Dec 10, 2008 04:11 PM
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(Updated Dec 10, 2008 04:13 PM)
This movie is a hopeless copy of Woody Allen's Husbands And Wives. Dil Kabaddi is a hard satire on marriage and adultery. The film moves around the characters and the nature of their relationships.
Irrfan Khan and Soha Ali Khan play a couple that has decided to separate after two years of marriage. This news comes as a shock to Soha Ali Khan’s colleague & married friend Konkona SenSharma, & her beau Rahul Bose. Inspired by their friends' separation, Konkona & Rahul decide to pursue their personal desires.
Dil Kabaddi follows each of the four characters as they head out to seek happiness. Irrfan literally jumps into a sex filled affair with a not-so-witted aerobics instructor, Payal Rohatgi. Rahul Bose finds himself attracted to a young student who thinks, she has a thing to attract men much much older than herself. And Konkona is impressed by a colleague at work, Rahul Khanna, who she mistakenly hooks up Soha with.
A very minor part of the movie is enjoyable due to the candid comic on relation, sex & blatant dialogues of Irfan Khan.
Of the cast, Konkona Sensharma is portrayed as a “passive-aggressive” manipulator who is determined to achieve what she goes after. Rahul Bose’s delivery is a class in its own style. Soha Ali Khan is almost average performer. Rahul Khanna leaves a fair impression, that of a charming and vulnerable guy who always seems to get his heart broken.
But the winner from a loser movie like this isIrrfan Khan, who delivers a winning performance as the 40-year-old'born-again-virgin' who's desperate to spice up his virtually non-existent sex life with his wife. He tackles even tricky scenes with such earnestness that it's hard to keep a straight face to his often lewd behavior. Watch him in a scene shot in a lingerie store where he offends a salesgirl because of his tactless approach - he's awesome. Or the other scene in which he confesses he had a hearty laugh watching a regular Bollywood movie, something his boring wife would never have allowed him to do. Irrfan's is a crowd-pleasing performance, .
Dil Kabaddi might have been an instant entertainer if the director had tried to focus on delivering the entire package - the film is enjoyable but only in certain parts.
