Jan 31, 2011 01:39 AM
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Having grown up on watching bollywood movies in the front stall on first day shows of single screen, small theatres in small towns of India, watching Madhur Bhandarkar's latest offering Dil Toh Bachha Hai Ji(DTBHJ) in a similar environ after a very long gap of two decades plus was interesting. It was great to see the "common man" laughing and connecting with jokes which the multiplexers smirk at. DTBHJ is the story of three men sharing a house. Naren(Ajay Devgun) is a manager in a retail bank. Milind Kelkar(Omi Vaidya) works in a marriage bureau and is a shauqiya-tuqbandi-type- poet. Abhay (Emraan Hashmi) or Abby as he likes to be called is a gym trainer cum flirt who likes a girl a day kind of NSA relationship.Naren is going through a divorce with his wife Rituparna Sengupta and likes his secretary June(Shahzn Padmsee). Milind tries to patao an aspiring actress and RJ Gungun(Shraddha Das) and Abby is the rake who likes to enjoy life.
He finds Anushka(Tisca Chopra) a middle aged ex beauty queen, married to an older industrialist and interested in a toy boy to meet his physical and material needs. In the second half while the other two are still wooing their respective objects of attraction, Abby falls for Anushka's step daughter, Niharika(Shruti Hassan) also. The climax is on expected lines, with all three finding seeds of love in unexpected women.The movie is not too long, 130 minutes or so. It doesn't convey a message nor does it try to preach. It is a simple chapter of present day life for couples and singles at work. It does have a slice of life in that sense.
After his disastrous attempts at direction, Sanjay Chel is back to writing some good dialogues which are not intellectual but part of everyday life. The movie does elicit laughs. The actors do their bit. Ajay Devgun and Tisca impress. Shahzn makes a soft but impressive debut as a 20 something secretary who treats her boss, a buddy.Bhandarkar is known for his realistic hard hitting cinema. With Dil Toh Bachha Hai Ji, Madhur tries a bit of slapstick. He doesn't fail but he doesn't succeed uproariously either. A Nice light flick for a time pass. Much better than Dhobi Ghat.
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