Nowadays I am busy so I don’t get much time to watch movies. The only reason I watched this one was that I am a cricket fan so I thought to give this movie a try on my laptop.
Cricket is probably the biggest thing in India(after things like religion, caste etc.). Many movie makers have tried to harness the popularity cricket enjoys among the masses. The list includes famous people like Dev Anand who tried to do this by making "Awwal Number". I remember a movie named "All rounder" as well, I haven’t watched it though. After these unsuccessful attempts came "Lagaan" by Ashutosh Gowariker. The only movie that featured cricket and could enthrall audience with it. Then came movies like "Victory" and finally came "Dil Bole Hadippa".
A sort of female version of "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi". Mixed with some "Chak De India", a few rip off scenes from DDLJ and "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun". But the movie fails to create any sort of impact. First of all the plot is unrealistic, nobody was able to identify Rani Mukherji till the climax when her contact lens falls off. The premise itself is bad but the movie could have worked if the things would have been handled differently. The movie drags on sometimes and some supposedly funny scenes like Shahid Kapoor’s blackmailing of Veer to meet Veera were not funny at all. This is just one example, many funny scenes were forced in, which reduced their impact by far. The climax was again too dramatic to be true, with 40 for 9 they managed to make over 200 which is nearly impossible.
The plot is pretty simple, there is a Aman Cup played every year between two villages of India and Pakistan that are at the border. India have been losing for past 9 years so the coach Anupam Kher decides to call his son Shahid Kapur from England to lead his team to victory. Then Rani Mukherji to get selected becomes Veer Kaur and here starts the boring part.
The performances from Shahid and Rani are honest. Both have played their parts well, Rani Mukherji does goes overboard in some scenes as Veer, but probably that was the requirement of the character. Shahid Kapur justifies his role pretty well. The biggest problem lies in the treatment of these characters. Unnecessary scenes are aplenty and that drags the movie down. And when in the final match the audience are expected to get involved but alas the involvement level further goes down. In "Lagaan" audience cared about the outcome of the match, they wanted Bhuvan to win and England to lose, their was a feeling that so much is at stake and India deserved to win as they have been treated unfairly. In "Dil Bole Hadippa" its like moving mechanically. The connection with the characters is just not there. The movie is a decent attempt but lacks in connecting with the audience, in the end this is what is that matters most.
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