Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Anupam Kher, Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, what a cast. VK is serious all aound, RK is good, JC is somewhere good, AK, KK, SK did the most, hilarious chaos. Overall I loved the comedy. I liked the movie. Songs are good. Singers are good. Recommended for comedy lovers.
6 Reviews
Turn off your brains
South_Node17 May 2005
Warning: Spoilers
A particularly hilarious plot (now where have I seen this before), involves, Deeka (played by Vinod Khanna), who has committed various crimes, but ends up in jail only when he decides to give himself up to DCP Bully (Anupam Kher) to escape from the clutches of gangster Bhujang(Kiran Kumar). After spending many years in jail, he goes to the bank to withdraw money, where he is involved in a bank robbery done by Inder a.k.a Eena (Rishi Kapoor). The police led by DCP Bully get the idea that Deeka is the bank robber, while Eena is a poor bystander taken hostage. Deeka in order to avenge the baseless charge kidnaps DCP Bully's daughter Meena (Juhi Chawla). If you manage to turn off your sense of logic, this movie may make perfect sense to you.
Ridiculously bad
jahangirhussain742 December 2013
Eena Meena Deeka is one of those brainless David Dhawan movies where every scene is illogical. The film is so bad with several songs which pop in every now and then.
One of the stupid scenes in Eena Meena Deeka is when the fat lead rips off the heroine's mini skirt and out of the blue they break into a song. Boo!!
The 90s were a really low phase for Rishi Kapoor who gained a lot of weight by then and started delivering one dud after another. And in a movie with such a ridiculous plot you can expect almost nothing from him. Vinod Khanna looked bored throughout. Juhi Chawla does what she does best- giggle, giggle and giggle! Anupam Kher as the commissioner irritates. Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor were too over-the-top.
The songs were completely unnecessary and drag the already boring film to a large extent. I wonder why I even watched this movie. It's so bad that it's not even worth mentioning. Avoid!
One of the stupid scenes in Eena Meena Deeka is when the fat lead rips off the heroine's mini skirt and out of the blue they break into a song. Boo!!
The 90s were a really low phase for Rishi Kapoor who gained a lot of weight by then and started delivering one dud after another. And in a movie with such a ridiculous plot you can expect almost nothing from him. Vinod Khanna looked bored throughout. Juhi Chawla does what she does best- giggle, giggle and giggle! Anupam Kher as the commissioner irritates. Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor were too over-the-top.
The songs were completely unnecessary and drag the already boring film to a large extent. I wonder why I even watched this movie. It's so bad that it's not even worth mentioning. Avoid!
Totally brainless movie!
crystalbloo923 December 2005
Eena Meena Deeka was not all that great. The plot may be hilarious and all, but made no sense what so ever! I guess you could pretty much say that Eena Meena Deeka is totally pointless. Watching this film is like practically throwing your brains away!
As for the music, I thought it was OK, but it could've been a little bit better....
There are millions of other Bollywood films out there. If you didn't watch Eena Meena Deeka, believe me; you're not missing ANYTHING! Don't waste your time watching this film, watch something worthwhile!
Overall, Eena Meena Deeka deserves a 3/10!
As for the music, I thought it was OK, but it could've been a little bit better....
There are millions of other Bollywood films out there. If you didn't watch Eena Meena Deeka, believe me; you're not missing ANYTHING! Don't waste your time watching this film, watch something worthwhile!
Overall, Eena Meena Deeka deserves a 3/10!
Worst Movie
nsbumb5 September 2020
The UN should write on the cover: "Very Unhealthy Movie. Medical Help Required" !
elshikh415 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
An Indian movie on TV. Good. Starring 2 of Amar Akbar Anthony's fame (Vinod Khanna) and (Rishi Kapoor). Fine. And it's from the non-Americanized phase of that cinema too. Great. So why I wanted to smash the TV during it?!!
Originally this was made as a dream to entertain, but ended up as a nightmare of hallucination. My condition while the viewing was disastrous. Actually watching this movie is much better movie itself, because I was like this; from board, wanting to sleep. To sick, in pain. Then laughing hysterically (at myself!). To sick and even in stronger pain. To end up dizzy, laughing hysterically, sad, and saying repeatedly: "NO. NO. NOOOOO!".
At first, I just noticed that it's a remake of the American (Three Fugitives - 1989) which was itself a remake of the French (Les fugitifs - 1986). So it's a world of few original ideas. The most important matter now is; how this Indian version is made?
They put the main form of it in the Bollywood machine. Made the temporarily mute child from the original (mute? Not here pal!) into 2 characters: a sick mother; so the lead can sacrifice for her, and a runaway bride; so the lead can get married in the end. Added 2 beggars for a comic relief, played by (Kader Khan) and (Shakti Kapoor), and one evil gangster to heat the action up. Blended in the usual: a lost and found theme, action, dancing, with lots and lots and lots and lots of songs. The outcome of that is TERRIBLE!
The movie's top problem is that it wanted to be a masala. Even the title (Eena Meena Deeka), with 3 names in it, evokes masala movies like (Amar Akbar Anthony), (Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi), etc. However that was done wrongly. The story got murdered brutally. The script overdid all the elements, especially the songs, in no system or fun, while making so weak, rather idiot, drama as well (The mom remembers the matter of her lost son VERY LATE I must say!). So it ended up as not (Three Fugitives) or an amusing masala either.
