Dil Bole Hadippa!!!

Dil Bole Hadippa!!!

Cast – Rani Mukherjee, Shahid Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Dalip Tahil, Poonam Dhillon, Sherlyn Chopra, Rakhi Sawant.

Direction – Anurag Singh

I, Veera Kaur, Left the Right handed batsman. Silence. 2 minutes after that you realize it is a joke and you need to laugh on it!!!!! And it is said at least 10 times in the movie. Anurag Singh might be the only one laughing on this line in this Universe and that includes the aliens of District 9, Alien, ET, Koi…Mil Gaya, etc.

Is batting all about hitting 6 sixes in one over? Is winning a match in cricket all about winning it in the last ball? Is Punjab all about singing and dancing? Though the obvious answer to all these questions is NO, but for Mr. Anurag Singh, director of Dil Bole Hadippa!!!, the answer is YES. We fail to understand the brilliance of Chak De! India. Normally, we would have liked India to take the last penalty stroke and score the winner (an offensive move), but in Chak De! India, Amin made India save the last penalty stroke (a defensive move) and still get as many cheers. In Rocky we have Stallone losing the fight in the end and yet managed to get the cheers from crowd by giving a spirited effort against star boxer. This is what makes a film good. I hate Lagaan’s ending also for that matter.

Oh Darling Yeh Hai India!

It is such an underrated gem of a movie. People regard this film as a failure of Ketan Mehta for not achieving the desired result. On the surface, yeah, it looks like a failure. After all the viewer gets the feeling of there is nothing serious going in the film. However, even on superficial viewing, Shah Rukh Khan ensures that even though the audience bad mouth the film like anything, they still watch until the last second of the movie. He puts in a tremendous amount of effort for this role. The film can be enjoyed at many levels. You can watch it as a “so bad its good film”, or as a fan of SRK; unfortunately that is what most did.  However, if you take the film very seriously and understand it, you will be rewarded.

This film is by no means spoon fed to the audience. The brain has to be engaged to appreciate the fact that what seems to be a senseless film is very very complicated within. Ketan Mehta sets this film in one night, there are multiple stories that get interconnected to make one hell of a film. A don, his son, a struggling actor, a prostitute, the President, and many more random elements, all meeting up in a strange kind of coincidence to generate the story.