Dil pe mat le yaar. But why not when you rehash the same old story again and again. And that too in such a short succession. Satya, Vaastav and now Dil pe mat le yaar. It is an era of short-time-span Mr first time director. The public won’t accept the same formula. And we don’t have a Bachchan to make it different each time around. Don’t we deserve something new!
Well, all’s not wrong with this black comedy. Manoj Bajpai is a simpleton from Movers-and-shaker Suman’s Bihar. He stands for honesty and rightiousness, falls in love with a journo (Tabu) and mistakes her upmarket manners as affection of a you-know-what kind.
The crude reality strikes his bare naked soul. His love-interest is making out with another guy, his friends are out to sell his innocence and he has nowhere to go. ANd absolutely everything to lose.
Guns, revenge, murders Satya style follow and a Vaastav like Don germinates who still awaits his parents’ arrival with a reverence in his undisclosed den in the land of sharks Dubai.
Manoj Bajpai is a fantastic actor but he looks somewhat uncomfortable in the masala hero’s slot. Tabu is her dependable self. Saurabh Shukla’s story has the similar airs as his Satya, the same vacuousness, eeriness, screeching reality and natural selfish humans. Vishal Bharadwaj’s music is ok. Asha Bhosle sounds terrific on the title track. The background score leaves much to be desired.
The audience’s thanda reaction to this movie is an indication to director Hansal Mehta - Dil pe mat le yaar.....