Dunki’s empathy towards its own subjects isn’t deep enough to explore what really is at stake for them.
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Dunki Movie Review by Sucharita Tyagi -
Is it a slapstick comedy? Is it a comedic look at tragic events? Is it a tragedy addressing foreign policies? Is it hard-hitting questions asked comedically? Dunki, to its own detriment, is all the above, and then some.
The first hour of Dunki looks tragically, astonishingly callous when you hold it against the rest of the film. The first few sequences generate fun intrigue - why is Taapsee at a hospital? Who is hardy and why do they desperately want to go back to him? Why isTaapsee the travel agent telling these people they can't get Indian VISAs when they’re clearly Indian? You want to know. Loud jaunty music underscores these goofball antics which then shift to Punjab a flashback. The comedy stretches for far too long. An inexplicable 4th wall breaking voice-over starts dumping exposition in each sequence, characters are introduced and then maintained as “types”. The Punjabi are punajbing, Shahrukh Khan says “oh ji papa ji”, and “mera plan toh sun lo”, constantly dialed to 11, his acting choice hinging on little more than the Punjabi bade loud hote hain stereotype. Manu is besties with one guy who works as a barber, the other sells salwars to ladies, never explaining why in a 90s Punjab small town she is never seen with women. As long as the plot progresses, details don’t matter. Essentially everything, up until the interval, has kind of a fake plasticky sheen one sees in those lyra lyra anytime anywhere advertising.
1 scene when we FIRST meet Hardy, he gets off a train with mega excitement, gets shoved by a man, his mithaai falling to the floor. Before he can gather it, some kids start singing the national anthem, Hardy stops and stands upright. Another man steals the laddoos and leaves, as Hardy in a moment of nationalism allows what’s his to be taken away in front of his eyes. Therein lies the movie Dunki could have been, aap dekh ke bataao.
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Dunki (transl. Donkey flight) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film based on the eponymous illegal immigration technique. The film is directed and edited by Rajkumar Hirani from a screenplay he wrote with Abhijat Joshi and Kanika Dhillon. Produced under the banners of Red Chillies Entertainment, Jio Studios and Rajkumar Hirani Films, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal (billed as a special appearance), and Boman Irani.
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Sucharita
26 авг 2024
