Yamla Pagla Deewana

This one was what I was really waiting for. After the disaster of their first movie together titled “Apne”, the Deol family probably sat down together to have a serious discussion and decided that the next time they would come together would be for a comedy. Either ways people were laughing at their first attempt. Might as well get them to laugh at what is meant to be laughed at right? The rushes were quite reasonable and I was quite keen to catch up with the movie. So after a 12 hour sleep to recover from the jet lag of spending 32 hours @ either an airport or inside an aircraft and that too without any sleep, I opened skull, left brains in freezer and proceeded towards PVR Mulund to catch an afternoon show of a completely slapstick brainless comedy. Needless to say, I wasn’t disappointed at all – I got what I had expected!!!!


Param Veer Singh Dhillon (Sunny Deol) is a family man to the core. He is married to Mary (Emma Brown) and has 2 kids. His mother, Manto (Nafisa Ali) also stays with them. No points for guessing that they all live in Vancouver, Canedda (read Canada). And if u are a sardar in Canedda, u cannot dream of having a Canadian accent. After all, you are in your 2nd home right? The entire family including the Canadian wife is uncorrupted and not influenced by anything Canadian. Even the wife speaks in Punjabi – so what if it’s a little broken. 100% believable I say. Now, Param has always wanted to go to India to visit his Des (read country - wonder why they all go to Canada if all they want to do is come back?). But Mary will not have anything to do with these dreams. He doesn’t trust India one bit.

The story goes that while Param was very young, his father, Dharam Singh Dhillon (Dharmendra) who is the only person in the world that google cannot locate, is a petty criminal back home and leaves Manto and Param at a very young age. He doesn’t leave alone thought. He carries his 2 month old son, Gajodhar (Bobby Deol – when he gets older that is) and continues his life of petty crime, relieving unsuspecting people of whatever is valuable. One of the Dhillon families friends in Canedda comes home and blows a fuse when he sees Dharam Paaji’s photograph on the wall. He has recently been duped by the father and son duo, in Benras (how many times have people been told not to travel alone to India!!!!!). Now that he knows, Param has to go to Benares to get the two back to Canedda as promised to his mother isn’t it?

Yamla Pagla Deewana, lives upto to everything it promised in the trailers. Corny dialogues such as “Tussi Bade Impotent ho ji” (You are very important) and “Aap Kaise Karte Ho Ji” (How do you do?) and most of all Jat Risky after Whiskey as the icing on the cake. Not to mention the corny background music that plays from every Bobby Deol movie even though there is a fight sequence on. After all, Jab Sunny fight kar raha ho toh Bobby romance hi karega na??? And then there are three brilliant fight sequences featuring Sunny Paaji’s Dhai Kilo ka Haath (2.5 kg fists), the first of which causes little or no damage to any surrounding furniture. Just when u begin to think that things would be different, the next sequence shows a beer bar being single handedly crashed to pulp but guess who – Sunny Paaji. Even Dharam Paaji decides to show his might in the climax sequence. And I must also say that the three on screen together has some solid chemistry. So much that they dance better than the girls in both the so called item numbers in the movie (if they can qualify to be called that). And did I mention Bobby’s love interest in the movie played by Kulraj Randhawa, who is a photographer from the Punjab and is making a coffee table book on Benaras and expects to do that with her camera always on full zoom and wearing a pair of really short shorts roaming the streets of Benares. All believable hai ji. Not to worry. Samir Karnik’s direction continues on the lines of his previous debacles. Some guys never learn. Thanks to our trio, the movie will not flop. Entertaining definitely but follow instructions about brain as mentioned earlier. I give it 4 on 10.

And if you haven’t seen the trailer, here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1wOMEDBc4&feature=fvsr