Dhoondte Reh Jaoge- Time for some mindless, harmless fun!!!
Ok in this time of recession and with a lot of heaviness on our head, one sometimes looks forward to going easy on oneself. So on March 11th while we were all celebrating Holi across the country, I was just feeling a bit low and wanted to unwind myself. Considering that I was celebrating a festival with my whole family after ages, taking the entire family out for a movie looked to be the logical thing to do. Since I was more or less up to date on the current releases unlike my parents, I was really wondering which movie I should go for. That was when on instinct I decided to ignore all reviews and just go ahead and watch Dhoondte Reh Jaoge ( DRJ from hereon).Something within me told me that the next 2 & ½ hours spent in the multiplex would certainly help me unwind very well.
For the benefit of those may not be aware of the movie let me tell you that DRJ released on March 6th, 2009 and is a UTV production. Written and directed by Umesh Shukla, the movie stars Kunal Khemu,Paresh Rawal,Soha Ali Khan,Sonu Sood,Johny Lever etc. To be extremely honest the story as such is quite ridiculous. It’s all about two people who are both losers in their own right. One of them, Anand Pawar ( Kunal Khemu) is an upright Chartered Accountant who keeps getting thrown out of work due to his honesty and the other is Raj Chopra, a once famous producer who’s now on the run as he’s hiding from his creditors.
After a series of altercations, Anand Pawar & Raj Chopra decide to join together and make it big and turn over their own destinies. And what’s the plan for the same? Simple- they decide to make a flop movie. The logic being that they would make a movie at a fraction of the money raised for the same & end up making such a bad movie that it would flop and so they need not repay the money back. Thus the two get going- they rope in Aryan Kapoor (Sonu Sood) as the hero who himself is desperate for a hit & Neha Chattopadhyay ( Soha Ali Khan)- Anand’s girlfriend as the heroine. Johny Lever steps in as the “ghatiya” story writer. The movie- Sholay Se L’gaan Tak is made. Does it turn out to be a flop? Do Anand & Raj make the money they needed? What happens to the rest of the people?
The movie is a mad caper and that is evident when you see some of the scenes especially when the film shooting starts. There are enough sequences which make you laugh till you ache & you do not really have to look at your watch in an irritated fashion. Music by Sajid-Wajid is strictly ok. In terms of performance Kunal Khemu & Parsh Rawal are both earnest, Soha doesn’t get much scope, Sonu Sood is efficient (comes in a variety of get-ups too) and it’s great to see Johny Lever in form after a long time.
Yes the story is hardly path breaking, some of the dialogues are silly & the sets are certainly tacky and not worth talking about. But all said and done, when the intention is to laugh & be merry as John Masefield said,DRJ is certainly not a bad choice at all.
Tags: Johny Lever, Kunal Khemu, Paresh Rawal, Soha Ali Khan, Sonu Sood, Umesh Shukla
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Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
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Partho Sen-Gupta
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i hope someone sues UTV for plagiarism. clearly, they are no better than your regular mom n pop producers.
@ dabba- which is the film in question?I’m not aware of the same.But whatever it be I’m sure the other movie would not have the kind of situations this one has
This movie evidently didn’t have a fixed script and was written on the sets. But skepticism aside, the first half was very funny. Especially that scene where Johnny lever reveals the story of the film. And that japanese angle is brilliantly done. I still laugh when I remember Paresh’s conversation with Jackie Chan.
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The movie starts to hit rock bottom after the ’shooting of the flop film’ starts and that whole Sonu Sood angle is ridiculous. Actually, the movie starts to lose when the major chunk of the jokes are given to sonu sood and soha instead of Kunal Khemu and paresh rawal.
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And the climax is so bloody bullshit that it makes you feel that it has been written by a 8th std. kid with a dummies guide to writing comedy.
It’s that bad.
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But that apart, I honestly recommend the movie to everyone especially for the first half. The japanese angle, johnny lever and paresh rawal’s aptitude to say bad dialogues is totally worth your ticket’s worth.
Isn’t this the desi version of ‘The Producers’?
Sure sounds like it!
I do remember laughing my head off in ‘The Producers’.
Hope this does the same :-)
Dabba,Steve- its indeed a desi version of “The Producers”- just checked it out.But Steve I’m sue the gags here are original & so you’ll surely laugh your head off @ times
Poor Mel Brooks
The movie lived up to the title – Dhoondhte Reh Jaoge – Kya?
Answer – Humar, story..and finally audience in the theatre. Lolz
It was worse thn CC2C. I wud rather watch Yuvraj and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom back to back.
Ashu Bhai MAPRM Wale
And like they decided to make a flop movie (in the movie)..they actually made one (in reality)
waste of time and money – dhhondte reh jaoge
Can we have a Society For Prevention of Plagiarism, and a warning that all Plagiarists could be quartered alive?
C’mon it is good thing, more people will see The Producers because of this movie.
this was a hilarious movie …put in a star and it would have done well too …there were not too many ppl in the hall when i watched but those who were around laughed their guts out.
Johnny Lever was BRILLIANT!
Ashu bhai MAPRM wale, LOL!
Ur comments are hilarious :-)
But, like Sethu, I also watched this film in quite a low mood and actually enjoyed it!
Most of it is good and the funny parts are BLOODY FUNNY!
Kunal Khemu was in a good role FOR ONCE!
Getting a bit annoyed with his choices.
I’ve always felt we should have Bollywood spoofs and this came pretty close.
Johnny Lever’s wife was hilarious too!
‘Aap log kuch peeyenge’ she asks whilst stone drunk!
And then, ‘YEH AWARD HUM HI JEETENGE!’
Lol!
@ Steve- good that you had a similar experience like that of mine while watching it.Yes Kunal Khemu is good- hope he does better stuff!!!