Wednesday, October 19, 2011

RASCALS (HINDI MOVIE) REVIEW




Rascals is an Bollywood action comedy film, directed by David Dhawan and produced by Sanjay Dutt, Sanjay Ahluwalia and Vinay Choksey. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Kangana Ranaut and Arjun Rampal in lead roles, and is distributed under the Sanjay Dutt Productions Pvt. Ltd. and M/s Rupali Aum Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. banners. It was presented by Bharat Shah. The film released on 6 October, 2011 to mostly mixed reviews. 
‘Rascals’ is a comedy about the joys of conning where Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn play two cool competing conmen trying to out-scheme each other in consistently amusing and surprising setups. 
But when both fall for the same girl (Kangna), the competition reaches an all new level as both men constantly attempt to outwit each other to win over the surprisingly elusive Kangna! 
Since much of the comedy involves people taking advantage of one another, having everything put forward in such a gossamer manner that ‘Rascals’ becomes an enjoyable journey throughout with an interesting twist at the end!

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Sanjay Dutt Productions Pvt. Ltd
M/s Rupali Aum Entertainment Pvt.Ltd

Shooting Studios
Mehboob Studio

Producer
Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Ahluwalia
Vinay Choksey

Executive Producer / Co-Producer
Dharam Uberoi
Sanjiv Ahluwalia

Director
David Dhawan

Star Cast
Sanjay Dutt...... Chetan
Ajay Devgn...... Bhagat
Arjun Rampal
Kangna Ranaut
Chunky Pandey
Satish Kaushik
Lisa Haydon
Hiten Paintal
Mushtaq Khan

Cassettes and CD's on
Venus Records & Tapes

Singers
Daler Mehndi
Neeraj Pathak
Vishal Dadlani
Sunidhi Chauhan

Music Director
Vishal Dadlani
Shekhar Ravjiani

Background Music
Atul Raninga
Sanjay Wandrekar

Cinematography
Vikas Sivaraman

Choreography
Bosco Martis
Caesar Gonsalves

Action
Mahendra Varma

Art
Shailesh Mahadik

Editor
Nitin Rokade

Screenplay
Yunus Sajawal

Sound
Kunal Mehta
Parikshit Lalwani

Dialogue
Sanjay Chhel

Costume
Navin Shetty
Anna Singh
Aki Narula

Media Relations
Parag Desai
Universal Communications

Promos
Binni Padda
Ravi Padda

Publicity Designs
Rahul Nanda


REVIEW:

At some point in this pointless parody of all of David Dhawan's Tom and Jerry comedies from the past, Devgn and Dutt, playing a pair of warring, snaping, snarling, sneering con-persons, call for each other. 'Chetan? Bhagat? Chetan? Bhagat? …."

In that pause between the last blast and the next you know the script writer (Yunuz Sajawal) is thinking of how to carry the plot to the next gag.

Wish they had actually roped in author Chetan Bhagat to write some of the episodes. We would at least be looking at more than just an endless raunchy wordy ramble into the realm of toned bikini bodies. And these include the two leading ladies Kangna Ranaut and the striking Lisa Haydon.

In fact the film looks like one long excuse to let the camera ogle at semi-nude female figures in Thailand and Bangkok. The laughter, if it was ever intended, is strictly incidental.

The gags in "Rascals" are so stale and tasteless and the situational comedy so devoid of any kind of originality or freshness, you wonder if David Dhawan just made this unfunny comedy to please his friends who play the major roles in the film.

As Chetan and Bhagat, Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn get to ham to their hearts' content. Not their fault. It's the need of the hour. Make that two hours. Two long painful hours of mirthless gags and skits adding up to no sense of hilarity.

Kangna Ranaut is the funniest thing in the film. And not in any intended way. 

But nothing matches up to the brazen insulting nature of the dialogues. At one point Chetan or Bhagat (hard to say which one speaks, as they're constantly interrupting and shouting down one another) look at a dark-skinned man and comment: "How did this black gulab jamun get a white rashogolla for a daughter?"

Go get a laugh, Mr. Dhawan. The prolific and trendsetting director has clearly run out of tricks to make the Tom and Jerry act any further. And really, Anil Kapoor-Govinda in "Deewana Mastana", Salman-Govinda in "Partner" did the sniping and snarling, so much better.

The film is carpeted with dreadfully unfunny jokes that insult every community including, of course, the movie-going community which is expected to laugh at a scene where Sanjay Dutt puts on an unconscious woman's underwear on and wonders: "Why is it so much easier to take off a woman's clothes than put it on?"

Really, Mr. Sanjay Chhel, what were you thinking when you wrote such embarrassing lines taken straight from the wall of a private toilet?

Any silver linings? Yes, Arjun Rampal. He's so cool and in control, you wonder what he is doing in such an uncool rudderless comedy. And poor Hiten Paintal. An actor with considerable comic timing, is stuck among actors who seem to be totally out of rhythm. Hiten is reduced to being Sanjay Dutt's sidekick.

Wanted urgently: A makeover for David Dhawan's brand of comedy. Seriously, this comedy is not funny.

1 comment:

  1. This film is also based on thé English film Dirty rotten Scoundrels...

    But i think film is more hilarious compare to tat...

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