Dhol (Movie Review)

Its not a  surprise any more as the biggest comic extravenza is out at running in theatres as four men are playing the dhol real loud of it are making every one laugh even louder,but the movie did’nt seems to be a typical Priyadarshan’s movie anyhow…..Starring Tusshar Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Khemu, Rajpal Yadav, Tanushree Dutta, Om Puri, Arbaaz Khan.Directed by PriyadarshanPriyadarshan’s comedies have gone from worse (Malamaal Weekly,) to worst (Bhagam Bhaag) …to indescribably putrid and unpalatable in his latest all-boys-no-brains comedy about four guys with a chronic nervous twitch who have nothing better to do than run across a self-consciously-created studio suburbia and ogle at fat legs in short skirts in an stretched-out skit.

Priyadarshan’s comedies have gone from worse (Malamaal Weekly,) to worst (Bhagam Bhaag) …to indescribably putrid and unpalatable in his latest all-boys-no-brains comedy about four guys with a chronic nervous twitch who have nothing better to do than run across a self-consciously-created studio suburbia and ogle at fat legs in short skirts in an stretched-out skit.Priyan’s comedies have a distinctly accentuated ambience…junior artistes were over pretending to be casual in crowded street scenes. But bustle is as real as contestants in a reality show pretending to be camera-oblivious.It seems that functionalism derived not from the desire to reate real life but to manufacture a farcical facsimile of life’s most uninspiring moments.

Priyadarshan has somewhere lost the plot.The narrative in Dhol picked up the gags from stand-up comedies and nautanki performances in the open fields of South Indian villages where anything goes.The idle chatter of the café culture in a small town is created with some care for the conventions of a narrative pattern, and full marks to Priyadarshan’s steady art director Sabu Cyril for getting that right.
The film opens with a Patel music video as Arbaaz Khan tries to act mysterious and macho….Cut to the four slothful heroes and their shrill landlady (gosh, didn’t we see this quarrelsome quintet in the far-more-palatable Dhamaal two weeks ago???). …Tanushree’s wardrobe and makeup smack of casual ‘grease’. Elegance and understatement in words and wardrobe are a primary casualty in Dhol and its clamorous ilk of comedies. Somewhere towards the end, the film’s title is runbustiously recalled.

Villain Murli Sharma starts stalking Tanushree and Payal Rohatgi to retrieve a dhol filled with money.No wonder Pritam’s music comes out sounding so stilted! orrowing a mean streak from the Cartoon Network the villains slap and pound the intellectually-challenged heroes to a pulp. Poor Om Puri and his screen-wife Farida Dadi who also get slapped around. But that’s the least of their worries . Movie demands most talented actors to work more seriously besides seeing the talented actors getting brain-dead.