Director: Umesh Shukla
Cast: Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Sonu Sood, Paresh Rawal
Rating: * ��
Credible comedies have become a rare species in Bollywood. Ask for one and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Silly as it may sound, Dhoondte Reh Jaoge is the story of a bunch of buffoons who set out to calculatedly make a flop film. Ironically the actual producer of this film (UTV) would have obviously started with intentions to make a hit but Dhoondte Reh Jaoge is the perfect planned recipe for a flop. Sane storylines seems to have become a thing of the past. Ask for sanity in a spoof-stuffed script and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal) is a film producer in heavy debt, thanks to his past lineup of flop films. Anand Pawar (Kunal Khemu) is a penniless chartered accountant thanks to his honesty policy. He's in love with Neha (Soha Ali Khan) who aspires to be an actress but gets no break thanks to her geeky looks.
When money matters the most, Anand teams up with Raj to produce a film. But the big plan is to ensure that the film is a flop. So they hire a tantrum-throwing actor Aryan Kapoor (Sonu Sood) and embark to make a money-losing preposition. Strangely one wonders why Raj Chopra takes all the trouble to guarantee his flop, since he anyways has been invariably facing failure in his past dozen cinematic attempts.
If the primary film Dhoondte Reh Jaoge wasn't enough of torment, the film-inside-film format makes things worse, subjecting you to more suffering through shoddy spoofs on Sholay, DDLJ, Gadar and Lagaan scripted by one muddled-up writer (Johny Lever). Sadly the pun-intended parody is hardly funny. Meanwhile there is a love triangle induced between Anand-Neha-Aryan which appears as a takeoff on the Rangeela romance but strangely that isn't supposed to be a spoof. The screenplay constantly alternates between satire and serious scenes, though the viewer remains almost unaware of the intended scene tone. Ask for the story's connect with the audience and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
The basic plot of making a flop film could have been interesting if the treatment wasn't outrageously slapstick. After a bland and boring start with shallow character conflicts, you expect things to get better when the filmmaking starts. But other than a few laughs here and there, the film indulges in loud and boisterous farce. The proceedings are absolutely contrived and manipulated and the climax is ludicrously lame. Ask for some serious effort in inducing laughs and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Sonu Sood shouldn't attempt mimicking actors as he's simply bad at it. And if one Sonu isn't bad enough, you have him in three more asinine avatars. Kunal Khemu stops stammering while thinking of money and you think of your money spent on the ticket while he starts stammering. Soha Ali Khan is wasted in an inconsequential role. Paresh Rawal and Johnny Lever repeat their regular comic acts. Ask of some compelling comic characters in this film and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
The movie ends with the bunch of buffoons contemplating of making another spoof. Try to find some audience for this film first and the answer would be Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Cast: Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Sonu Sood, Paresh Rawal
Rating: * ��
Credible comedies have become a rare species in Bollywood. Ask for one and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Silly as it may sound, Dhoondte Reh Jaoge is the story of a bunch of buffoons who set out to calculatedly make a flop film. Ironically the actual producer of this film (UTV) would have obviously started with intentions to make a hit but Dhoondte Reh Jaoge is the perfect planned recipe for a flop. Sane storylines seems to have become a thing of the past. Ask for sanity in a spoof-stuffed script and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal) is a film producer in heavy debt, thanks to his past lineup of flop films. Anand Pawar (Kunal Khemu) is a penniless chartered accountant thanks to his honesty policy. He's in love with Neha (Soha Ali Khan) who aspires to be an actress but gets no break thanks to her geeky looks.
When money matters the most, Anand teams up with Raj to produce a film. But the big plan is to ensure that the film is a flop. So they hire a tantrum-throwing actor Aryan Kapoor (Sonu Sood) and embark to make a money-losing preposition. Strangely one wonders why Raj Chopra takes all the trouble to guarantee his flop, since he anyways has been invariably facing failure in his past dozen cinematic attempts.
If the primary film Dhoondte Reh Jaoge wasn't enough of torment, the film-inside-film format makes things worse, subjecting you to more suffering through shoddy spoofs on Sholay, DDLJ, Gadar and Lagaan scripted by one muddled-up writer (Johny Lever). Sadly the pun-intended parody is hardly funny. Meanwhile there is a love triangle induced between Anand-Neha-Aryan which appears as a takeoff on the Rangeela romance but strangely that isn't supposed to be a spoof. The screenplay constantly alternates between satire and serious scenes, though the viewer remains almost unaware of the intended scene tone. Ask for the story's connect with the audience and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
The basic plot of making a flop film could have been interesting if the treatment wasn't outrageously slapstick. After a bland and boring start with shallow character conflicts, you expect things to get better when the filmmaking starts. But other than a few laughs here and there, the film indulges in loud and boisterous farce. The proceedings are absolutely contrived and manipulated and the climax is ludicrously lame. Ask for some serious effort in inducing laughs and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
Sonu Sood shouldn't attempt mimicking actors as he's simply bad at it. And if one Sonu isn't bad enough, you have him in three more asinine avatars. Kunal Khemu stops stammering while thinking of money and you think of your money spent on the ticket while he starts stammering. Soha Ali Khan is wasted in an inconsequential role. Paresh Rawal and Johnny Lever repeat their regular comic acts. Ask of some compelling comic characters in this film and the answer is Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
The movie ends with the bunch of buffoons contemplating of making another spoof. Try to find some audience for this film first and the answer would be Dhoondte Reh Jaoge.
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