There has been a spate of multiple leads comedies lately, some worked, most didnt & almost all were equally bad. Dhamaal is actually no exception. There are bad movies , there are movies that are so bad that they are good but dhamaal is absolutely on another level of bad. And the worst part is it has got ‘watchable’ rating from almost every reviewer out there.
Indra Kumar is over , his last movie pyaare mohan was a equally horrendous effort but atleast it had some eye candy to go for. But Dhamaal falls down lower than anything he has done.
For starters the cast is odd , ritesh & ashish might pass off as slackers but arshad & javed are too over the hill for it. I am not even going to go into the development of characters part considering this is a indra kumar movie. The jokes/ gags are unfunny , old, repetitive, i mean get this how hard is it to google up a bunch of good jokes & use them in your movie. Some of the gags leave you on your seat wondering that the director actually found you stupid enough to laugh at this one. The jokes are cliched, the characters caricatures , the acting is horrendous, the plot line is terrible. There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this movie.
As for the cast, everyone is wasted inspite of having such comedic talent at hand - ritesh, arshad, asrani, javed the director fails to utlise them. Picture this , javed jaffri hardly mouths a dialogue, most of the ‘comedy’ around him is induced via music or some stupid expression. Javed jaffri is an amazingly funny guy as we have seen in his stint with channel v or boogie woogie, it is sad indeed to see such a comic genuis in such a role. Special points to ashish chowdhary who has crossed all the limits of hamming & overacting. He has been in the industry for a long long time without the slightest of success ..and this probably explains why.
This movie is absolutely unbearable unwatchable piece of third rate thrash. The only laugh you shall get out of this movie will be on yourself for watching this piece of thrash. Rather stay home and watch those comedy shows on tv which are actually better than this.
And yes it is ‘inspired’ from It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
