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Dil Diya Hai
Review :
'Dil Diya Hai' - mediocre
film with bizarre climax
By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service Rating:
* 1/2
Film: "Dil Diya Hai"; Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Ashmit Patel,
Geeta Basra, Mithun Chakraborty and Kittu Gidwani; Director
Aaditya Datt;
In Aaditya Datt's latest venture, the pimp is supposed to look
at his intended prey with a mixture of lust and passion. Since,
he is played by Ashmit Patel all he can manage
is a look of aloof disdain.
And all "Dil Diya Hai" can manage is a warning to parents who
take their daughters on European sojourns. Beware of the
Londonwalla "Raja Hindustani" tourist guide. He'll
first take your daughter into confidence and then sell her to
the nearest brothelwalla, who will promptly fall in love with
the intended flesh-seller and battle it out with Raja
Englishtani for the kidnapped girl's hand.
At the end of a bloodied shootout, the girl opts for the tourist
guide. But can a girl ever trust a man who sells her to a bar
brothel?
This is a question that could haunt you after watching this
mediocre and yet brave film about a man who needs money and a
girl who needs to be spanked right here right
now..
Geeta Basra as the headstrong, fun-loving and giggly tourist
lets her nose-ring and war paint do all acting. The girl focuses
all her attention on trying to look pained and
bewildered after she's kidnapped - an easy task considering what
embarrassing situations the plot creates for the debutante.
Still she looks more sinned against than sinned.
Somewhere in this road movie that takes "Dilwale Dulhania Le
Jayenge" to the pit of a psychedelic hell, Mithun Chakbraborty
and the lovely Kittu Gidwani appear as a kind
of aging Laila-Majnu in the wilderness.
Mithun strums the gentle guitar and wields a mean gun to protect
the young lovers from ruining their love.
But who protects poor Datt from making a hash albeit a
well-intended hash in this Aditya Chopra-meets-Sanjay Gupta
concoction?
Hashmi, in an author-backed role (he's there in almost frame),
is required to go through a gamut of expressions -- from grimace
to turmoil. He passes muster.
But please don't expect him to pull off a story of guilt and
redemption, a la Dilip Kumar in "Devdas" or even Rajesh Khanna
in "Aap Ki Kasam".
Yes, London and its surroundings still look fetching more so
than the actors, who sometimes look like they are pretexts for
the luscious locations.
As for the debutant leading lady, could she go easy on her
makeup?
Hearts won't melt at her predicament. But the war paint
threatens to melt under the weight of overstatement.
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