Kajol is more earnest, and both actors occasionally conjure up some fire when their eyes lock or when their grins match, but there is too little of this amid the increasingly loud tomfoolery. No actor in the world could have lifted this material, and Khan cleverly chooses to play his part - lips q-q-q-quivering, eyes 'intense' - with such showiness that it looks like he's in on the joke. Hamming, of course, is the sensible option in a film this badly written. Set mostly in a Goa so oversaturated it feels like an Aqua video, there is nothing here to be seen despite Varun Dhawan trying gamely to appear spontaneous and Shah Rukh Khan hamming it up like only he can. A lot of grown men share hugs and talk about how they love each other, all moist-eyed and overwhelmed, but this is too generic to care about and, disturbingly, too straight-faced to laugh at.Īs the plot unravels, involving rival gangster families, a bullet-ridden past and a Dilip Chhabria present, the film goes dimly through the motions, not even bothering - as Shetty normally insists, inanely - to tickle laughs out of us. Nothing, for example, happens in the first hour or so of the film. The contents are not merely un-fizzy but, unforgivably, flat. We expect insignificant froth from the director, but this particular can of Rohit Shetty has been lying open too long. Sure, there is a sparkle here and a gleam there of what could have been - and Kajol looks beguilingly beautiful, better here than ever - but Dilwale is an absolute dud. These have long been Shetty's favoured Lego blocks, and they have never been more visible than in Dilwale, where the greatest on screen pair in modern Hindi cinema are reduced to insignificance.
The shameless lifting of the scene is eclipsed by the tragic fact that the original prized the character's ingenuity, while the knockoff is all about budget and access.īudget and access. Except that this is only possible because Khan, a mafia don, has henchmen working for him, and because Khan, the mafia don, has a ton of money to spend on her.
Rohit Shetty's Dilwale has Kajol - a street-side artist who seems to have nothing better to do than buy high-contrast metallic nailpaint - give Shah Rukh Khan a similar five minutes, following which Khan throws out his take on the full Mosby.
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