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A still from ‘Dhamaal’.
Film: Dhamaal Cast: Arshad Warsi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi and Aashish Chowdhury Director: Indra Kumar Full marks to Indra Kumar for honesty. He makes absolutely no pretensions to sobriety, none whatsoever to even a semblance of seriousness. Boy! Does he do his business fine! His ‘Dhamaal’ has as thin a storyline as the width of a thread yet he goes on and on for more than a couple of hours. What’s more, in many bright patches he delivers. The film, as it turns out, is nothing but a series of gags, not much more than a clever interweaving of some comic sequences, many of which tickle. Kumar knows the market he is catering to. Let the moral brigade shout itself hoarse, let the critics rant but Kumar knows only one way of filmmaking: and he stays consistent on that path. ‘Dhamaal’ is the story – if one can call it that – of four no-hopers, Arshad Warsi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi and Aashish Chowdhury. The guys have no means of income, no employment. And since it is meant to be a commercial film for a section of the audience that does not ask even the most basic of questions, the guys dress up trendily, wearing the choicest labels. In between all this the four run after Rs.10 crore which some rich businessman – played from memory by Prem Chopra – had left behind in some church in Goa. But hold on, there is another angle to the foursome. There is Sanjay Dutt as a wooden cop, who has been after the amount for ten years too! Does the film work? Well in fits and starts. Where Kumar errs is in keeping his heavy artillery, Dutt, under wraps for a long time, then taking him out with as much care as a festive collection. Dutt though does nothing to prove he deserved better. Even as he ignores Dutt’s ability to carry a film on his shoulders, Kumar gives a long rope to his side guns, the four pranksters. And only Jaaferi with his half-mouthed lines rises above mediocrity. Cutting ‘Dhamaal’ story short, is the film worth a visit? Sorry guys, no matter how much one hates to say, it is the kind of film you watch and forget. No kamaal, really! ZIYA US SALAM
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