Yamla Pagla Deewana featuring real life father & sons Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol is a film which is silly, old-fashioned, lengthy, predictable but funny for most of its part.
I guess actors were roped in first and then script was printed later because the plot here is no different from bollywood movies of 90’s. Actually, there is no story here. In childhood, son loses track of his brother-father who after 2-3 decades turn into con-men and in disguise they play con on him only. Haven’t you witnessed such similar stories million times in our hindi movies? Nothing’s diverse here. Macho man, Sunny deol (as Paramveer) from all the way to Vancouver, lands in Banaras to search his father-brother and that’s it, he finds them effortlessly with sheer ease. Bobby deol (as Gajodhar) wants to win his love i.e. Sahiba (played by Kulraj), in that process helping hands are but obviously Paramveer and Dharam (played by Dharmendra) and against them, odd-man is Anupam Kher (as Joginder singh) who is Saahiba’s elder brother.
Screenplay and Dialogues were quite ordinary; freshness and sharpness were surprisingly absent. Particularly, during songs, you feel like leaving hall and get a sigh of relief. If the backdrop is of Punjab, music should be perceptibly uplifting, but here regrettably, it’s thoroughly unsatisfactory. Each and every item number used purposefully without situation fails to engage and amuse the viewer. First half depicting mostly Gajodhar’s love story is plain monotonous and long-drawn-out while second half of the movie is well executed and it never loses pace and succeeds to lit a smile on viewer’s face.
Revisiting Gadar’s action sequences least seriously was pure fun. Rajnikant and Chulbul Pandey’s action sequences has become a fashion now, a trend which is repeated stoplessly and Samir Karnik uses it wisely. Legendary grunt of Sunny Deol was worth appreciating here, when he stands tall and broad against 15-20 men, as usual is the most funniest scene of the movie. This is indeed the USP of this actor and considering his previous works in past few years, this one’s the best.
Watching all deols with turban and fake beard dancing, laughing, crying and hugging was a scenario which you don’t get to witness usually. It seemed all of them cherished this film much more than the audience. And that’s why, this silly movie becomes not only watchable, but pleasurable.
The one performance which stands out in this 3 hour long film is of poli (played by Sucheta Khanna) as younger sister of Sahiba. The way she tries to butter up Gajodhar is immensely funny and her incredible style of pronouncing Canada as “Canneda” is exclusively rib-tickling. This is a character which reminded me of witty sales girl in supermarket of LSD.
It’s funnier than each and every Akshay Kumar starrer of 2010 and for the dignity Deols invested here, I’d recommend you this asinine but nevertheless comical movie without hesitation !!
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