Review: Dil Dosti Etc
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SHAILEE VYAS
(Mumbai, India)
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I tried convincing a lot of my friends before going to the theatre to watch Dil Dosti Etc all alone. The film started and I wondered why didn’t they promote the film better? Doesnt Shreyas also have a fan following? I know of a lot of girls in my college who were crazy about Imaad Shah’s hairstyle. I even know of a girl who had come to our college to study from Delhi but then wanted to shift to Xavier’s, not because they teach better but because Imaad studied in that college. So if this film would have had better publicity, it would have been watched by many others, who according to me, have missed out on something nice and different.
For all those who have lived in or heard of Delhi University campus can relate to this film. The characters are very real… Politics, sex, career… is all that plays on their minds. For people like me — born and brought up in mumbai — this film is a little difficult to digest.
I happen to have older friends from Delhi University now in Mumbai, who have told me a lot about how Hansraj has the best hostel and how guys are made to play football on the ground without their pants on. Or you give your room to the seniors and they let you also do it, etc etc… You tell all this to someone from mumbai and they will be shocked and so were the people who “by chance” happened to see the film…
After the film got over, I overheard a lady telling her friend “I tell you these horny guys from Delhi come to Mumbai and make everybody around them horny.” I felt like telling her that guys in Mumbai are also born with…
Some mocked the film at times. When Imaad spoke of his philosophy or his interactions with the prostitute (I thought their equation was very beautifully handled) or when Shreyas was ragging the new guys or when they were hitting people around with hockey sticks. But this is how things are…
Somehow when somebody makes a film about sex, people don’t want to accept it. And that in spite of knowing that all this prevails in the society and it’s so human. I know of so many friends who are like Apoorva (Imaad), who are still solving the mysteries of love and lust. Though i have come across very few who would take out a gun if his girlfriend would turn up in a two-piece in front of him. I can undestand why Mr. Mishra (Shreyas) had to do that. His language, his body language and his thinking was enough to convince me that he was very much capable of doing that.
And the other thing uncommon to students of Mumbai is this level of involvement in politics. All the politics these guys here know is used during the various fests and not the politics where votes, narebazi, etc is concerned. All they are bothered about are the politics of corruption and how to shuffle the winning colleges’ scores…
I guess I always wanted to know more about what happens on a Delhi University campus and so I enjoyed the film but I guess for all those non-biased people out there, you can atleast go out there to watch something different. And some good performances at least. Please do go and watch this film… it will make you give a lot of things a second thought.
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not only that.one should understand the poltical undertone of this film.manish should have portrayed the real politics of campus.how they are infuenced by political parties.for a buy born and brought up in city like mumbai…for him its very difficult to understand sanjay’s outburst.
I guess this is happening with lots of movies today, be it DDE or JG, they both didn’t clicked because of “marketing”, same happened with many good movies like ” Teesri Kasam “, but interestingly publicity is not the ultimate formula to make a film hit, we’ve seen what happened to RGV’s frankestine (RGV ki Aag). I am not questioning our film makers talent but sometimes our moviemakers tends to make very local films with national feel, but I know we are making our steps forward in this direction. ‘DDE’ is very nice movie but it connects only to delhi students, same was with ‘Haasil’may be because our country is full of different culture, and language. I believe we will have to look into more global (please read national) approach in movie specially on students life because student life in delhi is entirely different from that of Allahabad, Mumbai or even in US. so what u all people say abt it?
i totally agree with you when you say india is full of different cultures .. but that doesnt mean we cant make films on their indivisual existence…
i loved that he made a film like DDE.. atleast we know what happens in our capital…
no idea can have a global (national) appeal… you make films on metroes .. remote areas’ audiences wont relate to them … but atleast they will know what happens and will start dreaming or working towards reaching there… you make films on rural problems … city audiences will blame the government if at all they feel like spending 2 hours of their time on problems of india…..
i guess one makes a film on his conviction and then i guess you should target the right audience..
i just hope this film is doing better in the northern areas…
In the end it just has to be a good film, with each character and situation neatly sketched out.
Making films about such local issues is also good since it gives it that unique flavour. If the film is good enough others would also enjoy it, like Haasil for example. I never saw an election in a college but could enjoy it nevertheless.
i was in hansraj hostel and we were made to play football only in our baniyans.. and “only baniyans”.. the other team wore only their undies and yes it use to happen there..
Lets not segmentize cinegoers..we cannot see that Dil Dosti Etc would work better in Delhi due to its Delhi univ set up. Movie is a movie.Its a cinematic experience. Titanic was one of the biggest hollywood hit in India..that does not mean that the Indians have to travel on a luxury liner through the Atlantic and expect their liner to sink out of the blue to relate to Titanic.
@ shailee..I would have liked a little more detailed review..but yours was fair enough.
I dont 9 wat was the movie all about.
Nt it was really a njoyable movie.
To see this movie u dont need to use ur brain just go n have fun.
I dont think that this movie targeted only delhi youths even being in mumbai we all friends njoyed this movie as much as delhites enjoyed it.
Such a Good movie
anurag sir,
when i was told that students did play football like that .. for that moment i was shocked .. and i just wondered how the other girls in the campus reacted!!
sourav,
ya i know .. i will improve the next time i write a review.. i guess this time it was more about the whole delhi university thing..
Hi Shailee,
This ‘review’ is more of your views on the story of the movie and the life in Delhi Colleges. And this part was good.
But a movie review needs some more focus on how the movie has been made. From next time, please try to write about that as well.
Your writing has got flare and use of ‘…’ is pretty good
hey abhishek,
i totally agree to you… these are my views onli on the story and delhi university … i wouldnt call it a review for this film.. but it fell into this category because the article revolves around the film
but.. thanks ya.. the next time, ill try writing a proper review
@shailee write a review typical bollywood ishtyle:d
Hi,
Having read the review and watching the movie would say the review is fair.It is good cinema which has a developing audience.Let the masses watch commercial stuff which is a no brainer.