Deceived? Hoodwinked rather!. Review on Deewangee

NO!!!!! Why me???? The promos promised a taut, chilling, suspense thriller and I walked right into Deewangee expecting the same. But were the wishes of humanity ever fulfilled?

Look what’s served here:

1. A hardened criminal/music teacher (Ajay sulk-in-the-name-of-acting Devgan) claims to have learnt the ins and outs of clinical psychology and criminal law as a child by whiling time reading books in a village library where he was employed as a sweeper. So he wilfuly switches between split personas feigning selective amnesia, as an excuse for his murderous mayhem.

   
   




2. A psychiatrist (Seema hilarious Biswas) not only misdiagnoses, but also conducts herself as if she is the next best thing to have happened after ‘Rendezvous with Simi Garewal’.

   
   




3. A lawyer (Akshay wig Khanna) wins Split Devgan’s case then wants to lose it again after realizing that Mr. Split is after all not Split.

   
   




4. The courts, populated by a constipated judge (Suhasini Mulay), and stiff neck prosecutor (Suresh OhBOREoi), declare Ajay a spilt personality on observing contrasting behavioral displays during proceedings, without as much asking for clinical proof.

   
   




5. Doctors in a ‘Mental Hospital’ (the movie’s term, not mine) have no mind of their own. They are advised by the lawyer Wig Khanna on the line of treatment to be undertaken for Split Devgan. Later even Split Devgan advises them on therapy methods they should employ. Both suggestions are readily accepted.

   
   




6. A mockery of law, police force, press, medical profession. So what’s new, its there in every other movie, but that went away with the 90’s didn’t it. Thereafter movies did seem to have some semblance of sense. Deewangee takes movies back to square one.

   
   




7. Intermittently, as things proceed, Urmila Matondkar whimpers, simpers, bats eyelids, juggles eyebrows, pouts, shrieks, sways, but doesn't act.

   
   




8. A director (Anees Bazmee) with a not so illustrious resume making a shoddy rehash of Primal Fear (which wasn’t great shakes in the first place)

   
   




9. Songs that go

   
   

Dholi bajaa le dhol,

Tere ishq ki khul gayi Pole

Someone please explain!

It’s Ismail Darbar unstrung

1. To top it all theres Mr Wig's mother on the lookout for a bride for him. (Run! Hide!! Its Farida syrup Jalal)

Please be fore-warned and stay away. The byline says ‘You will be deceived’ but you end up getting hoodwinked.