Marriage is a box full of surprises. You never know what comes next and
in what shape, each & everyday. Sometimes, you keep waiting for one all
your life and it never happens. But few are really the luckiest to have it
experienced the very first morning. At least, for the on-screen grooms and
their families in Abhishek Dogra’s con-comedy DOLLY KI DOLI!
A fake, cheat and single-minded bride is on loose to con filthy rich grooms.
She [Sonam Kapoor, too fragile for a con artist] makes the target fall in love
with her, marries him, drugs the whole family on her very last of the ‘first nights’
and runs away with all their shitloads of money and jewellery. In her victims,
there is Sonu Sehrawat [Rajkummar Rao] a Haryanvi flashy boy and a desperate mumma’s
boy from Delhi [Varun Sharma of FUKREY fame]. Picture this; when they meet each
other appreciating the fact that Dolly is the one married to both, Varun asks naively,
“bhai, iss hisaab se humara rishta kya hua? (Bro, what kind of relationship we
are in now?”. Giggles come with guarantee at such cases and there are many in DOLLY
KI DOLI, no doubt on that.
Based on a real chain of events and a crime-story of ‘Looteri Dulhan’ in
northern India, Abhishek Dogra’s DOLLY KI DOLI works because of the humor in
the script that comes easy like one after the other and the characters who
despite being the typical ones, charm you endlessly. Rajkummar Rao is in top
form. Watching him dancing like there’s no one to care in an item number with
Malaika, is a treat. His Haryanvi is perfectly portrayed and wins your heart by
the simplicity in the character and the sincerity in the performance. Sonam
plays Dolly with total ease yet she doesn’t look very convincing as a con
artiste. Varun is cute, indeed. He, in a sense continues his FUKREY
performance. So, if you had liked him earlier, have another slice of the same.
Pulkit Samrat as the cop after Dolly’s capture definitely had Salman Khan’s
Chulbul Pandey in DABANGG as his acting reference. Taking cues from Salman’s
dialogue, “hum yahaan ke robin hood hain”, he even possesses the name Robin.
And then, my favorite track in the film. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub [of
RAANJHANAA] plays the fake brother to Sonam’s Dolly and at one point; he
declines to play her brother anymore as he has romantic feelings for her. This alone
has so much potential in creating comedy and drama both. Alas, it wasn’t
treated well. Film’s biggest strength is the length. In its crisper than masala
papad 107 mins of total duration, film could have been a laugh-riot but it
comprises with being just an enjoyable watch; and the culprit here is the
uneven screenplay lacking the power to convince. Film hurriedly tries to
justify Dolly’s reasons to go for fake marriages after she fails in one. In today’s
times, can you imagine a courtship of more than a couple of months and there is
no ‘kiss’ happening between the two because of the stupidest of all ‘yeh sab
shaadi ke baad’ excuse? All because, we can’t show our bad girl being so bad! Black
is here not so dark. I wish writing in Bollywood gets mature soon.
At the end, DOLLY KI DOLI is an enjoyable ride you won’t regret much
after leaving theatre. Rajkummar Rao ensures most of it. It’s short
& sweet unlike Indian marriages. [2.5/5]
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