Saturday, March 7, 2009

Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge - Review


Caution: Watch this movie only if you are really bored or just want to leave your brains somewhere and go de-stress with some stupid cinema.

This movie deals with the capers of Anand Powar (Kunal Khemu), a struggling chartered accountant & Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal) a flop movie director.
They both have only one aim, to make some money & make it fast.
That's when they hatch the most ingenious plan of them all. To collect money (100 cr) from 20 financiers & make the worst film of all time. Make it for 5 cr and once the movie flops, go away with the rest of the money to enjoy the rest of their lives.
For this movie they take Aryan (Sonu Sood) an actor who wants to work with only the bigwigs, but agrees to the movie, opposite him they cast Anands girlfriend Neha (Soha) & take on Pervez Asharaff (Jhonny Lever) as the writer.
The story is a hybrid version of DDLJ, Gadar, Lagaan & ofcourse Sholay.

The first half of the movie is quite funny and some of the scenes are trully hilarious. Many moments have you in splits & actually build up some hope for the second half.
But the second half strongly disappoints for most of it, leave the pre-climax sequences which again, are absolutely hilarious. What this movie lacks is consistency.
When you look at the story at hand, they could have definitely gone all out and made it a laugh riot but they strongly falter at many points. A slow second half, bad jokes & utterly sad music.

From the actors, it is Paresh Rawal all the way. A special applause for him, as this genius shows yet again why his comic timing is absolutely flawless. He carries the movie on his shoulders, and whatever pride this movie salvages is credited to him.
Sonu Sood, Soha Ali & Kunal Khemu are strictly ok. Jhonny Lever too appears rusty.

All in all, this movie would make a good cable tv watch, you can definitely skip the cinema halls & wait next week for Gulaal.

Critical - 2/5
Commercial - 1/5

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