![]() Almost all the lines fall flat, which is disappointing, especially coming from dialogue writers like Sajid-Farhad. Yes, there are the occasional sparks, like the silent nod to the 'palat' scene from DDLJ, but those are few and far between. Not being able to capitalize on SRK-Kajol's pair just goes to show what a shoddy mess the movie is. What is most disappointing is that the hullabaloo surrounding this movie was about the coup that Shetty managed to pull off with SRK and Kajol, unquestionably Bollywood's most chemically potent pair, and yet their chemistry is almost non-existent in Dilwale. He's an absolute bore his eyes grim and his face stoic. Shah Rukh sleepwalks through this role, just like he's done in Happy New Year and Chennai Express. ![]() Her acting credentials were never in doubt, but she's saddled with such a hopeless role and cringeworthy dialogue. Kajol looks simply stunning, she's aged beautifully. Varun Dhawan has done this kind of goofy man-child role in Main Tera Hero before he's pretty much the same here. In terms of performances, there's not much to do for Kriti Sanon except for looking really pretty. Be it the step brothers with one of them being an orphan, or the painfully obvious plot twists, ones which can be seen from a mile away. In the midst of all this there are mafia bosses, a local Goan don for the villain, a sidekick (Varun Sharma, aces it) and the usual Rohit Shetty comedians thrown in for good measure. And Kaali has a brief, turbulent love-hate past with Meera (Kajol) in Bulgaria, which catches up with him later in his life. Veer's love interest is Ishita (a lovely Kriti Sanon). So we have Shah Rukh Khan playing Kaali (go figure!), a retired son of a mafia boss, who lives with his younger brother Veer (Varun Dhawan) in Goa, the setting of many of Shetty's films. It's painfully fake and hopelessly contrived an assembly-line piece of garbage that mistakes the audience for a fool. Singham Returns exposed that even further. Somewhere in the middle of Chennai Express, the jokes had dried up, the quips and the crisp dialogue had thinned, and the monotony was there to be seen. ![]() For the simple reason that he makes us laugh. We know the internet trolls and the twitterati are going to bite into the movie even before it releases. We know it's not going to make any sense. Here's the thing with Rohit Shetty movies: we know it's going to be the leave-your-brain-behind type. ![]()
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