Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) is not your typical ‘Madhur Bhandarkar’ movie. No, it’s not devoid of cardboard cutouts dressed up as characters, insensitive representations, cheap jokes, or jarring background scores that threaten to rip your eardrums every time something dramatic needs to be conveyed; DTBHJ is a fully loaded Bhandarkar movie and yet it’s different because we finally have a Madhur Bhandarkar movie that won’t win any national awards.
Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) Plot
Following its motto ‘Love grows, men don’t’, DTBHJ is about three men who believe they have found the love of their boring lives, but since life is not a bed of roses, our boys will learn that true love will come to them , but only at the end of the movie. In his late 30s and recently divorced, Naren (Ajay Devgn) returns to his parents’ house and takes paying guests in the form of Abhay or Aby (Emraan Hashmi), a local lottery of a gym instructor who puts everything to bed. that moves and Milind (Omi Vaidya), a proud virgin who believes in saving herself for that perfect woman and that perfect night. The bored trio ends up meeting the objects of their affections: a young secretary, June Pinto (Shazahn Padamsee), a trophy wife Anushka Narang (Tisca Chopra, stunning!) And an RJ who desperately wants to become an actor Gungun (Shraddha Das) and pass by the movements of love. Naren struggles to fit into 22-year-old June’s circle of friends, Aby receives treats from sweet mom Anushka but ends up falling in love with her stepdaughter Nikki (Shruti Hassan), and Milind is very happy to run to the dry cleaner while Gungun uses it. for everything from buying drinks in a pub to clicking on a new portfolio. After much deliberation, the three centimeters are closer to winning over their women, but things don’t go as planned and in the end the three of them run dry only to run into the true ‘true’ loves of their lives.
DTBHJ ushers in a Bandarkar v 2.0 simply because this is not a sad story that the multi-national award-winning director has long been associated with. This is a bright, happy movie, and thanks to Priya Suhas’ decent production design and Ravi Walia’s careful camera work, DTBHJ even manages to look up at the market. And yet DTBHJ is as vulgar as most of Bhandarkar’s films end up being.
Piltfalls in Dil a Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ)
Filled with rude jokes about homosexuality, aging, caricatured depictions of just about everyone, and insensitive things like a stray dog named Kasab, since the stray dog was found at the VT station and is a horror, DTBHJ can be funny in some places , but overall it is. pretty tasteless. Like most Bhandarkar films, DTBHJ features characters as flat as a three-day queue, shoddy writing with lots of expository dialogue containing the full story of some other film, and rather strange characterizations – a Radio Jockey that broke like hell, a business tycoon who seems like a lost child, a grandmother from Goa who talks like a cheap gangster, etc.
Many actors believe that a role in a Madhur Bhandarkar movie suddenly puts you in a different league, and while this is not a “typical” Bhandarkar movie, no one takes their job seriously. Don’t blame them for how different you can play a Hindi movie playboy or how challenging it can be to play a business mogul who says nonsense like ‘There’s an economic forum in Geneva … we must go there together … we’ll all go, great we’ll go next week ‘without even bothering to take the mandatory’ dramatic ‘breaks?
Actors and their performance in Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ)
Devgn makes a decent effort and is even fun to watch in places, but Hashmi, a victim of her own ‘serial kisser’ image, looks like a buffoon who rolls her eyes and smiles her mischievous grin. Omi Vaidya’s strange accent was maybe funny in 3 Idiots, but here it is annoying and so is the poor poetry with which it bores us. Even if Bhandarkar reserves his most insensitive jokes for women in his films, they always have a greater presence in them, but here, except for Tisca Chopra, who looks better than everyone else put together, no one else leaves a mark. Das is in bad shape, but Padamsee and Hassan are passable. When it comes to acting, my pick of the ladies was Naren’s lawyer, a character named Sunanda Pradhan; hilarious to say the least.
Bhandarkar wastes a lot of screen time with absolutely insane actions and halfway through the movie, just when you think what the heck DTBHJ is all about, he introduces Nikki and makes Aby fall in love with her in a desperate attempt to instill something. similar to a story. Towards the end, Bhandarkar sums it up conveniently as if he’s in speed mode or maybe the movie’s release date is staring him in the face. There are some funny moments and DTBHJ might be Bhandarkar’s idea for a funny movie, but you know sometimes the two just don’t meet.
Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) Rating: 2.5 / 5
Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) Genre: Romance / Comedy
Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) Cast: Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Omi Vaidya, Shazahn Padamsee, Shraddha Das, Shruti Haasan, Tisca Chopra
Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Dil To Baccha Hai Ji (DTBHJ) Music: Pritam