{"id":643,"date":"2009-09-18T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/09\/review-dil-bole-hadippa-2.html"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:58:07","slug":"review-dil-bole-hadippa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/09\/review-dil-bole-hadippa-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Review : Dil bole hadippa"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Rating : Above average (3.5\/5)<\/b>
\nGenre<\/b> : All-in-one<\/b>
\nYear<\/b> : <\/b>2009<\/b>
\nRunning time : 2 hours 30 minutes<\/b>
\nDirector<\/b> : Anurag Singh<\/b>
\nCast : Anupam Kher, Shahid Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Rakhi Sawant, Vrajesh Hirjee, Dalip Tahil, Poonam Dhillon, Sherlyn Chopra<\/b>
\nKid rating<\/b> : PG<\/b>
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\nDIL BOLE HADIPPA (MOVIE REVIEW) : AVERAGE ENTERTAINER !<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cDil bole hadippa\u201d is predictable fare, but we already knew that, didn\u2019t we ? Seating myself in an almost packed theatre this Friday evening, I was pretty sure what I was in for. Even so, this film did better than expected, and actually surprised me with a breezy first half. The second half didn\u2019t do as well, but still left me decently entertained, which is more than I can say for all the other crap out there.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s story, as I\u2019ve said before is of a rebellious girl, Veera Kaur (Rani), in love with cricket. To make it to her local town\u2019s team she dresses up as boy, and becomes the star player of a team captained by England-returned Rohan (Shahid). Their objective ? To beat the Pakistani team and win the \u201cAman\u201d cup. The Pakistanis have won it 9 years in a row, so understandably the pressure is high.<\/p>\n

Admittedly with such a clich\u00e9d script (notwithstanding the cricket angle) Shahid and Rani have their hands tied. But inspite of that, they both do very well. Rani as a feisty Veera Kaur, and then as scrawny Sardar Veer Pratap Singh gives a great unselfconscious performance. She gets into the spirit of things, not only as exuberant Veera spouting pidgin English at Rohan, but scrambling around quite boyishly on the field as Veer. Shahid exudes affable charm, and it doesn\u2019t hurt that he dances well and can do intense scenes as well as he can comedy. While a slimmer Rani makes her almost-comeback with this film, Shahid proves he\u2019s on his way to a well-earned super-stardom.<\/p>\n

A great amount of time, to my surprise was spent on the cricketing field, either on Rohan\u2019s team\u2019s practice, or on the India-Pakistan matches. The first half of the film established the characters; there\u2019s Veera running around in Punjab ke khet, with her sidekicks Shanno (Rakhi Sawant), Hirjee, and the rest of the nautanki company. And there\u2019s Rohan brought to India by his motherland-loving father, and persuaded to train and lead the local town cricket team. Thus, while pre-intermission the film was well-paced and we are treated to some colorful, in-your-face songs, and some very tried-and-tested boy-meets-girl scenarios, the second half tried to do it all. It combined a sorta half-baked love story, with a cricket match, some very archaic Indian platitudes, and an appeal for equality for women, and came up rather thin in all quarters.<\/p>\n

While the biggest downer was the predictability, the whole pseudo-patriotic theme got pretty annoying too. It is understandable that the film plays up the India-Pakistan rivalry (this is cricket after all), but when it came down to touting the merits of Indian culture over \u201cWestern\u201d values, the dialogues sounded heavy and hollow. The film toed the Punjabi patriarchal line; the good desi woman wore salwar-kameezes (and thought dresses witch-wear) while the clingy siren wore shorts and halter tops, and for good measure seductively slathered on a sunscreen lotion in full view of the entire cricket team. And then all the whining and moaning about a woman\u2019s right to do this and that \u2013 and all the woman is ever shown doing is being at the man\u2019s mercy (even if he is the Captain of the team) \u2013 to play or sit , as his emotional state of mind sees fit.<\/p>\n

The film was bright, slick and nicely packaged. The songs were energetic, although I can\u2019t exactly recall the melodies now. The film made innumerable references to previous Yashraj hits, a practice I\u2019m getting quite sick of. I mean I\u2019m all for touting your success, but I do not need to be reminded of them in every YRF movie ! The dialogues sucked \u2013 lots of clich\u00e9s thrown in. And I didn\u2019t think that there was much chemistry between Shahid and Rani, although it looked like they tried to get the “Jab we met”<\/a> feel.<\/p>\n

Inspite of all this, why does \u201cDil bole hadippa\u201d get an above average rating ? Well, firstly because it was relatively clean. I say relatively, because there is Rakhi Sawant displaying and heaving copious amounts of cleavage. There is also Sherlyn Chopra, the resident vamp who\u2019m no-one likes, and she is heralded on screen by the in-thing these days : background music which sounds like breathy pseudo-sexy cat-calls \u2013 in her case it was a refrain of \u201cSoniya\u201d (that\u2019s her name in the film). And like every other desi masala film I\u2019ve seen, there was the subtle objectification; little snatches of on-screen time, where all you could see was a woman\u2019s bust or hip or waist. No face, and no body to go with it \u2013 just those pieces of anatomy.<\/p>\n

And secondly, for a Friday night entertainer, with a few shards of intelligence, this was a film which shone remarkably with the screen presence of two of Bollywood\u2019s brightest and most likable stars. You really don\u2019t get that too often.<\/p>\n

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