quite innovatively written by the writer for a young college going girl. And that clearly showed the real intentions.
Regarding the star cast, everyone has done a good job, but once again the talented star cast is not provided with enough good scenes. There are entertaining moments but they come after long gaps. Out of all the actors the most impressive is Saba, a new comer who plays a film student to Rahul Bose and shares her private experiences with him openly. The scene where she is talking about her sexual experiences and her birthday sequence where she boldly asks Rahul for a birthday kiss are not only shocking but they are also capable of generating an awful influence over the youngsters.
Rahul Bose as a confused professor and Konkona Sen Sharma as his wife are fine. Rahul Khanna returns after a long time with an entertaining performance. Payal Rohtagi as a mindless beauty looks sexy and inviting. But out of the ladies, the best act comes from Soha Ali Khan. She is again impressive after “Mumbai Meri Jaan”. And the main person, Irrfan Khan, as always is top rate. Though he is being given similar kind of roles by our film-makers but he is surely an actor to be proud of. He is the only person providing the comedy and comic element to the movie. As a sex crazy person he is too good and his bedroom sequence with his office colleague is the best sequence of the movie.
In spite of having Irrfan Khan and other well known names, the film is not able to hold you or impress the viewer with its content. It is neither a thoughtful social movie nor a good sex comedy. In fact in order to provide some fresh scenes the writer goes overboard and becomes vulgar. Especially the dialogues given to Saba, the young girl are quite debatable. If the Censors don’t find these as vulgar then they must be having a very enlightening guidelines of censorship in their hands or maybe they are more strict with only visual and abusive words.
After seeing “Dil Kabaddi”, I was forced to think that there is a very thin line between a good sex or adult comedy and a vulgar film. Often our directors start off with the first and end up being the second. Same is the case with “Dil Kabaddi”.
Rating : 1.5 / 5
You have seen it several times before on the screen that a person is told that he will be dying in few days and then he decides to live his life and fulfill all his hidden dreams with all he has got. It was there in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru”, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Anand”, “Mili” and some more too. But still “Dasvidaniya” manages to entertain you with its gentle approach and brilliant performances.
However it was again normal to see that the main idea of making a list of “Things To Do” before you die comes from the 2007 released “The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman. But here the movie concentrates only on one character of Vinay Pathak and revolves around his last wishes to be lived in the remaining time span.
The debutante director Shashant Shah, extracts fine performances from every actor in the frame and that makes this movie a worth watching effort. You can relate to the character of “Amar” as he writes his last wishes, but only some sequences seem to be predictable, which make you feel ‘seen before’. The star cast has all the actors whom you may recall seeing in many comedy serials featuring Vinay and Ranvir. Ranvir also makes a special appearance in the movie as a person who inspires Vinay to go for it. That’s really nice to see that they all love to work together as a team and may be that is the reason why the chemistry between all the characters is quite cool & brilliant.
The movie starts with an ease and straight away comes to the point without wasting any footage. This rightly tells you the meaning of “Dasvidaniya” and also prepares you to see what will follow. Vinay Pathak puts his heart in his lovable act and carries the whole movie on his shoulders. He is supported competently by Saurabh Shukla (the boss), Neha Dhupia (his childhood beloved), Rajat Kapoor (his foreigner doctor friend), Gaurav Gera (his younger brother) and Sarita Joshi (his mother).
The use of his “Guitar Ambition” is used well, as 8 out of 10 humans have a romantic liking towards guitar and they all wish they could play it. But the sequence with the Guitar Teacher could have been better as it misses to touch you deep down. Another part which could have been avoided or should have been made more interesting is Vinay’s stay with the prostitute in foreign and losing his virginity. The plot here had much more scope of comedy and passion but the director played it very loosely.
The best scene of the movie is when Vinay confesses his love to Neha in a mute way standing in the rain. Though the scene is brilliantly executed but sadly it is all inspired from a similar scene in “LOVE ACTUALLY”, where a guy expresses his love to the girl at her doorstep on the Christmas Eve only with his actions.
Kailash Kher and his associates have given music and background score too for the movie. What works in their soothing music is the simple arrangement and calmness in the notes. All the songs were not needed in the movie but “Pyari Maa, Mamma” stands out and stays in your mind.
On the whole, the movie is well directed and acted but what goes against it is the cliché and overused plot of a cancer patient living his last days to the max. Still you should not miss it as it is worth watching once with your loved ones.
One point I would like to mention here for all my friends reading this. As I was moving out of the theater I noticed that all the couples, families and people just walked out of the hall returning to the same talks and giggles as usual and no one looked like thinking about the main theme of the movie.
In my opinion, movies based on death and similar theme, only have one creative and social motive. And that is to make you remember your end, to make you remind that you also have to face it one day sooner or later. “Dasvidaniya” also gives you the same precious lesson that start making your “Things To Do Before You Die” List as you never know what will be there when you wake up next morning.
Rating : 3 / 5
24
Sep
08
Deadline -Sirf 24 Ghante (2006)
This thriller is a version of “Trapped” (2000) where a kid is kidnapped and as the kidnappers find that the kid is asthmatic, problems are there in their scheme of extortion.
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The Original “DON” (1978) starring Amitabh Bachhan, Zeenat Aman and Pran also had its inspirational Source. The main plot of plotting the double was taken from “Double Man” (1967). Chek out at : http://imdb.com/title/tt0061594/
But it was brillianlty adapted and the movie is surely one of most fast paced thriller movie ever filmed. One more interesting fact is associated with the hit song “Khaike Paan Banaras Wala” in the movie.
This song was a kind of “Item Number” and was added much later after completion of the film.
It was added to slow down the pace of the film as it was looking too fast and action packed.
And what an impact the song had on the viewers. Truly a remarkable film with inspiration used in the most creative manner.
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Nov
07
Deewane Hue Pagal
Hindi movie DEEWANE HUE PAGAL featuring Akshay & Paresh & Suniel Shetty is complete version of “There’s Something About Mary”. Its like seeing the same movie in Hindi with different characters and some Hindi Songs. Even the mannerisms of Suniel Shettly, the long mike used by Akshay, the Architect disguise, the little dog catching fire, every thing is just the same. You will have to see it to believe it.
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