Dilwale Movie Review Rating by public

Star Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol , Varun Dhawan , Kriti
Sanon, Johnny Lever , Varun Sharma, Boman Irani, Sanjay
Mishra

What’s Good :  Dilwale may prove to be an effortless
entertainer for those who go without any expectations from
it. The film never promised to be a cerebral pleaser hence, if
you go with the flow, you may even enjoy it. It shifts gears
between action, romance and comedy and guess what all
three have in common? Cars!

What’s Bad:  Bringing back the most-loved Jodi of Shah
Rukh Khan and Kajol together, the film does not accomplish
in capturing their epic romance. The comic capers start to
fall apart soon thanks to their repetitive flavor.
Loo Break: First Half Would Be A Good Time!

Watch or Not?:  For those who love to sit back and enjoy
movies, this one could entertain you. I couldn’t thoroughly
enjoy the film because of its highly predictable storyline.
Although for all Rohit Shetty fans, this is another out and
out commercial film that they would enjoy.

The story revolves around Meera (Kajol) and Raj (Shah
Rukh Khan) who belong to two Mafia families having
conflicts. Operating in Bulgaria, both Meera and Raj meet in
a chance encounter that soon leads to them falling in love.
The duo then go on a date that is corny enough, consisting
of flowers, ice-creams, dinner and a dance. But, then there
is a major twist heading our way.
Just when you think love is in the air, guns are fired, blood
is flown and soon the two lovers are forced to find separate
ways. Strangely, both Meera and Raj have younger siblings
who are oblivious of their pasts. Veer (Varun Dhawan) is
Raj’s charming younger brother where as Ishita (Kriti
Sanon) is Kajol’s younger sister.
15 years later, the ‘adhoori kahaani’ of Raj and Meera
comes back to haunt them when their siblings Veer and
Ishita fall in love with each other as they now stay in the
same town.
Raj after leaving his mafia business is now a car re-model
and garage guy where as Meera owns a shack in Goa.
(Yeah! A little far fetched how both move all the way from
Bulgaria to Goa!)
Will Raj and Meera get over their past for their siblings? Will
they rekindle their love as well is what the film further
unfolds.

Dilwale Review: Script Analysis.

What does every Rohit Shetty film have? The two Cs (Cars
and comedy). Although Dilwale is not exactly flooded with
that. In fact, I would say, with this film, Shetty moves on to
the drama much more. The film has conflict, romance and
heart-break, something you would not expect in his film.
The dialogues are chirpy and typically Sajid-Farhad but
after a point they don’t work much. Sanjay Mishra who
plays the character of Oscar gets the best comic one-liners
where he keeps rhyming his lines with brands.
The rest of the story minus its action scenes, rips off quite a
lot of stuff from Hollywood. In fact the reason I could not
enjoy Shah Rukh and Kajol’s love story is mainly because
most of their romantic scenes are blatantly copied from
films like Love Actually and P.S I Love You. If that was any
less, they even ruined my favorite How I Met Your Mother
scene where Ted takes Stella on a 5 minute date by
recreating it.
Being a concoction of all genres, Dilwale gets its dose of
Bollywood drama by getting inspiration from films like Hum
where the ‘Do Bhai’ card comes handy. In fact in one of the
scenes, the makers even try to replicate a Pyaar Ka
Punchnama monologue and it falls completely flat.
Overall, the script of Dilwale seems to have been written
after watching several family dramas and rom-coms put
together.

Dilwale Review: Star Performance

Shah Rukh Khan looks hot in his bearded avatar and for
many, that could only be the selling point of the film. He
pulls off the character of Raj with much ease and performs
exceptionally well in the action scenes where he shows a lot
of agression. He even gets a Shahenshah type entry in one
of the scenes as he walks out of a door with a dark shadow.
His extreme comfort with Kajol is quite visible in the
romantic scenes.
Kajol is back after a hiatus of five years and well, she not
just looks a little different but acts too. It seems the gap
has got the actress a little out of touch and hence in certain
scenes, she seems too artificial. Although, peculiarly when
her character has a major twist in the first half, she comes
off as extremely charged up.
Varun Dhawan may have given a breakthrough
performance with Badlapur but in Dilwale he seems to be
back in his Student Of The Year and Main Tera Hero Days.
His comic timing is good but he fails to excel in any
particular scene in the film.
Kriti Sanon is just a pretty face in Dilwale.Other than
looking Ms. Perfect she does not have much to do.
Varun Sharma as Siddhu is Varun Dhawan’s sidekick. His
comic timing is as always bang on.
Sanjay Mishra as Oscar Bhai is brilliant. It is unbelievable
how he can pull off films such as Aankhon Dekhi, Masaan
and yet do something as crazy as Dilwale.
Boman Irani as King is quite boring. The character itself is
highly unnecessary in the plot.
Mukesh Tiwari and Pankaj Tripathi do a decent job as Shah
Rukh’s sidekicks in the film.

Dilwale Review: Music, Direction

Rohit Shetty recently released a making video of the film
which showed us the nail-biting behind-the-scenes of
shooting the dangerous car sequences and I have to say,
they actually look quite brilliant in the film. Whether they are
important to the plot or not is another debate but at least
they look gripping enough.
On one hand if Rohit excels at capturing the essence of
action, he miserably fails at creating romance. Varun
Dhawan and Kriti Sanon’s chemistry is as good as invisible
in the film and when it comes to Shah Rukh and Kajol, the
lack of originality kills all the excitement. I found it strange
how Rohit managed to get Deepika and Shah Rukh look so
adorable in Chennai Express but failed to create the same
with Shah Rukh and Kajol, in spite of them having a history
of epic on-screen romance. Although I would give him credit
for giving the duo a chance to show something more than
romance and perform some vengeful scenes too like ‘Aaj
Ke Baad Mujhe Apni Shakal Mat Dikhana Meera. Jaan Le
Lunga’.
The lighting is bright for most of the scenes and a lot of
colour in each frame, be it the cars, the house all of it. I
wish the background score was better.
Amongst songs, Gerua and Janam Janam definitely stand
out. Daayre is used in the background but does not create
much impact.

Dilwale Review: The Last Word
Dilwale is not an enjoyable ride all the way. The film has its
moments and mainly it is the predictability and cliches that
kill it. One of the best scenes between Kajol and Shah Rukh
comes right at the end but its too late to save the film then.
For its half-entertainment, I am going

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars (Two and half stars)