I had hopes from ‘Diwale’, essentially because I had enjoyed, for the most part, the previous Shah Rukh Khan-Rohit Shetty combine. ‘Chennai Express’ had a tweaked Rohit Shetty sensibility(we’ll take you to south India, and have characters yak away in Tamil minus translation, and if you don’t understand, too bad) and SRK’s ability to send himself up, and delivered some amount of fresh fun.
This time around Shah Rukh shares space with Varun Dhawan who, in turn has a romantic track with Kriti Sanon, and a bumbling best friend track with Varun Sharma: SRK’s track with old flame Kajol, which is meant to be the film’s mainstay, keeps coming and going. And the other bit parts come and go, too, pretty much on a whim. It’s almost as if someone says, now let’s bung in a comic track, and out tumble Johnny Lever as a car thief, and Sanjay Misra as a pony-tailed receiver of stolen cars, and Boman Irani as a pink-jacketed mobster with a love of vintage cars.
Yes, cars do play a big part here, as they do in most Shetty films. And yes, a couple blow up most satisfactorily.
Dilwale is a good FAMILY movie. There is Action(with many cars and shooting); for the first time you see Kajol do some action herself(with cars and fights) which was very, very cool! There are two nice love stories(one is very curious, passionate, and intense that develops over a span of time). The intensity of Shahrukh Khan is really nice in this movie(in both action and romance) and the passion and expressiveness of Kajol(in both the softer scenes and the more intense scenes) is beautiful throughout. And the other love story is a light-hearted playful, love that is performed well by Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon. If you have children, you should definitely see this movie because it is quite entertaining, clean, and fun to watch.
all in all a nice comedy.