Desi Boyz

I never managed to watch Desi Boyz till a couple of days back when I caught up with it on TV. I cannot remember the channel for the life of me. But I don’t think it really matters. I was told all sorts of things about how I should avoid the movie like the plague and I should not consider watching it even if I was paid for it – amongst other heinous things.

And I guess that age old rule applied once again – If you don’t set your expectations of a movie then chances are that you may not find it that bad. I must say that I found Desi Boyz to be a movie that could be tolerated. And quite comfortably at that. Probably because I saw it without any expectations whatsoever. But there were some other factors that helped in getting my expectation so low.

I have not been much of an Akshay Kumar fan in the past few years. I strongly believe that he has lost his comic timing. If memory serves me right, the slide began with either Garam Masala and then all was lost by the time we came to CC2C. The good comedian in him has over time been replaced by someone who is quite slapstick and seems to be struggling to keep even himself humoured. Desi Boyz was probably a bit better than his recent disasters.

My expectations from John Abraham the actor have never been too high. Sincere effort always put in. Definitely lots of hard work. But I believe he can at best be eye candy and nothing more. And what candy!!! As regards Deepika, I have been a fan of the confidence and will continue to be one – despite the fact that it seems to be deteriorating over the past few movies. And Chitrangadha in this new sultry avatar was a surprise – if only the strip teaching exercise would have continued just a bit more.

Desi Boyz is a cheap effort at mimicking The Full Monty but only with 2 people and a lot of Desi Masala also thrown in which doesn’t help much. Jignesh Patel (AK) is left with the task of taking care of his sister’s son after an accident takes them away. Jignesh works in a security services company. His best friend is Nikhil Mathur (John) who is an MBA from London School of Economics (WOW!!!).

Both are hit by the “recession” and find themselves jobless. Nikhil has to take care of his girl friend Radhika’s (Deepika) utopian expectations of marriage and a family after. Jignesh has to prevent Social Security from taking away his nephew. Desperation drives them to Boss (Sanjay Dutt) who runs a high level escort service and they start making the big bucks after a lot of reluctance.

If you are willing to ignore the basic errors and cheesy dialogues that come with most movies of this kind, Desi Boyz can actually be a great watch. The music is quite decent with some popular songs in the recent past. Overall as I said earlier – not disappointing because my expectations were lower than what I got. I thought you could tolerate it. Watch it if you have nothing better to do. 4 on 10.

Watch the trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlorjdK8cI