Deshdrohi! . Review on Deshdrohi

The movie has been produced by Kamaal R Khan, who has not restricted himself to the role of the producer. Mr. Khan has written the script, the screenplay and the dialogues. If that wasn’t enough, he went ahead and played the lead role! The plot revolves around a ‘young’ man

named Rajkumar Yadav aka Raja(Kamaal Khan) who is an absolutely good for nothing fellow with an uncanny knack for screwing up whatever tasks his father (played by actor Ranjeet) gives him. One day after being beaten black and blue by his father, Raja runs off to Mumbai, where circumstances lead him to kill a lot of bad guys and corrupt policemen and politicians.

The plot focuses on the ‘anti-North Indians’ sentiment that’s been brewing in the minds of Mumbai citizens and local Maharashtrians. Sadly, the movie, instead of spreading a message of unity, only exaggerates the sad situation. Being a non-Maharashtrian myself, I would like to say that non-Maharashtrians are not treated the way it is shown in this film. The film ends with Raja killing the most corrupt politician (Played by Aman Verma), who incidentally is the leader of a North Indian political party in the film.

The film boasts of a talented cast in addition to long forgotten washed up actors like Raza Murad, Nirmal Pandey, Avtar Gill and Ranjeet to name a few, doing little cameos. The music is sinfully monotonous and reminds you of the Anu Malik dominated 90’s era. The songs are randomly thrown in. The title song sounds like a straight lift from the track “Zindagi Ban Gaye Ho Tum” from the movie *Kasoor.

Kamaal R Khan seems to have spent big bucks in getting the star cast, top Bollywood singers, and two unimpressive item numbers by ‘Rosa Catalano’ and ‘Kim Sharma’ respectively, but sadly hasn’t concentrated much on his acting skills. His face remains expressionless through most of the movie, the only exception being action sequences where his expressions look more constipated than angry. As far as dancing goes (yes our hero dances!), Mr. Khan has two (very crippled) left feet. The rest of the cast seems to be in it only for the money.

All in all, it’s a sheer waste of time, yet my prediction is that Mr. Khan despite his abysmal performance, will at-least break even, if not earn profit, with this film, because people like me are going to watch it discreetly to find out for themselves what a bad job it is, and of course, have a good laugh.

Rating (0/5)