Movie Review: Dilwale

Movie Review: ‘Dilwale’ by Hemant Dinkar

Rating: 3/5

Director: Rohit Shetty

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan, Kirti Sanoon

Gone are the days when local goons bullied Indians in central Europe. We now have our own mafia bosses in that part of the world. If Akshay Kumar cut them to size inside Romania in Singh Is Bliing, Shah Rukh Khan riddled them with a million more bullets than Kumar in Bulgaria. And yes, Khan has definitely blown more cars than his counterpart. Take that, Europeans! But, Dilwale is still a love story, a violent one though, for the audience.

Now come’s a different era of the Director who wants to make movies just to make money or to make so called Box office happy!
Yes, Rohit Shetty is One of them and so do his latest flick DIWALE !

Let me start from here, if “ choti choti baatein’ doesn’t bother you and you also have special capability to keep your mind at home when you watch movie at the theater then YES , DIWALE is for you !

In Diwale all we have is a fabricated story. The Set is replaced by the painted pictures of the life. Story is replaced by the artificial world of the computer graphics. Diwale is so disappointed that it will suppress the images of those big starts who once even stole your heart.  Now seeing the shadow of those stars in the film is more painful.  Consistent with the growing compulsion to roll ask or demand character, the movie is not generous in SRK’s presence.

All the typical Shetty characters assemble very early in the film and their confidence suggests that they have already assumed Dilwale a box office winner, which it could be. But then, emotional scenes start to fall flat and the story begins to lose track.

As far as the question of Chemistry of Khan with Kajol in the film concern, due to repeatedly villainous element, it kind of completely disappeared. The SRK-Kajol together now to win the hearts rather fetching story needs some seasoning film. Meanwhile, Varun and Kriti Sanon work under the umbrella of its senior are lost in the movie. Varun particularly frustrated that whatever Heroic image he created for himself in last 5 movies seems to look lost and he is kind of new ‘ Zayed khan’ in this movie.

Dilwale found in traditional Bollywood films drawn from all spices. Two brothers, one of whom was picked up by the father from the street. Two sisters (among whom the ‘Bahen ka pyar’ is not even emerge on screen). These brothers and sisters of the mafia father, who never had friends, become enemies. The older boy-girl love in the enemy families brings misunderstandings between the firing. So the Old Boy-Girl took different path and their reunion happened after fifteen years. Now the very first predictable thing happened is that younger brother fall in love with the younger sister as there is NO other girl/boy for them. The winding streets of the story in which you bend forward easily know is coming. So there is no question of excitement here. As usual Rohit’s movie has comedy element with half a dozen artists. So you start taking yawning between aging romances. Actually, Rohit Shetty’s previous multi-starrer films have the same tried formulas here.

They are cars flying. This time the blow was saris. A colorful set of storytelling style is something which is Rohit’s special new feature. The film and paint technically correct enough to bring story in a different way with ‘MASALA maar ke’. Bulgaria has some beautiful locations shooting.

Despite all the excitement, those artificial attempts of laugh, THE heart of the movie is missing from this generous.  It will be a HIT deal for Rohit & SRK,  This DILWALE is only for someone who have DIL (Without mind) to sit in the cinema hall for 2.5 hours else Skip it.

Movie Review by Hemant Dinkar for Spotlife Asia