Dishkiyaoon

The first few minutes of Dishkiyaoon feel straight out of a James Hadley Chase based film noir. A young gangster narrating the story of his willing descent into the world of crime to a senior, trading words of metaphorical wisdom while playing a nonchalant game of snakes and ladders. But the magic wears down real fast, starting right from Sunny Deol's hackneyed Haryanvi accent, to Harman Baweja's continued lifelessness.

Yes, 6 years after his disastrous debut, Baweja's comeback could not have been worse. In acting skills he is still no better than fellow star-kid Neil Nitin Mukesh. Actually worse, because Mukesh was at least able to carry off the much more intelligent Johnny Gaddar with his two expressions. In Dishkiyaoon, Harman is Vicky Kartoos, who wants to rise to the top of the Mumbai underworld as painlessly as possible. Juxtaposed against him is his mentor Mota Tony who quite swears by the gun. More eccentric gangsters with funny names abound. There is Rocky Chu.... (who thinks he looks like Sanjay Dutt), Khalifaa (who is proud of the fact that he does not carry a gun), Lakwa (obviously the polio afflicted one) and Gujjar (yes, everyone is proud of the caste card now). Dishkiyaoon is about Vicky finding his destiny, along with numerous plot twists, sudden homicides, along with the mandatory love angle.

Fancy names do not make an interesting movie, a good script definitely does. That is problem number one with Dishkiyaoon. While the premise is interesting, there is absolutely no character development. People just pop up to mouth punch lines and disappear. The treatment of the movie is curiously reminiscent of the recent 100 cr dud, Gunday- flat, emotionless, boring. People think any gangster movie works, such is the popularity of anarchists in today's world. Good acting does make up for script weakness sometimes. That is problem number two for Dishkiyaoon. Prashant Narayanan as Mota Tony and Anand Tiwari as Rocky Chu offer some redemption but it is too little. Baweja flaunts his torso, indulges in some free running, but that's about all he can do. To quote Yoda, the NNM force is still strong with him. Even Sunny Deol's short presence does nothing to improve things, plus he does NOT get to throw a punch. Really, this might be the first such movie that he has not raised his 2.5 kilo hand.

Girlfriend Bipasha Basu might have been moved to tears by beau Baweja's acting, but for the audience, the tears are entirely for a different reason. The gulf between him and Hritik is even wider than what it was 6 years back. And while the material was interesting, débutant director Sanamjit Sarkar Talwar has probably bitten off more than he can chew. In the hands of say Sriram Raghavan, this could have been sumptuous fare. 5/10

I watched this movie with an open mind and was surprised to find a mature script and good direction by a first time director. I am surprised that the movie did not do well at the box office which after some research I believe happened due to the timing of release of the movie.

The script is very well written with details thought through. There is an irony in every twist of plot. The events of the plot are all interlinked so don't consider any character or scene unnecessary in the movie. They all have a role in taking the story forward.

This is among the great movies of the year I have seen released until May 2014. For people who like to see movies with a little thinking this is a must see.

Well well well. Movie script is so good. Prashant narayan as TONY, Ankit as ROCY and KHALEEFA are the best thing in the movie. Sunny deol acting and haryanvi tone is vary bad. Herman is just average. But overall film is very good.

DHISHKIYAOON - The biggest thing what Dhishkiyaoon taught us is how to waste a good script...... The script is actually good,,,,with interesting characters,,,,twists,,,,more of brains ,, less of bullets,,,,not a usual revenge drama,,,,but its the star cast and the director who spoiled it.......

A bad movie for Harman for.making his comeback,,,,and i don't think this would help him much in his carrier.....His acting skills are not so improved,,,,and somebody tells him,,,,growing a good moustache doent make anybody a gangster.....He was not at all tough,,,,,talks so gently using manners,,,,,,looks so much under confident that you will not get interested in knowing whats his story is....... I could easily understand why Shilpa Shetthy has decided to produce the movie,,,,because the script looks good on paper but u have to execute it,,,,make it intense,,,,,grow interest in the mind of audience,,,,but the movie falls flat,,,,,like what happened in case of AURANGZED starring Arjun Kapoor...... There are some twist and turns in the movie which are good,,,,but unable to keep the interest awake..... And we have some unsituational songs too,,,,never mind........ Sunny Deol has a very small screen time,,,,still in his small screen time he is too much annoying and uncomfortable in his Haryanvi tone........One of his worst work till date.....

Prasant narayan (murder 2) and tony and Ankit (go goa gone) as Rocky are best among them,,,,rest of the star cast is forgettable,,,,including the lead actress....... With a small running time of 1 hr and 59 min,,,,movie cant able to engage u...... Its a sure shot miss,,,,hard core gangster movie fans should also give it a miss I have liked the starting that bran will be used more in the movie as compared to guns,,,,but i guess the brains are not smart enough...... Giving 2.25 out of 5 ,,,, for some twist and noble acting by Prasant Narayan....... ANuP APu KuMaR

A completely worn-out, seen before and over-used concept can become watchable only if it has something fresh to say in its execution breaking some previous norms. But the latest action thriller DISHKIYAOON directed by Sanamjit Singh Talwar (made on the same old backdrop of underworld dons), doesn't even have one single scene to impress you in any way.

Moreover the film actually looks like one of those old, stalled projects which has been finally presented as a complete film after re-editing all its available rushes somehow, as the producer's last resort. And this conclusion can easily be drawn by looking at the film's sloppy editing and its very first scene which right away introduces both Sunny Deol and Harman Baweja talking to each other in a quite lazy and uninspiring manner, simply ruining the excitement built by its interesting promos.

So honestly there is nothing to be written as a detailed review here. But yes, there still remain one unique manner in which the film can serve as something highly useful for all the professional institutes teaching film-making (with reference to only Hindi films).

Explaining it further, DISHKIYAOON certainly can be considered as one project which can perfectly be used to teach what is meant by 'Wrong Casting' or 'Miscasting' in a film to the enthusiastic students of cinema, undoubtedly. And the reason for this is that except Prashant Narayan & Aditya Pancholi playing their usual mannerisms, not even a single lead actor looks like the role he is playing and one can notice this big mistake in the film's opening sequence itself quite clearly. For instance, Sunny Deol (in his only few minutes appearance) turns out to be a complete misfit speaking in a Hariyanvi tone, Harman Baweja pretty unconvincingly plays a tapori having the persona of a rich brat, Anand Tiwari (trying hard) reminds you of a comic character ready to crack a joke every time he comes on the screen and Sumit Nijhawan as the head gangster seems to be a last moment change after a refusal by any other deserving candidate.

In short, what can you expect from a movie which has all its four lead actors, misfit for their respective roles and the director is more interested in only style and less content, talking about nothing new. So I walked out of the theater even before it ended properly and no I didn't stay for any sizzling act of Shilpa Shetty Kundra played along the end credits.