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 The title genuinely lives up to its expectation. The audience at some point of time does start thinking – Dhoondte Reh Jaoge. The film kick starts with our short but loyal Anand Powar (Kunal
Khemu), the chartered accountant who always chooses to follow the
long-cut where on the other hand the world opts for the short-cut ways.
He does feel proud about it, although cursing that because of his
decision he is always looked down by others. His house is so small that
if he tries to stretch himself, the vessels start crumbling down. His
Bengali girlfriend, Neha (Soha Ali Khan) is unhappy about this and his
mama, Dilip Joshi, a theatre director is frustrated with him.
On the other hand is Aryan (Sonu Sood), an overconfident superstar who
intents to do films only with big directors. These are two ‘chapters’
but the biggest ‘chapter’ is Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal), who is drowned
in the sea of debts. He is a flop director who gave 10 consecutive
flops in a row. Raj is smart; smart when it comes to fooling others. He
drops the rickshaw and catches the other one, hence cutting down the
cost. He goes to a posh restaurant and leaves the bill for others to
pay. He wears his old shabby coat and secretly exchanges it with a new
one from the showroom. Now his only way of escaping his debts is to do
a movie with the star Aryan.
Aryan on the other hand ignores his offer thinking that who will
contribute in making another flop at the box-office. At this point of
time Raj meets Anand, who had some personal rivalry of fooling each
other more than once. They together plan out a deadly concept which
would fetch them a profit of 100 crores. Their only motive is to make
the biggest flop of the century which will fetch them the profit and
the sufferers will be the 10 financiers who will be unaware of each
others contribution in the movie.
They start their own company called ‘Raj Anand’ and money starts
flowing in. Finally, Aryan agrees to star in the movie along with Neha
(Soha) as the lead. The extra friendship and bonding between them makes
Anand jealous. If one wants to make a big flop who else will they
contact than Pervez Asaraff’ (Johnny Lever), who is a big time devotee
of Pakistan. Hearing the script Raj finalizes Pervez for a sum of
rupees one thousand only. They start working on the movie.
The script prepared by Pervez is all copies of big hit films like DDLJ,
Sholay, Lagaan and more. So by default the title of the film goes as
‘Solay se Lagaan Tak’. Raj and Anand decide that in the end there will
be a cricket match in which team Pakistan will win and this will
automatically make the film a big flop with tomatoes and potatoes
flying over the screen.
Unfortunately that does not happen due to Aryan’s involvement, which
again unfortunately Raj and Anand are unaware of. Dubai’s don’s
involvement as a financier put them in deeper trouble when every
financier comes to know that they are not the sole financier the film.
Dhoondte Reh Jaoge (DRJ) is a comedy film with amazing performance by
each and every artist. But no doubt the show stealers are none other
than Paresh Rawal and Johnny Lever. Their stupendous acting with a
spoon of masala comic timing make the audience laugh their hearts out.
The movie is entertaining all throughout the first half. The second
half of the film takes a rapid pace making things confusing and
irritating. The sequence where the actors enact the scenes from Sholay,
DDLJ, and Lagaan are a big turn off. Some of the dialogues are good
enough, especially the ones delivered by Paresh and Johnny, but most of
them doesn’t even get a smile on your face.
The music in the film is very satisfactory. Some of the songs are
annoying, especially the ‘tapori song’. Sajid-Wajid has certainly not
lived upto the expectation. A romantic song featuring Soha and Kunal
has been removed which was much praised by the team.
Director, Umesh Shukla has done a decent job and has plotted everything
very carefully. The major twists and turns in the movie are something
to make a note of. Unfortunately the very spark in the film is missing
which makes the movie a complete showdown. Anyways it was a good try by
the director but he needs to keep his flaws in mind.
All in all the film is for the people who are wanderers and just want
to spend their 3 hours in an air conditioner theatre or for people who
watch a movie just for the heck of it. Yes, if one is a die hard fan of
Paresh Rawal or Johnny Lever, they can certainly go for it.
Movie Review: Dhoondte Reh Jaoge
Star Cast: Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Kunal Khemu, Soha Ali Khan, Sonu Sood, Asrani
Banner: UTV Motion Pictures
Music Director: Sajid-Wajid
Director: Umesh Shukla
Ratings: * *
Pratik Maheshwari/ Sampurn Media
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