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| Edited By: Shakti Salgaokar |Source: DNA |Updated: Nov 21, 2013, 01:44 PM IST
Film: Double Dhamaal
Dir: Indra Kumar
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Kangana Ranaut, Mallika Sherawat, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Aashish Choudhary, Javed Jaffrey and Satish Kaushik
Rating: *1/2
Golden sheets, skimpily-dressed blondes, an expensive mansion and four playboys start off the ride that is Double Dhamaal.
Naturally, this is only a dream that is far from realisation since the foursome Adi (Warsi), Manav (Jaffrey), Roy (Deshmukh) and Boman (Choudhary) donated the booty from their last con job to an orphanage in the prequel (remember Dhamaal?).
However, Kabir Nayak (Dutt) the cop with a twist and the foursome’s old friend (not), who also lost his booty back then, now has tonnes of money, two beauties in tow — Jalebi bai aka Kamini (Sherawat) and his sister Kiya (Ranaut). He travels in a fancy car, works in a posh office and lives in a lavish home.
After unsuccessfully devising one stupid trick after another to make money without working for it, the foursome want in and are determined to become Kabir’s business partners. Of course, to get in on Kabir’s business they take their stupidity further to put up fake bhaigiri skits, hatch absolutely brain-dead plans and befriend his tyrant wife to get a 40 per cent share in the business. Enticed by a higher raise, the four bring in an investor worth Rs250 crore.
Enter Batabhai (Kaushik) a gangster in desperate need of a career makeover.
While all this while, we are struggling to find a reason to laugh with the film and not at the film, Batabhai brings the much needed comic-relief (short-lived). What the four don’t know is that Kabir is pulling a con-job on them and their dream again remains a dream.
In a bid to escape Batabhai’s wrath, the mad team lands in Macau (all the way from Mumbai on a boat!) where Kabir lives in the lap of luxury. Soon, a new plan is hatched to wreak havoc in Kabir’s life.
The protagonists who spent much of the first half doing bad impressions of Bollywood biggies, now take up multiple disguises to con the man who conned them. Warsi becomes a Sardar, Chaudhary turns into a woman with a heavy bosom that can give Kangana’s boob job an inferiority complex and Deshmukh sports an afro.
To be fair, Double Dhamaal has a few giggle-worthy moments, but you must earn these moments by lasting through endless torture tactics that Indra Kumar unleashes on you. These include mediocre gags, garish songs and Kangana Ranaut.
Indra Kumar’s recipe for dhamaal is quite simple — sexual innuendo, potshots at popular films, bad mimicry, foreign locations, a generous dose of overacting, an item song and a gora villain. And as he magnificently presents the climax of the film (which is funny in parts but overall ends up being a damp squib) he leaves you with a threat of a sequel. Spare us the horror, please?
