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Dulha Mil Gaya-Movie Review

Updated on: 09 January,2010 07:48 AM IST  | 
Tushar Joshi |

If Tim Burton had to make a desi version of Alice in Wonderland, then it would be as colourful and spaced out as Dulha Mil Gaya.

Dulha Mil Gaya-Movie Review

Dulha Mil Gaya
U/A. DRAMA
Dir: Mudassar Aziz
Cast: Sushmita Sen, Shah Rukh Khan, Fardeen Khan, Ishitta Sharma
*1/2


What's it about: If Tim Burton had to make a desi version of Alice in Wonderland, then it would be as colourful and spaced out as Dulha Mil Gaya. With character names resembling a 12-year-old girl's phonebook, this one starts off the new year with a whimper! Shimmer (Sushmita) suffers from a Devil Wears Prada hangover and behaves like the Anna Wintour of Trinidad and Tobago. Donsai (Fardeen) is a spoilt brat who's forced to marry a small town girl Samarpreet( Ishitta) to inherit his father's (badly painted Randhir Kapoor stuck on a frame!) fortune.

As the climax approaches or rather eludes us, Donsai has a change of heart courtesy PRG (Shah Rukh) who's happy walking the one- way street of love with shiny Shimmer! Not to forget the story keeps swinging between the exotic Caribbean islands and a Mehboob studio set of a cruise liner that transforms into a yacht when needed.


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What's hot: Lalit Pandit compose some hummable tunes in an otherwise dull soundtrack. Sush's pet dog Bozo seems to be the only actor who responds (barks) on cue to the director! Shah Rukh's entry comes at a time when the plot seems to be heading towards a comatose state. Blink and missu00a0Vikram Phadnis sprinting like an antelope in a makeover song.

What's not: There are ample WTF! moments right from the opening frame. When you have a movie with characters named Lotus, Jasmine, Valentine, Donsai, Bozo, and Shimmer, you know there's a big ass red flag ahead! It's evident the reels were stuck in the storeroom for a long time when you see Sushmita wear a flaming pink derby hat on a cruise liner, or have some really bad tight close-ups of Fardeen whose weighing scale seems to be tipping in opposite directions throughout the film. Despite the visual goof-ups and coherent flaws, the real villain of the film is the lazy and uninspired script, corny dialogues (ladkiyan ladkon mein agar koi size dekhte hain, to wo unke dil ka hai!) and ridiculous twists.

Sush falls flat playing a diva, instead she ends up looking like a caricature of herself. It's unfortunate to see such a confident, good-looking actress playing cardboard characters like these. Fardeen plays the rich kid part for the hundredth time, with the same vigour and determination! Poor Johny Lever who seemed like a tiny ray of light is forced to give deadpan expressions and act serious. Ishitta Sharma's part is wobbly but she delivers in a handful scenes in the second half. Shah Rukh Khan puts on his best dimple, and works double the charm in the sketchiest role he's ever played. Was the editor fired halfway that he let the film running close to three hours?
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What to do: Mudassar's debut looks like a Dulha wearing an old sherwani with new embroidery. The fitting still sucks, regardless of what the lacing is!



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