Hirani’s fans are in severe shock

Danki

Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal, Boman Irani

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

At the end of this Rajkumar Hirani film, a character says: Danki It’s very easy. it’s not. In fact, the film is boring and the journey is as challenging as the life of an illegal immigrant. Surprisingly, and to his credit, Hirani tries to balance the amount of money he spends on his cast with the sensitivity with which he tells the story. So far he’s succeeded with flying colors, but this time there are too many compromises, too much theatricality, and a general lack of quality.

Hirani’s fans are in deep shock. The quality of work has significantly decreased. It is a labor-intensive product and serves little purpose.

This film has a very strong Punjabi flavour, so I miss Sunny Deol. It’s a heavy, contrived effort that’s more raucous than loud, more funny than humorous. So Hirani’s signature appears to be forged.

The film begins with a made-up old Manu (Tapsee Panu) on his deathbed escaping from a British hospital and meeting fellow older colleagues Bali (Anil Grover) and Baghu (Vikram Kochai). . A quick (read out loud) trip to Dubai. They are scheduled to meet Hadi (Shah Rukh Khan). It’s a good time to throw away the gray wolf and work on business and the past. Each has their own baggage and dreams. They are all poor but full of promise and dream of Big Ben as their final destination to turn Pound’s dreams into reality.

Your first stop will be your local IELTS training center. The usual English delves and team challenges are expanded to such an extent that you might think you’re watching “Mind Your Language” or “Zabaan Sambalke.” The movie begins to move as you wearily move past the clichéd humor. It is here that Manu and his friends meet the lovestruck Sukhi (Vicky Kaushal). His lover moves to London and is the victim of a bad marriage and domestic violence. He vows to go to London and bring his girlfriend back. This is what brought him to the training center.

The visa officer assigns different profiles to Manu, Baghu, and Bali. Their English professor is a small-town teacher, Geethu Gulati (Boman Irani), who is as bad a teacher as his students. The results are predictably dire. Only Bali makes it. Their spirit is rather strengthened by the situation. Left with no legal choice, the team decided to take Danki, a donkey ride, a canal route for illegal immigrants.

“Let’s move forward with the script,” says the director, and the story moves through predictable challenges that reflect both the human spirit and our capacity for suffering. oh yeah! Hardy, who leads the team, falls in love with Manu, needless to say. The script also features the Manu, Bali and Baghu families, adding to the loud and flirtatious Punjabi frenzy.

The cast is a mixed bag. While players like Anil Grover and Vikram Kochhar are always menacing, Boman Irani is excruciatingly loud. He’s more of a ham master than an English teacher. It’s a shame that the regular members of Hirani’s camp are so annoying and contrived. His outstanding companion is Shah Rukh Khan. Most stars are controlled by the script of Hirani’s camp, but this time Shah Rukh Khan has a kind of unscrupulous control that actually ends up undoing the film. He comes into his own in every moment of his 160-minute story. The way he looks haggard and trying to look young is reminiscent of the Joy Mukherjee-Biswajit era. Tapsee is reliable, but that’s about it.

The bright spot in the film is Vicky Kaushal’s cameo appearance. He stands alone and sane. There is a song in the movie that sums up the spirit of the audience. “Hum to loot phot gae.”