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Waste Of Talent: The actors seem clueless for the most part and Jaaved Jaaferi manages to rise above the nonexistent script. Double Dhamaal (Hindi) Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Kangana Ranaut, Mallika Sherawat, Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi, Ashish Chowdhury Director: Indra Kumar In the season of sequels, here comes the second instalment of Dhamaal, a sleeper hit. This one tries to inject a booster dose but succeeds in only doubling the headache. Crude, lewd, preposterous…once again we have a comedy that takes slapstick to a new low. Indra Kumar, one of the popular directors of the melodramatic 1990s, has lost his jokey touch. We don't expect intelligent cinema from him but some coherence in writing and minimal dignity in dialogues is necessary to call a farce a piece of creativity. The pack of losers (Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi and Ashish Chowdhury) is back and this time it tries to con Kabir (Sanjay Dutt), the crooked police officer of the first part, who has now become a shady tycoon. As they try to blackmail him to make them partners in his company, they don't realise they are being lured into a trap by Kabir, his fiancée Kamini (Mallika Sherawat) and his sister Kiya (Kangana Ranaut), who are taking them for a ride. After some listless gags involving a gangster-turned-baba (Satish Kaushik), they realise the plot and vow to take revenge, only to be duped all over again. The actors seem clueless for the most part but try hard to generate a few giggles. Things marginally improve in the second half when amidst the chaos, Jaaved manages to rise above the script as the man-child and Arshad makes some stupid lines funny. Mallika sizzles as Jalebi but when it comes to acting, the results are not as sweet. Kangana has worked on her dialogue delivery but she is reduced to a showpiece. ANUJ KUMAR
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