Dilwale sails along just fine as long as SRK and Kajol are on the screen.The lead pair is all heart. The film they are trapped in is, unfortunately, utterly soulless. Dilwale, if not outright piffle, is flat and desultory. It has two time-frames separated by 15 years and both the stories that it narrates are about lovers, warring guardians and broken hearts.While the first is action-packed and expectedly allows director Rohit Shetty to pull off a couple of exciting chase sequences, the second is a pedestrian mish-mash of multiple and incompatible elements.
The plot goes round in circles as a duo of brothers finds history repeating itself when the younger one falls in love with a girl but runs into a wall partly of his own making and partly of his elder sibling’s.
Dilwale is one of those terrible mistakes that superstars like Shah Rukh and Rohit Shetty make in the mistaken belief that they can get away with anything in the name of entertainment. For the first 20 minutes of the film’s playing time, nothing happens. Except that we get to know Shah Rukh’s character(named Raj in some parts, Kali in others, just for the record) has a terrible past and the he dotes on his kid brother.