Rascals: should be banned immediately!!

Rating: 0.5/5

Punjabis are blessed with humor, we know it. David Dhawan proved that with Deewana Mastana, Biwi No.1, Haseena Maan Jaayegi, Mujse Shaadi Karogi & many more but now he has completely lost it. He is now literally raping the art called “film-making” and in doing so, employing accomplished actors. He seems to be hell bent on ruining his image. Without even a tiniest doubt, one can say that his previous film “Do knot disturb” was the worst film of 2009 and yes in 2011, he took that cheapness and ridiculousness to a new height, by delivering “Rascals”.

Devoid of common sense, Rascals has storyline which our bollywood has presented countless times. 2 rival con-men named Chetan (played by Sanjay Dutt) & Bhagat (played by Ajay Devgn) separately rob another con-man i.e. Anthony (played by Arjun Rampal) and then, they runaway from India to Bangkok, may be because of fear but I think that isn’t the idea behind it. Idea is to show us the tourist version of Bangkok but Dhawan fails in that too. In Bangkok, they both fall in love with the same girl, Khushi (played by Kangna Ranaut & her brand new implants).

Both con-men cross each other’s way more or less in a way similar to Andaz Apna Apna & Deewana Mastana. But here, Dhawan explores humor less and voluptuous bodies of females more. Another lady in the film is Lisa Hayden, who plays prostitute. None of them are provided with funny lines or funny moments.  All they did in film was, wore skimpy outfits & remove them. I’d like to share one sample dialogue from this film, uttered by sidekick Nano (played by Hiten paintal) to Sanjay Dutt – “Bhai, aap point point karte reh jaaoge aur woh usko leke nariman point pahunch jaayega”. Either Chunky Pandey plays nepali watchman or some hotel’s manager. I guess those are the only roles left for him nowadays. In 2010’s dreadful film “Housefull”, he delivered some fresh jokes but this time he himself proved that he deserves nothing better than such leftovers. Here, he dons the role of gujarati hotel manager – Bhagat Bholabhai Chaganmal (he prefers BBC). Funny, eh?? This character was nothing less than a torture.

I know David Dhawan is not interested in improving quality of Indian Cinema but he should definitely stop fooling audience now. Bad performances by leads are due to nasty screenplay, rubbish dialogues & chewed storyline. But, why do they accept such roles? Well, I don’t know but I do wish that in the future we will not be cursed this way.

You must not dare to think about film’s music. Only Kangna seemed happy with her role and we know why! Else everyone fooled themselves and viewers. Hope this film vanishes from cinemas as soon as possible.