Jan 20, 2011 01:27 AM
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Yamla Pagla Deewana - Worth a Watch.
Few years back there were separate set of comedians who would make us laugh and laugh, but today the situation has changed a lot, the lead actors themselves want to do comedy films.
After a long time I wanted to watch the best entertaining movie in the city, the first movie came to my mind was Yamal Pagla Deewana. The main reason for watching this movie was the trio combination of Dharamendra, Sunny & Bobby Deol. Of course YPD has all the ingredients of creating hysteria amongst the movie buffs. But sometimes when the expectations are sky high even the good looks average.
Yamla Pagla Deewan, the title of the movie comes from a popular song from Dharmendra’s super hit movie Pratiggya (1975). The plot is pretty thin, it is an age old lost & found tale. In Canada Paramvir Singh (Sunny) is living happily with his Canadian wife, two kids and mother (Nafisa). Mother misses Paramvir’s father who went absconding with their younger son Gajodhar (Bobby) to lead a life of crime. Paramvir promises his mother that he will bring his dad and brother from India to Canada.
The first half slow & there is very little plot. But as the story builds up in the second half, the fun gets better. The film is filled with several laughs out loud moments. There are some dull moments, but every human emotion is perfectly demonstrated. It's got everything Comedy, romance, action & everything else one want to see in a movie. Almost all the characters part has been perfectly written out.
The movie clearly belongs to Sunny Deol. He acts well in his own way to add life to his character. He is dashing and dynamic. Sunny’s action sequences were well-paced and action packed. Dharm delivers a knock out performance. His comic timing & one liner will be received with whistles from the audience. Bobby’s performance is decent. He tries matching up to his iconic father and brother every time they appear on screen together. Dharam, Sunny & Bobby gets to do everything, comedy, fights, item numbers & few emotional scenes as well.
Debutante Kulraj Randhawa looks gorgeous but still raw as far as acting is concerned, she needs a refresher course in acting. Anupam Kher does full justice to character. Nafisa Ali is graceful & has been perfectly cast but don’t get much scope. Johny Lever is funny in a brief role. Sucheta Khanna makes a mark with her Canada crazy acts. Mukul Dev in brilliant in a tailor made role.
Director Samir Karnik has handled the Deols pretty well. He successfully manages to extract terrific performances from his lead cast & cleverly assigned each one to do what they are good at. One of the best aspects of the YPD is its casting. All the three actors seem to have been made for their respective role.
Music is average. Despite of many music directors composing the tracks for the movie, it’s only the title song which is inspired by a song from the film Pratiggya is worth listening. Item song ‘Tinku Jiya’ will definitely appeals to the front benchers. The extended romantic song just stretches the film.
Overall, YPD is not a film meant to be taken seriously. It is a funny film but I was expecting more. The story is predictable, but also seemed a little stretched at time.
