Directed by : Tushar Jalota

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Abhishek Bachchan, Yami Gautam and Nimrat Kaur in 'Dasvi'

Spoilers ahead.. 


Chief Minister Ganga Ram Chaudhary (Abhishek Bachchan) of Harit Pradesh gets arrested in a school related money scam and is under the supervision of strict ladycop Jyoti Deswal (Yami Gautam) in the jail. Meanwhile, he asks his wife Bimla Devi (Nimrat Kaur) to be new CM in his absence. Ganga Ram develops a keen interest to pass 10th and starts to study hard for it, while on other side Bimla Devi has got an addiction to power not wanting Ganga Ram back again. 

There are many hiccups in the narrative, for instance the whole Bimla Devi act of getting evil wasn't fully convincing. Or how much the support Ganga Ram gets in jail from even the cop Jyoti felt little too much. Even some songs loosen out the story, which could have been done away with. Yet, I mostly found myself smiling and enjoying the movie that also delivers a message of how important education is even if you are a minister. 

The tutorial ways specially were my favs bit, how Ganga Ram learns probability, chemistry, active passive voice (everyone loves deepika was hilarious), references to Taare Zameen Par in Hindi teaching and much more. The History lesson could had avoided making Ganga Ram be part of the past events, that felt un-necessary and silly. 

Also, to see him earn 57% in the results was good, most writing team in such scenarios would go overboard as if a miracle will happen and the person would get 80% or more. The scenes involving Jyoti and other junior cop Satpal Tomar (Manu Rishi Chadha's comic timing is top level as always) were fun, specially that 'Woh loomad hai' replied with 'Aur aap sherni'. 

Happy that the film keeps the political sub-plot necessary but not the top priority, even in the end we see GangaRam is more anxious to learn about his dasvi results instead of election results. Infact, I would have liked GangaRam losing the elections, him not taking the CM seat and rather wanting to become Education Minister was still good too. 

I also enjoyed Abhishek Bachchan sort of doing 'Joker happy dance' at one moment, think it was when he told Jyoti that he will do Dasvi exams. His Haryanvi dialect is upto the mark too which actually is the case with the entire cast. Definately can add this among his good performances of career, more of a entertaining role that he did pretty well. 

Yami Gautam does a great job, very enjoyable how she treats Gangaram not above laws and then helps in his transformation which as I mentioned before goes slightly too far. 

Overall, Dasvi entertains despite some issues in the narrative, the final end result is still good and a lovely lighthearted movie to watch. 

My Rating : 7/10