Review: Dilwale (2015)

SRK, You Need to Stop Doing that!

Score: 3/10

The film is shit from the word GO. Varun Dhawan's sounds like he never grew up after the age 12 or may be was force fed with his dad's Govinda films, day and night with eye lids stapled to keep it from blinking, a la clockwork orange. He has tranformed into Govinda cube (I barely managed Govinda let alone cube). Kirti Sanon is another piece of trash, but I let her pass since she is a hottie, at least they offer something. SRK does shine in few moments with Kajol but he seems under pressure to deliver the so much talked about chemistry and hence uses all his moves whether its his curved eye brows or the arched smile. He has been glorified like a South Indian superstar with physics defying stunts wearing the look that only only impresses a straight collared rickshaw driver who would wear an aviator while driving , with Sanjay Dutt's painted posters as his mud guard graffiti. The film shifts gears from an action to romance stupidly, you don't realize when they are in love and when they want to fight. Some of SRK's emotionally romantic dialogues are so funnily delivered, you don't understand whether you're supposed to laugh or feel sorry for the situation. Kajol is slightly better compared to the rest.

The jokes are pure slapstick, Johnny Lever using the recycled formula of oscillating his eye brows up and down, Sanjay Mishra mouthing off one liners that makes you think whether it was targeted to the kindergarten audience, and Boman Irani playing the laughing stock one more time.

Cinematography is the usual hyper saturated bright colours with terribly LOW apertures that Rohit uses in all of his films. The production design is pathetically fake, unsurprisingly, in fact a set in a theater drama seems more deceiving than a Shetty film. He definitely needs to fire the guy he's been using for design or downsize his own brain. The films offers slightly more layers than his past films in terms of stories though, which still doesn't save the film from sliding down the manhole. The three stars is only for the slightly improved layers and SRK's final dialogue to Kajol, which will definitely bring a smile on your face.

(Image Source: King Khan and Kajol go Dilwale once again )