The Director of the movie Desi Boyz, Rohit Dhawan, is getting married in February. Men often do that when they feel settled in life. When they feel that they have secured a successful path in their chosen career. Indeed, with Desi Boyz as his debut movie, Rohit Dhawan has every reason to feel that way!
The movie is about 2 young men caught in precarious situations in their personal lives as they lose their jobs to recession. As a permanent solution to their problems, they choose temporary jobs in an completely alternate industry. Jobs that provide the opportunity to throw in a crazy concoction of fun, drama, dance and even emotion.
In Akshay Kumar and John Abraham, the producers have chosen two genuinely handsome hunks who look the part but can deliver the goods with their comic timing as well. Surely, that Akshay has a come a long way since his days as an action hero is known to all and he is right on the money in this offering as well. John Abraham also deserves a pat on his back. He plays a cool investment banker who likes to, what else, ride a cool bike!
Paired opposite John Abraham, Deepika Padukone plays the hard-to-please girlfriend rather well. She will be happy to have this hit under her belt and she certainly deserves it! Chitrangada Singh makes a shift from parallel to commercial cinema as she essays the character of an economics professor. Not to be confused with anything remotely geeky, this real-life mother-of-one can teach a thing or two to her younger rivals.
Sanjay Dutt plays the bindaas man who drafts Akshay’s and John’s characters into their alternative careers and you probably cannot imagine anyone else playing that role. Omi Vaidya adds to the comic content as the accidental date of Deepika’s and later, the prosecution lawyer who fights the all-important case at the movie’s end.
In staying away from making the movie too cerebral, Rohit Dhawan has stayed true to his genes as the son of erstwhile comedy king, David Dhawan. At the same time, the movie is certainly not over the top by bollywood standards. If anything, there was scope for even more comedy of the genres of farce and slapstick, among others, but perhaps that would have taken away from the cool quotient, something that usually impresses a section of the college-goers and yuppies. Importantly, no sequence of scenes in the movie appears a drag and that, in itself, says a lot as sometimes, even great movies contain loosely made portions.