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Dhamaal is a grass root comedy movie about four goofy, useless
youngsters and a cop Kabir Nayak (Sanjay Dutt). The foolhardy
gang of four includes Roy (Riteish Deshmukh), who feels his
purpose of birth is to be the best detective. Aditya Shrivastav
(Arshad Warsi) also called Adi is the jack of none with half
knowledge, adds to the great proficiency of this half-boiled
group. His brother Manav Shrivastav (Javed Jaffery) is always
merry but unaware of the fact that he tops the list of idiots.
Last but not the least is the all time petrified Boman Contractor
(Aashish Chowdhury). His worst nightmare is his father, Nari
Contractor (Asrani).
The idea of work for this adorable gang of idiots is small
time conning. In this process they get themselves juggled
into a life threatening yet a witty and amusing situation.
The chase begins when they get involved in the murder of Bose
(Prem Chopra), a notorious criminal on whom police inspector
Kabir Nayak (Sanjay Dutt) had set eyes on. The criminal informs
the four about a hidden treasure that makes their lives even
more ecstatic. But Kabir desperate for his promotion gets
suspicious on the idiotic troop. One misfortune leads to another
and the fool hardy's get trapped into hilarious situations
that are side-splitting.
Dhamaal starts off brilliantly. The perfect execution of the
script by the director combined with the brilliant comic timing
of the actors hold the film together in the first half, which
is filled with jokes that are extremely funny. While the introduction
of the 4 characters is funny, the car break-down scene and
the chemistry between the four lead characters get the house
down. The first half sets up the atmosphere and the mood for
an even better and funnier second half.
Director Indra Kumar is back in form after the disastrous
Pyaare Mohan although he ought to have worked harder, especially
on the second half. Hats off to the director, for delivering
a comic caper without a female character. No love angle, miniskirts
and deep necked tops. This is certainly a welcome change…
The music by Adnan Sami is good.
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