Dil Kabaddi (2008)

Colaba-based Rishi Sharma and his wife, Simi, hope their friends, Samit and Mita are pregnant when they get together, but instead they inform them that they are separating. Shocked at this ... See full summary »

Director:

Anil Senior

Writers:

Vivek Anand, Anil Senior,

Stars:

Irrfan Khan, Rahul Bose, Rahul Khanna

Cast

Credited cast:
Irrfan Khan	...	Samit
Rahul Bose	...	Rishi Sharma
Rahul Khanna	...	Veer
Konkona Sen Sharma	...	Simi
Soha Ali Khan	...	Mita
Payal Rohatgi	...	Kaya
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Saba Azaad	...	Raaga
Mohit Chauhan	...	Rajat
Deepak Dutta	...	Chirag
Arjun Mahajan	...	Zaheer
Micky Makhija	...	Sharma
Shilpa Mehta	...	Mrs. Sharma
Abhinandana Sharma	...	Juhi
R.P. Sharma	...	God Man

Storyline

Colaba-based Rishi Sharma and his wife, Simi, hope their friends, Samit and Mita are pregnant when they get together, but instead they inform them that they are separating. Shocked at this news, they attempt to figure out what went wrong. Eventually Samit moves out and lives with Kaya, an Aerobics and Yoga instructor, while Mita has an admirer in Veer, Simi's co-worker. Eventually the estranged couple find they cannot live without each other and patch-up. The foursome get together to celebrate, and this is where Rishi and Simi will find that their seemingly harmonious married life is not perfect either.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

5 December 2008 (India)

Also Known As:

Untitled Shailesh Singh Project

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 80,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Indian Film Company, Paramhans Creations & Movies n More, Studio 18

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

In an earlier film set around the similar theme of marriage, Life in a Metro, Konkona Sen Sharma was successfully paired opposite Irrfan Khan. Here the two actors have barely a couple of scenes together.

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Connections

Remake of Husbands and Wives (1992)

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Soundtracks

"Uthale Ya Phenk De"
Written by Virag Mishra
Composed by Sachin Gupta
Performed by Jaspreet Singh and Aditya Jassi
Courtesy of Sony Music India

User Reviews

Verbally, one of the boldest Hindi Movie ever.

Movies on marital issues and post marriage relationships have been made earlier too but this is an altogether different movie which is not interested in entertaining you with some good humor or some realistic sequences. But instead the director is more interested in being extensively vulgar verbally than visually. The movie moves around some confused characters who are not happy with their spouses and find other ways to satisfy themselves emotionally and physically. Loosely based on Woody Allen's "Husbands & Wives", it shows an inside view of different bedrooms and their not so amusing stories with everything about the "3 letter word" wide open as never before.

Chek out at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104466/

Debutante director Anil, sadly is not able to hold the audiences neither with his bold subject nor with its cheap dialogues at various places. In fact I should mention here that the viewer would be shocked to hear some strong & bold words coming from a 20 something girl and that too in quite disgraceful details. Just imagine a young girl talking with her professor about her recently broken relationship. And the reason she gives for the break up is that "she couldn't do it with his boyfriend due to his size". Was the director trying to make a huge breakthrough in Indian Cinema with such liberty taken or it was only for adding a shock value to the movie. The comment was quite innovatively written by the writer for a young college going girl. And that clearly showed the real intentions.

Regarding the star cast, everyone has done a good job, but once again the talented star cast is not provided with enough good scenes. There are entertaining moments but they come after long gaps. Out of all the actors the most impressive is Saba, a new comer who plays a film student to Rahul Bose and shares her private experiences with him openly. The scene where she is talking about her sexual experiences and her birthday sequence where she boldly asks Rahul for a birthday kiss are not only shocking but they are also capable of generating an awful influence over the youngsters.

Rahul Bose as a confused professor and Konkona Sen Sharma as his wife are fine. Rahul Khanna returns after a long time with an entertaining performance. Payal Rohtagi as a mindless beauty looks sexy and inviting. But out of the ladies, the best act comes from Soha Ali Khan. She is again impressive after "Mumbai Meri Jaan". And the main person, Irrfan Khan, as always is top rate. Though he is being given similar kind of roles by our film-makers but he is surely an actor to be proud of. He is the only person providing the comedy and comic element to the movie. As a sex crazy person he is too good and his bedroom sequence with his office colleague is the best sequence of the movie.

In spite of having Irrfan Khan and other well known names, the film is not able to hold you or impress the viewer with its content. It is neither a thoughtful social movie nor a good sex comedy. In fact in order to provide some fresh scenes the writer goes overboard and becomes vulgar. Especially the dialogues given to Saba, the young girl are quite debatable. If the Censors don't find these as vulgar then they must be having a very enlightening guidelines of censorship in their hands or maybe they are more strict with only visual and abusive words.

After seeing "Dil Kabaddi", I was forced to think that there is a very thin line between a good sex or adult comedy and a vulgar film. Often our directors start off with the first and end up being the second. Same is the case with "Dil Kabaddi".