{"id":6231,"date":"2015-02-02T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:14:27","slug":"movie-review-dolly-ki-doli-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2015\/02\/movie-review-dolly-ki-doli-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : Dolly ki Doli (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rating : Below average (2\/5)
\nGenre : Drama
\nYear : 2014
\nRunning time : 1 hours 40 minutes
\nDirector : Abhishek Dogra
\nCast : Sonam Kapoor, Rajkumar Rao, Pulkit Samrat, Archana Puran Singh
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Dolly ki Doli is a movie which isn’t very good and it’s not so bad. I was very disappointed by it; I was expecting so much more.<\/p>\n

If you have watched the trailer<\/a>, you know that Dolly (Kapoor) and her gang dupe young men and their families into marriage and then make off with the families’ wealth. While she dupes a number of such men, we get to see two of these incidents up-close. The first is of Haryanvi farmer Sonu Sehrawat(Rao) and the second is of city boy Manjot (Varun Sharma), and both men are smitten with the lovely Dolly. There is also a third wheel – Inspector Robin Singh (Samrat) who is brought in to catch the “Looteri Dulhan”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This movie is an Arbaaz Khan production, but feels like some low-budget, almost C grade film by a newbie director who’s managed to rope in 1 big star. Khan also produced Dabangg<\/a>\u00a0(1 & 2) and generally his work has decent production values. But Dolly ki Doli has poor production values, and is very underwhelming. The film has a very whimsical plot, as in no one has though too much about it – not the writer, not the producer and not the director. The characters display little intelligence, conviction or understanding of why they do what they do – they just seem to do it. The movie has a lackluster cast, and songs I will not remember. The screenplay is laggardly; there is only so much repetitive match-making I can take.<\/p>\n

Sonam is the only star here, and while she looks beautiful, she cannot quite carry a film on her own. I often get into mini-arguments with people over whether Sonam can act. I say she can, and I point them to Delhi-6<\/a>. With this film though, I stand defenceless, because Kapoor has made such a hash of it; she waltzes through the film, snug in her own privileged Manish Malhotra-clad cocoon, impervious to all demands of acting. Rajkumar Rao as Sonu Sehrawat is entertaining to watch, because he is a very fine actor. I can’t say the same for Varun Sharma; I wouldn’t quite care to watch him on screen ever again. Then there is Pulkit Samrat, who did well in Fukrey<\/a>, but isn’t very impressive here.<\/p>\n

Dolly ki Doli feels like it was shot on a small, stringent budget. What little money Khan deigns to spend, he spends on the (totally forced) item number, and on Dolly’s bridal costumes. The movie feels like a tv serial, with a very glamorous heroine. It does have a simplicity (shoe-string budget, remember?), but I wouldn’t care to pay for it at the theater. The film is being marketed as a jolly, colorful, energetic romp, but Dolly ki Doli offers nothing – no likeable characters, no love-story, no genuine emotion, no real drama and no satisfaction.<\/p>\n

I dragged my husband to this film, and now I owe him one. Let that not be your fate \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n

Kidwise<\/strong>: If you ignore Malaika Arora Khan’s suggestive item number, this film is fairly clean. But with that song, this is PG-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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