Dhamaal (2007)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Indra Kumar

Writers:

Paritosh Painter (story)
Paritosh Painter (screenplay)

Release Date:

7 September 2007 (India)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Four slackers and con-men namely: Boman Contractor, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with his eccentric dad...

Plot Keywords:

Race | Goa | Airplane | Stolen Car | Landlady

Cast

Ritesh Deshmukh	...	Deshbandhu 'Dectective' Roy
Arshad Warsi	...	Aditya 'Adi' Shrivastav
Javed Jaffrey	...	Manav Shrivastav
Sanjay Dutt	...	Inspector Kabir Nayak
Asrani	...	Nari Contractor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vinay Apte
Rana Jung Bahadur	...	Kailash
Aashish Chaudhary	...	Boman Contractor
Prem Chopra	...	Bose
Kurush Deboo	...	Dwivedi
Ninad Kamat
Sanjay Mishra	...	Baabu Bhai
Suhasini Mulay	...	Landlady
Manoj Pahwa	...	Pilot
Vijay Patkar
Vijay Raaz	...	Devkumar Malik - Air Traffic Controller, Goa (as Vijay Raj)
Surendra Rajan
D. Santosh
Kiku Sharda
Murli Sharma
Tiku Talsania	...	Bombay Police Commissioner M.I. Chaturvedi

Runtime:

136 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

Ireland:PG | Portugal:M/6

Company:

Maruti International

Trivia:

Director Indra Kumar had gone to see Paritosh Painter's play "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil", and was so impressed with Paritosh's style of writing that he offered him the job of writing this film.

Movie Connections:

References "Mr. Bean" (1990)

Nice surprise

The movie has really come out as a nice surprise. I watched it expecting it to be very stupid and rubbish comedy like 'Dhol' or 'Tom. Dick and Harry'. I even was not having any intention of watching this movie, as I know what to expect from such movies. My roommate bought this movie and then I watched it with him. And we both like it. In fact we were both rofling while watching and saying, "Kya Bakwaas Chal Raha Hain".

We were involved so much that only at the last scene we realized that the movie theme is copied from rat race. I again watched the movie after one month back at my home.

Yes, the movie is full of stupid unrealistic scenarios and characters. The movie is also copied from not one but multiple Hollywood films. But the touch that they have given from Indian audience and the decent acting from lead characters made this movie worth watching. Even though all the jokes are very old age, due to the way they are presented and the way they occur we want to laugh at them.

When the movie has many characters normally we see that character building itself takes a lot of time and then each character did not get enough scope on screen. But fortunately in this movie each one gets its share time to develop and present themselves. Due to this there is restriction on scope of each character and hence the actors doing those do not have any problems performing them. That is why even without any big names behind (except Sanjay Dutt) the movie has done some good at box office.

The movie is flows with constant pace. Nowhere we find it going slow (except for the plane scene may be) or going fast. Also absence of songs I will treat as a positive point.

The other important aspect is not having any female actor. In todays Bollywood era, where an item song is a must in a movie doing such a daring is admirable.

This is the kind of you will like to watch and forget, but if you get another chance you will watch it again. At least I will.