Hello Dolly
Film: Dolly
Ki Doli
Cast: Sonam
Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Pulkit Samrat
Directed by:
Abhishek Dogra
Duration: 1
hr 40 mins
Rating: * *
1 / 2
There aren’t
too many films that rest on such a flimsy premise, have very little logic and
yet are pleasant, like the cool evening breeze, Dolly Ki Doli directed by
debutant Abhishek Dogra is one of those.
One of the reasons for that is the duration, at a little over an hour and a
half,
Dolly’s tale moves at a fairly reasonable pace speed without too much
extra baggage.
The plot has
similarities to Daawat-E-Ishq but while the Yashraj production got all bogged
down by with the serious nature with which it approached the subject, Dolly Ki
Doli has a smooth sailing.
The film
gets on with it right from the word go - Dolly (Sonam Kapoor) is a professional
con woman who entraps men, marries them and with the blink of an eye, she
disappears after cleaning the up the valuables of the in-laws. She has a whole
‘family’ in place as a part of her team which includes a fake father (Manoj
Joshi), mother and brother (Mohd. Zeeshan Ayub).
Sonu
(Rajkummar Rao) a sugar cane farmer from Haryana is truly madly and deeply in
love with her becomes one of her victims followed by Manjot (Varun Sharma of
Fukrey fame) who goes against his mummy’s (Archana Puran Singh) wishes to marry
her. Hot on the
trail of the gang is a cop (Pulkit Samrat) who is interested in Dolly for
professional and personal reasons.
There are
plenty of fun moments when the proceedings are lightweight and don’t take
themselves seriously. In this day and age, it is not only improbable but
impossible for a bride not to be photographed during the whole wedding
ceremony. You have to swallow this and some other oddities and once you do
that, it is quite enjoyable till it gets all serious in the climax.
Even though
the film centers around Dolly, the star of the show is Rajkummar Yadav who
steals every scene that he is present in. Varun Sharma is also spot on as far
as his character is concerned and Sonam Kapoor is likable.
For long I
have believed that our films would make for much better viewing experience if
they are restricted to two hours or under even if the script has flaws. Dolly
Ki Doli shows that the theory also works in practice.
Published in The Navhind Times on 25th January 2015
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