Dilwale (2015) - Movie Review

     With all the base in his voice, he holds her tightly by her arms, quite man-handling her to make her calm, he says, "Mere aankhon mein dekho Meera, tumhe sach pata chal jayega."

Now that's what we want when we see Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol doing an emotional romantic scene.

Dilwale gives you almost 100s of them.

Alright..Alright... much more than 100s of them. Okay?

It must be happening this way -

- Rohit Shetty starts his film with Casting Cars - 10 Lamborghinis, a couple of Hummers, Some Ferraris, Mustangs, a couple of cars designed by Dilip Chhabria (DC) and then Audis, BMWs, Mercs, and so on for the crowd in the background.
- Then Mr. Shetty goes to the Govt. of Goa and buys permissions to shoot in almost all nooks and corners of Goa.
- After that he must be getting some invitations of Ramoji Film City to use its London Lane.
- Once that is done he hires Choreographers and Action directors to handle the 40-40% of the film respectively, and then manages to pull of whatever is left of the film after the 2nd Unit director, Associate Director and In-Frame marketing sequences do their part of jobs.

Result of all this -

- Rohit Shetty gets to do all the car stunts by himself.
- He gives you a perfect Entertainer.
- He has everything that is sellable and ever sold over the years in any damn bollywood mainstream film ever made.
- He gets the best promotional cuts coz the whole film is made with a view that any damn part of the film, if by chance gets leaked, would also look like a promotional clip.
- He gives us all the reasons to keep all our stresses aside and just let ourselves enjoy every bit of entertainment that he has stuffed all the way in the film.

What happened here -

- Here he casted SRK yet again. SRK though he plays Raj in this film, SRK is here to play SRK himself. He is in the film to do that, doing what he became the KING KHAN. And to hell with all the ethics of Film-making and film language - I Enjoyed every single bit of it.

- Moreover, he had Kajol opposite SRK. SRK-Kajol are arguably the best ever screen-couple bollywood ever had. And after so many years we have them back on screen. The kids of 90s who were their fans couldn't ask for more. Shetty has done the complete justice to this couple.

Especially in the One-shot sequence of "5-minute Date", and songs - Gerua and Janam Janam.

They capture your attention and you just don't want them to stop playing the hit-jodi.

- Apart from that he has two youngstars - Kriti and Varun. So the kids of 2000s who do not know the magic of SRK and Kajol, but think that these youngstars are magical would also come to the screens to watch them.

- And with everything already served in the most entertaining dish, he has his own set of most talented force of sweet dishes - Johnny Lever, Boman Irani, Sanjay Misra, Pankaj Tripathi, Mukesh Tiwari, Vinod Khanna and Kabir Bedi... for their incomparable timing of humour and dialogue delivery.

The film is a treat to the eyes with uncompromising production design and VFX.

Finally,
I loved this film more than Bombay Velvet (NO comparison in the quality of cinema, but I am taking about the expectations part of it)...because, there, When you go to see a Kashyap film, you get something else, but here, YOU get EXACTLY what you go in for.
Here, you get what you expect from Rohit Shetty and he delivers it with his head all high.

Staying true to the genre and without getting into any correct or incorrect part of criticism -

My Verdict : 8/10.

P.S. -

I would make a film like this atleast once in my lifetime. Not this Dilwale type of film... but a film where in I would think like Rohit Shetty.

Casting Ranbir Kapoor for playing a hardcore Artist,
Casting Boman to play a character totally undefined on paper (Coz only Boman Irani can define what is undefined for anyone through his acting.)
Casting Farhan just so that I can use his voice,
Casting Hritik so that I can use a song so charismatic that it would be an epic dance number.
Casting Shahid Kapoor so he plays that monologue of Haider again.
Bringing in all the vehicles I dream of boasting in front of my Mansion as the owner,
Taking all kind of shots I imagine every time I write a script for cinema.
Make a film where in any person involved is involved because he has to give out what he is best at. Including Myself.
A film where the Maker of the film would be the Hero of the project.

Rohit Shetty - Respect!

Tamasha

     "Voi Kahani Fir ek baar, Majnu ne diye Kapde phaad....maar Tamasha beech bazaar" and with the tag line of  - why the same old story every time? - Tamasha's trailer hooked me instantly.

     Being a Ranbir Kapoor's super fan and the guy who adores Imtiaz Ali's films like my ideal Romantic Genre films, the colourful trailer was a confirmation that there isn't going to be any disappointment.

And there ISN'T.

     Tamasha is a journey on which we all should go at some point of our lives. Be an 'Interpol officer' and 'Don' the 'Cap' of the 'evergreen superstar' and star in the story where you go to find yourself within You.

     Tamasha is a film that is shown in two lenses and two tracks - one linear and one non-linear. All four of them going simultaneously hand in hand. It starts with a Tamasha (drama/play) having a Mediocre (this is the word which has more footage than Ranbir-Deepika together in this film, and thus I have to mention this word.), boring and Robotic life of a common man. Which is our first linear track taking us back to the flashbacks which is our second and non-linear track. In that flashback we have a girl (who the guy meets bohot kos door, dil aur duniya ke beech), Tara (Deepika Padukone), who is our first lens of the film. The film starts from the lens of Tara and how the guy who has come in her life enchants her mind completely in seven days with a promise of never meeting again. 4 years later, after taking along his thoughts all the time with her, when Tara meets that Guy, she learns that he is Vaid (Ranbir Kapoor) and lives a very different life than what she carried along with herself about him. And then comes up the question for Vaid that Which one of him is the true him. The one who met Tara 4 years back or the One who he is right now. With this, the film shifts to the 2nd lens from Vaid's perspective and continues itself to the climax.

     Ranbir and Deepika both look stunning and have beyond imagination chemistry. Both stay in your mind individually. Ranbir is the finest actor and Deepika can pull off anything with the deep sincerity and conviction.

     Ravi Varman's camera seems disoriented in the beginning coz of certain inconsistency in the clarity of the story. But that's just in the beginning until the characters know each other. Once that happens the camera work grows with the age of our characters. Well planned shots and well edited sequences by Aarti Bajaj gives this film something to look up to.

     Production Design by Snigdha Basu, Sumit Basu, Rajnish Hedao, and Art by Arnaud Putman is one of the best things of this film. Amazing Locations, very good decorations and uncompromising use of sets and properties to make everything authentic yet polished, has stolen the show of rest of the departments except Music.

     A.R. Rahman once again has scored a great great score and has made feel of the film magical. You have to watch the film to have the 100% impact of the music. The film is incomplete without its Music and the Music is a little short of something without the film.

     Finally Imtiaz Ali.... Imtiaz has given us another piece of art. Another reason to be what you really are. His visualisation and his ease in his films make us connect more. Though his films are always giving us the false hopes of meeting someone like Deepika, Kareena, Nargis or Alia,  on a trip or something, or someone like Ranbir, Shahid or Randeep  helping you to make a call for yourself when you are in deep shit, even though this is the case, it does caters to your alter ego where you want something like this to happen.

     He is just like me. Whatever he feels like doing in his own life, he makes his character do it for him. He lives the life through their eyes and makes every one of his viewers get in their skin for those few minutes of the film's run time.

     Yet another escapist story, where the escapism turns into a very soft rebel of being someone you always were and doing what you want to do to have a perfect ending for the story of your life.

     The last part after titles where Deepika and Ranbir are dancing listening songs in their respective headphones is the cherry on the cake, which suggests that though they both lead a life together they have an individuality of their own and they both are still in the character who they enjoy being.

Verdict - 8.5/10