Here is one more flick this week that is bound to doom as Haal-E-Dil. It had given lots of promises from the promos but it failed to fulfill it. Unlike its name and the title track, you hardly ever clap through out the film. Director E. Niwas had hit the gold with his very first film School by bagging the National Award for the best Hindi feature film in 2000.
Rating: 2/5
He doesn’t really score even a null point with this film. Just like Ram Gopal Varma was enticed with his Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, director E. Niwas would definitely get disillusioned about this pretty soon.
The writers must have been really happy with their work which made them go through the first part in a charming manner and then slowly they got tired of the story and left it go haywire.
Now, this also proves that some of the film fraternity still believes in the old school of film making. It has sparks of entertainment and the only modern factor is the graffiti thing that gives the friend s comic strip look till you wonder, from where it changed to a scary spoilsport regular slapdash Hindi film.
Another factor that seems like an eulogy dedicated to Big B Amitabh Bachchan. After a physical presence in Sarkar Raj, Big B features big time. One of the character plays a crazy Amitabh fan and keeps talking about him and his movies so much that you feel as if, the Bachchan family has paid E. Niwas for some free advertisement. His “My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves†hardly left any mark and he has no luck this time as well.
Comedy can be expressed with expressions or some funny gestures but that is good for a stand-up comedian but not a three hour film. To sit glued to your seat in a theatre, you need a full-fledged story with characters who entertain you.
The story and screenplay writers here must have given De Taali a miss. Looks like director E. Niwas was concentrating more on the sexy actresses and depended on some funny dialogues to work in his favor, now, nobody doubt his talents but he needs to get back his concentration from sexy curves to well written twists and finely carried out story.
The script far more loosely written to help the audience catch the breath when it changes momentum with a suddenness. Editing could have been even finely done and the film has some somber song and few can feature themselves in the pub but like Haal-E-Dil, it doesn’t help the film do well at the box office. However, it can pass off as an easy entertainer for youngsters.
The film concentrates on three friends, Abhi (Aftab Shivdasani), Paglu (Riteish Deshmukh) and Amu (Ayesha Takia). Between the two boys Abhi and Paglu, we have a typical tomboy Amu who likes their friendship too much to behave like a girl. The three friends and their tree house in an unknown country and undefined place, look cute as a canvas.
Abhi is a perpetual flirt, who falls in true love with everyone he meets even if the girl in question is a kleptomaniac or a nymphomaniac. The long list of girls show flirting with this guy include Hrishitaa Bhatt, who comes as a shoplifter, Anjana Sukhani, who is sizzling hot and Neha Dhupia, who is busy with her witchcraft.
Paglu is a true friend who would do anything and everything for his friends. It is he who makes Amu realize that she is in love with Abhi. But by the time this realization takes place, Abhi is already following a vampish Kartika (Rimi Sen). She is an alluring gold digger who pushes the men in her life to turn towards rehabilitation center.
Now, trying to save his friends from such a doom, Paglu who hatches a new plan every minute plans to kidnap Kartika and replace her with Amu’s love for Abhi. However one more twist beings in a sentimental past which Kartika had that makes her what she is today.
With this, the film goes into some crazy moments and then finally towards the fuzzy climax.
With this cast, it could have been a beautiful Karan Johar movie with a love triangle but the foursome hardly gives you the chance to get the best of either romance or comedy.
Acting wise Ayesha Takia shows of a superbly curvy body but her puppy fats again fail her at certain places. Aftab Shivdasani should have taken this chance to prove his acting skills but he doesn’t utilize this chance to the fullest. Riteish Deshmukh shows excellent comic timing and is as cute as ever. Rimi Sen look damn good as a sexy seductress. You should see her to believe how she makes the scenes work for her.
Vishal-Shekhar music is nothing wondrous and the film lacks as various places like screenplay and script and direction. Over all, the film is a one time watch n television.
Rating: 2/5