The naivety of this movie is higher than the Himalaya. At one point, the girl was kidnapped, the whole police forces were searching for her and her kidnapper all over the city, while the last 2 were happily dancing, with all the Indian people, right in the middle of the streets. So Am I crazy? No dear. Not you. It's the baddies who make things of this sort!
(Rishi Kapoor) looked fat in scenes, and fatter in others. He was silly in the supposed comic moments. And the heroine is at least 20 years younger than him. (Shakti Kapoor) played a man with disabled hands, intellectual disability, and deformed face, thinking that that was funny?? There is a song every 5 minutes; this is inhuman overkill, especially when 99% of the songs is unnecessary. It made me remember a friend of mine who used to say "Indian movies? It's where the lead sings if he's glad, sad, or his feet hits a stone in the road!".
And when the third act rips off the third act of (Amar Akbar Anthony), with the game of disguise, stopping a marriage, a song, a climactic battle--I felt bad, real bad. It was pathetic to watch (Rishi Kapoor) in the same outfit and character of the old tailor from the mentioned movie, reusing it once more, or maybe recuperating its memories during a phase where he extremely missed the quality of movies he did 20 years earlier!
Speaking of eras, there is something distinguished about the commercial Indian movies at the 1990s; they're nearly all undistinguished! I can recognize them from miles away. They are more like the American movies in the 1970s. The 2 got awful haircuts, disgraceful budgets, totally bland taste, low artistic points, and kind of bad movie-making as a whole.
Positive points? Are you kidding me?! Hmmm, let's say that the direction showed a noticeable liveliness, (Vinod Khanna) was so right in his role yet with the wrong everything, some lines drew my attention as wise, the indoor sets were dazzling at times, and of course not the average songs or dance numbers; it's only the fact that they were so Indian unlike the miserable copying from MTV that Bollywood lives nowadays!
It's swollen, loud and endless. I know that I won't watch not Indian movies but movies again unless after a while. Not due to a case of fullness it causes, but simply for what it demands of a good D-Tox after it!
Originally this was made as a dream to entertain, but ended up as a nightmare of hallucination. My condition while the viewing was disastrous. Actually watching this movie is much better movie itself, because I was like this; from board, wanting to sleep. To sick, in pain. Then laughing hysterically (at myself!). To sick and even in stronger pain. To end up dizzy, laughing hysterically, sad, and saying repeatedly: "NO. NO. NOOOOO!".
At first, I just noticed that it's a remake of the American (Three Fugitives - 1989) which was itself a remake of the French (Les fugitifs - 1986). So it's a world of few original ideas. The most important matter now is; how this Indian version is made?
They put the main form of it in the Bollywood machine. Made the temporarily mute child from the original (mute? Not here pal!) into 2 characters: a sick mother; so the lead can sacrifice for her, and a runaway bride; so the lead can get married in the end. Added 2 beggars for a comic relief, played by (Kader Khan) and (Shakti Kapoor), and one evil gangster to heat the action up. Blended in the usual: a lost and found theme, action, dancing, with lots and lots and lots and lots of songs. The outcome of that is TERRIBLE!
The movie's top problem is that it wanted to be a masala. Even the title (Eena Meena Deeka), with 3 names in it, evokes masala movies like (Amar Akbar Anthony), (Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi), etc. However that was done wrongly. The story got murdered brutally. The script overdid all the elements, especially the songs, in no system or fun, while making so weak, rather idiot, drama as well (The mom remembers the matter of her lost son VERY LATE I must say!). So it ended up as not (Three Fugitives) or an amusing masala either.
The naivety of this movie is higher than the Himalaya. At one point, the girl was kidnapped, the whole police forces were searching for her and her kidnapper all over the city, while the last 2 were happily dancing, with all the Indian people, right in the middle of the streets. So Am I crazy? No dear. Not you. It's the baddies who make things of this sort!
(Rishi Kapoor) looked fat in scenes, and fatter in others. He was silly in the supposed comic moments. And the heroine is at least 20 years younger than him. (Shakti Kapoor) played a man with disabled hands, intellectual disability, and deformed face, thinking that that was funny?? There is a song every 5 minutes; this is inhuman overkill, especially when 99% of the songs is unnecessary. It made me remember a friend of mine who used to say "Indian movies? It's where the lead sings if he's glad, sad, or his feet hits a stone in the road!".
And when the third act rips off the third act of (Amar Akbar Anthony), with the game of disguise, stopping a marriage, a song, a climactic battle--I felt bad, real bad. It was pathetic to watch (Rishi Kapoor) in the same outfit and character of the old tailor from the mentioned movie, reusing it once more, or maybe recuperating its memories during a phase where he extremely missed the quality of movies he did 20 years earlier!
Speaking of eras, there is something distinguished about the commercial Indian movies at the 1990s; they're nearly all undistinguished! I can recognize them from miles away. They are more like the American movies in the 1970s. The 2 got awful haircuts, disgraceful budgets, totally bland taste, low artistic points, and kind of bad movie-making as a whole.
Positive points? Are you kidding me?! Hmmm, let's say that the direction showed a noticeable liveliness, (Vinod Khanna) was so right in his role yet with the wrong everything, some lines drew my attention as wise, the indoor sets were dazzling at times, and of course not the average songs or dance numbers; it's only the fact that they were so Indian unlike the miserable copying from MTV that Bollywood lives nowadays!
It's swollen, loud and endless. I know that I won't watch not Indian movies but movies again unless after a while. Not due to a case of fullness it causes, but simply for what it demands of a good D-Tox after it!
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