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.
Originally published in PFC- check it out here- http://passionforcinema.com/dhoondte-reh-jaoge-time-for-some-mindless-harmless-fun/
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