Dhamaal (Comedy)

Director: Indra Kumar

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Asrani, Ritesh Deshmukh, Javed Jaffrey, Aashish Chowdhary

Showing in theatres near you

Kathmandu:

Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi, the perfect duo gave us one of the finest comedies in recent times and with both of them in this new movie we had doubts if the director would be able to maintain that standard they have set. But Indra Kumar has done it, and done it really well. With other actors joining them, Dhamaal gets you laughing from the first scene, right to the end. With humorous dialogues, major goof ups and funny one-liners there always is something or the other to entertain the audience throughout the movie.

Four of them, Roy (Ritesh Deshmukh), Adi (Arshad Warsi), Baman (Aashish Chowdhary) and Manav (Javed Jaffrey) manage to mess up things with their not so well planned ideas. Even the landlady of their house kicks them out. But they certainly aren’t ones to look for decent jobs with a decent earning. Emotionally black mailing and cheating people they find an easy way out. But fate has something else planned for them and luck favours them when Bose (Prem Chopra) accidentally meets them. He is on his deathbed when he lets out a secret that he has kept ten crores under a ‘W’ in Goa in a park.

But there has to be a twist, an obstacle, and that comes in the form of Inspector Kabir (Sanjay Dutt). He has spent ten years looking for Bose but finding him dead and the four guys who new the secret Bose told them gone, it means a transfer for him. Angry at the system, when he meets the guys again he joins the group and decides that the money should be shared among all of them. But as the conversation proceeds, selfishness grows strong in each of them and they start finding the fastest means to reach the spot and keep all the money for oneself.

It is this race to be the first, the challenges they face in between, and each character goes through his own share of problems that makes excellent comedy. The first half of the movie is hilarious and one may wonder if the comedy will slack in the second half, but it does not, the consistency is present. Though at times one does feel some of the scenes have been stretched more than necessary in the second half.

All the actors suit their roles perfectly. Though it’s a comedy, there isn’t any over acting, trying hard to make the audience forcibly laugh, it comes to them naturally. Sanjay Dutt however seems to have let the other actors run the show, his mere presence adding more

weight to the movie without being over-bearingly present in it. Another actor who deserves to be praised for his performance in the movie is Asrani. Javed Jaffrey playing the dumb chap has carried it off really well too.

This is a movie you shouldn’t miss. Go to the theatres and laugh your heart out.