SPOOFING AROUND

MOVIE: Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge
CAST: Paresh Rawal, Sonu Sood, Kunal Khemu, Soha Ali Khan
DIRECTOR: Umesh Shukla




The movie begins with a brief introduction of Paresh Rawal's character, Raj Chopra, a once upon a time big producer and now a continuous ten flops owner. One of his movies is named Goli Goli Pe Likha Hai Dushman Ka Naam while the other is Barsaat Mein Tak Dhina Dhin. Then Kunal Khemu enters with a thought sequence with some Just Kiss Me item number. The number suggests that he aspires to be a hero or something. But later on no such aspiration was established by the writer. Instead they showed that he wants to be honest and wants to earn his do roti from being honest. Aryan played nicely by Sonu Sood is a star. Soha is a Bengali girl who makes her entry with a purposeful Bengali accent. Later on the director forgets that her Hindi is not good and she speaks the usual Hindi. The first half tries too hard to come up to a point and start a story.

The second half is relatively more comic as it takes you through the making of a movie called Solay se L'gaan Tak and those moments of making of this movie which involves a major role of Johnny Lever, make the best moments of the movie. Sonu Sood plays numerous number of characters and the movie proceeds spoofing Sholay, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Gadar and Lagaan. There is a laughter quotient in the end approaching parts with a relatively dumb end. The story though is a pretty fresh thought and more improvisations could have crafted a more decent movie. This is surely not a must watch, but it would not bore you this sunday. Soha Ali Khan got tagged as an actress doing meaningful cinema with Rang De Basanti, Mumbai Meri Jaan and a Bengali masterpiece Antarmahal. After flops and relatively less meaningful movies like Dil Kabaddi and this one, if she has to give an excuse to the media she would pull out the standard dialogue from the purse of heroine excuses, "I do not want to get typecast!" One major thing which I thought was why is this movie called Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge. Actually the very early promos focused on the different looks of Sonu Sood and then this title would be apt. The script seems to have changed since but the title remains the same and without a reason. Probably the reason for the title is aap iska reason Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge!