Directed by : Shaad Ali
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3380264/
Poor cliche gangster story, avoidable movie. Shaad disappoints.
Read at your own risk, spoilers ahead…
It was a movie I had great expectations from, the day its cast was announced with Shaad as director, S-E-L & Gulzar teaming up (same as Jhoom Barabar Jhoom), and a fantastic 1st trailer, followed by 1st song promo of title which was peppy and addictive.. but after that all went downside with poor promos and the real picture got revealed, not everything that appears good initially is actually good.
Two gangsters, Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar) work for Bhaiyya Ji (Govinda) who raised them in their childhood and gave them guns to play with instead of reading books. They now kill or scare anyone Bhaiyya Ji wants them to. Enters Disha (Parineeti Chopra) into the story, Dev falls in love and now he has to choose between his love or the life he has been living till now.
This is such a cliche story. Why do we have to see a gangster film where the gangster has to be forced to stop doing the bad work he is in which he loves a lot. Funny thing is Disha is shown as a person who works on criminal history people and make them live good life instead. In the entire movie she is never seen helping anyone, what we see instead is her rich spoilt girl life, her swimming scenes or going for parties. And still if we agree that Disha does actually do the ‘samaaj seva’, then why the hell she decides to give up on Dev when Bhaiyya Ji tells her who Dev was once i.e a killer, and who Dev is now i.e. a improved guy. If she improves criminals, then here was a person who did it by himself for her and yet we see Disha abandon him and do all the un-necessary emotional drama. Why was the need for Dev to record a video and tell her the truth, does Shaad Ali wanted to say that how dumb this girl was ? I just hated Parineeti Chopra in this movie, for a change sadly.
The other sad part of this movie was the screenplay. Shaad Ali it looks like forgot how to form a narration, we see characters all of sudden killing, then joking, then the terrific ka ka ka kill dil bg used unnecessarily in worst possible manner. Infact, they end Bhaiyya Ji character also so lamely. Also, we never see any police activity in the movie, its like these gangsters never ever get to face them.. they are too smart or stupid writing, eh? And what was that scene where Dev tries to show his good side to Disha by asking small kids to eat food with them.
There are some good dialogues in the movie, one of it that standsout is BhaiyyaJi telling a person who has got gun on his head ‘Goli maarni hai toh maar-de, yun ghoor ke mera time waste mat kar’.
Best part of movie was, Tutu’s friendship towards Dev, firstly when he shows concern towards Dev asking him to remember who he is and who Disha is plus that they work for Bhaiyya Ji. Then the scene where Dev tells him that he thought Tutu would understand him atleast. Or when Tutu tells how he will manage Bhaiyya Ji on his own now. Ali Zafar did a fairly good job, of course could had been much better if the script had been well written.
Ranveer Singh is full of energy, and very lovable once again.. The entire scene where he meets Disha for first time, talks while she rides bullet or his touching the hot sizzler food with hands directly. And the funniest scene of course, when he asks Tutu, what is meaning of Lol. Wish Shaad didn’t overdo it with Rofl though..
Govinda in a villain role, is something you don’t really expect from him but right from trailer it looked he had perfectly nailed it. Unfortunately though, he gets very few scenes to shine, once again for bad writing. Two scenes to watch out would be, one where he forces his orders onto Dev, and other when he plays a great chess move with Dev’s life. He does gets most of the best lines in movie though.
S-E-L music is decent. The title song stands out, but not used the way it should had been in movie. Love the way they film the 'Daiyya Maiyya' song. ‘Sajde' is totally misplaced fantasy song in the narrative, would had made for a better end credit song instead. If I remember right, they didnt use 'Baawra' ? It was 2nd best song of movie for me.
Kill Dil ends up as my first Shaad Ali movie that I disliked. There’s no emotional connect, a cliche gangster story and narrative that looks like arranged together with bits and pieces without much meaning or style quotient. Its only the performances of all 3 male leads that keeps you hold on to the end in a movie that you can easily avoid watching.
Verdict : 2/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3380264/
Poor cliche gangster story, avoidable movie. Shaad disappoints.
Read at your own risk, spoilers ahead…
It was a movie I had great expectations from, the day its cast was announced with Shaad as director, S-E-L & Gulzar teaming up (same as Jhoom Barabar Jhoom), and a fantastic 1st trailer, followed by 1st song promo of title which was peppy and addictive.. but after that all went downside with poor promos and the real picture got revealed, not everything that appears good initially is actually good.
Two gangsters, Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar) work for Bhaiyya Ji (Govinda) who raised them in their childhood and gave them guns to play with instead of reading books. They now kill or scare anyone Bhaiyya Ji wants them to. Enters Disha (Parineeti Chopra) into the story, Dev falls in love and now he has to choose between his love or the life he has been living till now.
This is such a cliche story. Why do we have to see a gangster film where the gangster has to be forced to stop doing the bad work he is in which he loves a lot. Funny thing is Disha is shown as a person who works on criminal history people and make them live good life instead. In the entire movie she is never seen helping anyone, what we see instead is her rich spoilt girl life, her swimming scenes or going for parties. And still if we agree that Disha does actually do the ‘samaaj seva’, then why the hell she decides to give up on Dev when Bhaiyya Ji tells her who Dev was once i.e a killer, and who Dev is now i.e. a improved guy. If she improves criminals, then here was a person who did it by himself for her and yet we see Disha abandon him and do all the un-necessary emotional drama. Why was the need for Dev to record a video and tell her the truth, does Shaad Ali wanted to say that how dumb this girl was ? I just hated Parineeti Chopra in this movie, for a change sadly.
The other sad part of this movie was the screenplay. Shaad Ali it looks like forgot how to form a narration, we see characters all of sudden killing, then joking, then the terrific ka ka ka kill dil bg used unnecessarily in worst possible manner. Infact, they end Bhaiyya Ji character also so lamely. Also, we never see any police activity in the movie, its like these gangsters never ever get to face them.. they are too smart or stupid writing, eh? And what was that scene where Dev tries to show his good side to Disha by asking small kids to eat food with them.
There are some good dialogues in the movie, one of it that standsout is BhaiyyaJi telling a person who has got gun on his head ‘Goli maarni hai toh maar-de, yun ghoor ke mera time waste mat kar’.
Best part of movie was, Tutu’s friendship towards Dev, firstly when he shows concern towards Dev asking him to remember who he is and who Disha is plus that they work for Bhaiyya Ji. Then the scene where Dev tells him that he thought Tutu would understand him atleast. Or when Tutu tells how he will manage Bhaiyya Ji on his own now. Ali Zafar did a fairly good job, of course could had been much better if the script had been well written.
Ranveer Singh is full of energy, and very lovable once again.. The entire scene where he meets Disha for first time, talks while she rides bullet or his touching the hot sizzler food with hands directly. And the funniest scene of course, when he asks Tutu, what is meaning of Lol. Wish Shaad didn’t overdo it with Rofl though..
Govinda in a villain role, is something you don’t really expect from him but right from trailer it looked he had perfectly nailed it. Unfortunately though, he gets very few scenes to shine, once again for bad writing. Two scenes to watch out would be, one where he forces his orders onto Dev, and other when he plays a great chess move with Dev’s life. He does gets most of the best lines in movie though.
S-E-L music is decent. The title song stands out, but not used the way it should had been in movie. Love the way they film the 'Daiyya Maiyya' song. ‘Sajde' is totally misplaced fantasy song in the narrative, would had made for a better end credit song instead. If I remember right, they didnt use 'Baawra' ? It was 2nd best song of movie for me.
Kill Dil ends up as my first Shaad Ali movie that I disliked. There’s no emotional connect, a cliche gangster story and narrative that looks like arranged together with bits and pieces without much meaning or style quotient. Its only the performances of all 3 male leads that keeps you hold on to the end in a movie that you can easily avoid watching.
Verdict : 2/5
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