Priydarshan + Akshay Kumar + Sunil Shetty + Paresh Rawal. This equation has worked wonders in the past, so it was not so unreasonable of me to expect a little bit of fun from their latest venture. How wrong I was! Wo kahte hai na.. Jane do yar, jo bhi kahte hai.. Presented below are a fraction of the salient features of the crap that is collectively known as 'De Dana Dan'!
The problem of employment: Bollywood produces around 800 movies per year, and one would think that that would be enough to solve the unemployment problem. Apparently that one is wrong! So this movie gives screen space to everybody. But as every character is as devoid of purpose as the next one, you would never feel that one of them deserved more.
Cheapness sells (at least some think so): Thanks to Ms. Sherawat, I thought I knew what sells. The team behind DDD begs to differ. They tend to think that putting lot of cheap dialogs like dikhau mere sanskar is gonna fetch them audience.
Audience are Einsteins: The filmmakers made some generous assumptions regarding the IQ of the average moviegoer. As I mentioned, there are tons of characters, and the complextity goes up with n2. It's OK to have the element of confusion, but not to the point where one has to constantly ping 'bajuwale' with ye kaha se aaya?'
Songs: There MUSTMUSTMUST be songs. Doesn't matter if they absolutely suck in every possible way. You HAVE to put them in. At least that's what the movie tends to say.
OK, I can go on like this, but here's a thought that just came to me. I might be a lukkha, but not so lukkha as to waste any more of time writing a review for this totally worthless movie. Jitna likha kafi samzo, n dekhna hi hai to kuch aur dekho!
The problem of employment: Bollywood produces around 800 movies per year, and one would think that that would be enough to solve the unemployment problem. Apparently that one is wrong! So this movie gives screen space to everybody. But as every character is as devoid of purpose as the next one, you would never feel that one of them deserved more.
Cheapness sells (at least some think so): Thanks to Ms. Sherawat, I thought I knew what sells. The team behind DDD begs to differ. They tend to think that putting lot of cheap dialogs like dikhau mere sanskar is gonna fetch them audience.
Audience are Einsteins: The filmmakers made some generous assumptions regarding the IQ of the average moviegoer. As I mentioned, there are tons of characters, and the complextity goes up with n2. It's OK to have the element of confusion, but not to the point where one has to constantly ping 'bajuwale' with ye kaha se aaya?'
Songs: There MUSTMUSTMUST be songs. Doesn't matter if they absolutely suck in every possible way. You HAVE to put them in. At least that's what the movie tends to say.
OK, I can go on like this, but here's a thought that just came to me. I might be a lukkha, but not so lukkha as to waste any more of time writing a review for this totally worthless movie. Jitna likha kafi samzo, n dekhna hi hai to kuch aur dekho!
Nicely summarized review ...
ReplyDeleteyea..this is a nice review..ilikes :)
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