Bad Boy Review – Rediff.com
A film like Dangerous Boy being made in 2023 would have been simply as unwatchable regardless of who made it.
That Rajkumar Santoshi has, is sort of heart-breaking, sighs Deepa Gahlot.
There’s something ineffably unhappy a couple of as soon as profitable and succesful director like Rajkumar Santoshi stooping to make a movie like Dangerous Boy. The movie was fairly lengthy within the making, however not a lot that ought to appear like it belongs to a different period.
It’s the form of movie Govinda and infrequently, Mithun Chakraborty used to star in — the working class man, who attracts a rich girl, and is up towards her stern, disapproving father.
The daddy in Dangerous Boy is performed by the proficient Saswata Chatterjee, a Bengali man in a excessive authorities submit, who believes in ‘top quality and excessive normal’ in every little thing — a partly comedian determine harking back to Utpal Dutt in his films.
His daughter Rituparna (Amrin Qureshi) has to obey her father’s needs, so she attire in sedate salwar-kameez and manages ‘996 out of 1000’ in some examination although just a few days later, she is seen in faculty — which yr, what course just isn’t essential.
Like film main women of the previous, she has no profession choices.
She has to marry a person of her father’s alternative. Or, on this case, her personal alternative; research deserted with out a backward look.
The ‘boy’ in query, Raghu (Namashi Chakaborty) is the good-for-nothing son of a scrap seller (Rajesh Sharma), who has failed in his examination — which one, not essential, as a result of he’s hardly more likely to crack an expert course entrance take a look at.
On seeing Rituparna’s image within the paper, Raghu falls in love along with her, and like Munnabhai, takes the assistance of his pals to get into her faculty, impersonating a scholar from Barcelona.
Like in numerous outdated movies, he rescues her from goondas within the faculty canteen and she or he falls in love with him.
He takes her on paani-puri and pub dates, one thing her father would by no means allow, and she or he is prepared to spend her life with him.
The daddy, nevertheless, challenges Raghu to show his value by bearing the bills of his family for one month. If he succeeds, he can marry Rituparna.
The grownup daughter has no say within the matter; the lads need to resolve her destiny.
Johny Lever is dragged in from lord-knows-which decade, overacting like loopy because the black sheep Uncle Poltu, with an atrocious Bengali accent, introduced in by the daddy to eliminate Raghu. One cannot even keep in mind when Lever final raised fun on display.
Dangerous Boy is neither humorous nor emotional.
The various songs punctuating the infinite movie (simply 123 minutes, however looks like per week of Mondays) are tuneless (Himesh Reshammiya) and badly picturised.
Even when the lead pair had any star high quality, it could not shine on this movie with its archaic plot.
So outdated is it {that a} chestnut like ‘Uski chhaati pe moong dalunga‘ pops up. When was the final time one heard that one?
Mithun Chakraborty drops by to shake a leg together with his son, unrecognisable because the as soon as swish Disco Dancer.
The director, who started his profession with movies like Ghayal and Ghatak, has made romantic comedies too, together with the cult-ish Andaz Apna Apna, however a film like Dangerous Boy being made in 2023 would have been simply as unwatchable regardless of who made it. That Santoshi has, is sort of heart-breaking.
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