(MENAFN-Khaleej Times) all the action in dishkiyaoon fails to make any impact deepa gauri writes
Gone are the days when children aspired to be doctors and engineers. now they want to be ‘gangsters’ because having been bullied in school they have realised that an eye for an eye is a far better deal than turning the other cheek.
Well that is what dishkiyaoon wants us to believe. there is a philosophical outpouring by a smooth criminal who exalts the virtue of ‘hard work and dedication’ in any job - even if it is that of a gangster.
Dishkiyaoon is a movie where everybody whines and everybody makes tall pretentious statements. viki (harman baweja) much like his lady-love meera (ayesha khanna) has been denied love after his mother’s death. his father believes in gandhian principles and asks poor viki to turn his cheek to a school bully who happily slaps both.
So what does our kid do? he goes to small-time gangster tony (prashant narayanan) a god-fearing ‘good’ goon. he takes viki under his wings and even encourages the boy to become the big don.
But there are many such big dons to be eradicated before viki can reach his goals. and he has to endure a lot to achieve that; he has to be in jail narrate his life story to lakwa (sunny deol) mess around with his friend’s fiancée fight inter-gang rivalry fall in love and lose in love and even trek down to a country in the middle east on an important mission.
Being a gangster is no easy job. if any child wishes to be one watching dishkiyaoon is highly recommended. it will open his eyes to the hard realities that await him. in that sense dishkiyaoon indeed does us all a favour. it strips gangsters of their glory – a notion bollywood is guilty of perpetuating.
To be fair to harman baweja he gives the movie his best shot. whether that is good enough for you is another matter. if the film fails him as the perennially loser character he plays does in the movie it is because of a script that tries to be intelligent but has glaringly deep holes.
On the plus side the film is slickly shot and has some good action scenes. thankfully sunny doesn’t get into fighting mode so all water pumps in the area are left intact. there is also a definite effort by the director sanamjit singh talwar to bring in some realism – the bonding of tony and viki for example is indeed heart-warming – but then he spoils the script with terrible silliness.
Too much happens in dishkiyaoon but not too fast. there is hardly any logic other than the logic of the gun. and if you wait long enough the film’s producer shilpa shetty will make an appearance with an ‘item song.’ by then you are so dead and gone that no amount of gyrations on her part make a difference.
With harman puffing away in every scene the screen warns you ‘smoking kills.’ shilpa kills us with her wealth by funding the movie.
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