Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Dabangg proves why Salman is the greatest human entertainer in B-Town


Dabangg has unleashed a terror of fan frenzy and wolf whistles and continues to reverberate the cinemas dotting the Indian subcontinent. The effect has only reinforced the unpredictable yet so dominant, Salman Theory of Entertainment on BO.

When its all Salman affair, you never wish to know if the stuff comes reheated or refried. Forget that goes around the film, story, cinematography, whatever. Time and again this man proves why he’s still Bollywood’s baap of kitsch, a loner who is enough to boot out the top movie reigning the BO (forget his London Dreams or Main Aurr Mrs Khanna).

The movie opens up to reveal a bit about the dysfunctional childhood of Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan, thanks to his father's demise and subsequent remarriage of his mother (Dimple Kapadia) to Pandeyji (Vinod Khanna). Makhanchand or Makki (Arbaaz Khan) becomes his half brother and sows seeds of separatism at home. After 21 years, Robin hood Pandey is born. Meet this corrupt and ‘dabangg’ police officer from Lal Gunj, a small town in UP.
Whilst seen chasing some local goons, Chulbul stops at glimpse of beautiful Rajo (Sonakshi Sinha). Song follows. Rajo doesn’t wish to marry until the death of her father and Salman says he wish her dad hit Parlok at the earliest. Golly, he does. Due to some indifference with his half brother Makki, Chulbul vows that his marriage will be held before his younger brother. For this, he brings his khaki colleagues on Makki’s wedding day and easily hijacks the mandap and other accompaniment meant for the couple and weds Rajo. The USP in the film are the insane, larger-than-life and seriously comic dialogue of Chulbul. Watch him ask pundit ji whilst seated in the mandap, "Kshma ke jiye pandit ji, thodi si walking kar le?"
Cheddi Singh (Sonu Sood) is the spoilt antagonist in the film and home-breaker of Chulbul’s family. Its about at the end Makki realizes he has been used, he apologizes and teams up with Chulbul.

Watch Dabangg For –
The charm of a reckless Salman Khan that has apparently reappeared after a long break. Well guys, here is it. Salman Khan is back with a bang. Dabangg is a serious Chulbul Pandey affair. Watch him shake his pelvis, spurt out craziest dialogues ever in his signature carefully careless manner and the starry charisma he has whilst emoting drama on screen, its lovely. We loved this man’s fake moustache and his Ray Ban glasses pushed on to the back collar to let us await his next dialogue "taki mujhe aage aur peeche ka dikhe". The fight scenes offer you a heady potion of the Matrix sequence in Main Hoon Na, the quintessential southern influence (Rajni), Jackie Chan and The Hulk.
The beautiful Sonakshi Sinha truly deserves a mention here and does her part so well as a rustic belle and later as Mrs. Pandey.

Music. Needless to say, if you guys had enough of Salman, savour some great melodies by Sajid-Wajid. Munni Badnam Hui/Zandu Baam by Lalit Pandey may top the charts and get good press, but seriously there is nothing earth shattering than to watch Malaika Arora khan hopelessly ape Bipasha Basu in the song Namak Isque Ka from Omkaara.

Though it is not worth two thumbs, watching the 'Dabangg' Robin hood Pandey from UP was largely paisa-vasool for me. "Complete entertainment...."

3 comments:

vijithBK said...

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Uthara Nair said...

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Unknown said...

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