What does a sports movie have? a underdog team, a coach, some training sessions, action on
the field and the team winning all the matches in the end . is it too hard to get this right? if you
feel no check out UTV latest offering from directed by vivek agnihotri Dhan Dhana dhan goal( wonder
why its not called only GOAL). Actually dhan
dhana dhan goal comes after critical and commercial successs of chak de and thus
comparison is unevitable but also coz some scenes in both the films looks same
(may be vivwk agnihotri shooted after seeing CDI).
Goal is about a football club southhalll united a club which
has not won a match in 25 years( wonder how coz acc. To them they enter finals
in 85 and currently its 2007 so at max. It could be 22 years) and are nto able
to pay the leaze amount for 8 years . so the bank gives them a notice to pay 3
million dollars or they will take the club . how to get this money? by
winning a championship which has exact prize money required to pay off leaze. Add
to this some love story, anti-racism dialogues mostly jingoistic and some funny shouting scenes and climaz which I was laughing throught due to
its comic ness.
So where does goal falter?(sorry if people find I am
comparing too much with chak de but I have to to prove why goal don’t work)
1.
Here the people playing footballers never look
like footballers . they look more like someone playing old-age football . guess
what in first training session they cannot even run for 12 mins. This also proves how imp was the casting in
chak de india.
2.
People in
the film constantly talk about racism but they themselves get involved in it by
constantly telling them goras . wait they curse john as he sings for a higher
football club which is run by English . while if they really cared for john
they would get happy on seeing him progressing .
3.
This film deviates too many times to other
things than sports and thus it doesn’t work.
4.
Boman irani as coach is strictly no no . watch
his speech in the end and see how much uninterested he is in the film.
5.
Not to forget melodrama in the film which is
like a ekta kapoor serial(the scenes have to be scened to be believed)
6.
In early matches they are made to loose in so
terrible way(even in chak de that happened but it didn’t look funny at all ) and
they give such stupid goals I seriously thought there is nothing wrong in
people laughing at them add to it after each goal players get into a fight.
Now let me tell you climax here a cross
comes john dives and goal keeper dives too but just look at his expression it
was like they were palying WWE and both were diving to fight in air . actually
this is a scene which reminded me of the mind it scene from oso .
Coming to performances don’t know why
people were projecting this as john movie its a Arshad movie all around and he
performs well but runs like a bull dozer on field .
John is the only one who looks a player and
performs well on field but his acting in other part sucks.
Bipasha had nothing to do then shout sunny
and giggle.
Why chak de worked was it never deviates
from the main point, the actors looks like real players had a Indian flavour
and some awesome dialogues and good Background score . take opposite of it and
you get goal .
Any highs yes Manchester united stadium
looks awesome on big screen . I hope once to see there match in a big screen .
really it looked huge.
Rating – 2.5/10