Why did I waste more than three hours watching DDD was all that I went on thinking about the whole day, the day I watched this latest Priyadarshan´s recipe of indigestible ingredients and not at all going spices. Like many in town, I was equally hopeful of this Hera Pheri gang creating some true mood of comedy through their new movie. Eventually, I realized that expectations don’t always come true. However, I had no clue that expectations could be duped so badly. DDD is a shame for Bollywood considering Priyadarshan’s Hera Pheri and Kanchivaram.
It takes you almost two hours to understand the characters and to recognize their job in the movie. The remaining time is taken up understanding what in the world they have to do in the film. By the time the movie ends, everything seems running the other way; going haywire. In simple words DDD is a complete mess from Bollywood’s celebrated director Priyadarshan.Nitin Bankar (Akshay Kumar) is broke and frustrated working as a driver for his Madam (Arachana Puran Singh), a mean, rich business woman. He cannot quit before he clears his debts to her. Ram Mishra (Suneel Shetty) works as a courier boy. Their girlfriends Anjali (Katrina Kaif) and Manpreet (Sameera Reddy) respectively are born to rich families.
Both Nitin and Ram say no to marriage for they are broke all the time, their girlfriends keep on pressing them to marry. Anjali and Manpreet’s parents want them to marry elsewhere. Paresh Rawal is a bankrupt businessman looking for his son to marry any heiress in town to clear his debts, Neha Dhupia is a bar dancer, Johny Lever is a Chinese don, Chunky Pandey is Paresh Rawal’s son keen to marry Katrina Kaif, Rajpal Yadav is a troublesome waiter at a plush hotel in Singapore and Moolchand Ji is a most pampered Lhasa Apso owned by Archana Puran Singh.
Flummoxed and exhausted!!!
Yes, this is what the movie makes you feel as you go through the scenes one after the other without connecting and balancing a unified plot. The songs are a mess, the characters are a mess and the comedy seems retarded. You actually ask yourself throughout when you should laugh. Forget about the Hera Pheri days. There’s hardly any scene in the movie where you get to see Akshay Kumar, Suneel Shetty and Paresh Rawal together. There are around 28 characters, each playing the lead role. Actually, it seems like Akshay Kumar, Suneel Shetty, Paresh Rawal and Katrina Kaif are guest actors. It’s either chunk of characters running from one place to the other or it’s the bosom of Sameera Reddy that is zoomed unnecessarily.
Why are people shouting so loud, who is married to whom, who is having an affair with whom, who is being kidnapped by whom, who is the don, who is the villain, who plays the lead, why are they chasing each other, why are they abusing one another so much, what happens in the end ? You get no answer to these.
SPOILER AHEAD: The movie ends with a swimming pool bombed off with all the characters in it, the entire hotel - mind you more than 30 floors getting submerged in water like the Titanic going down. And at the end Kumar, Shetty, Kaif and Reddy are happy to have found their kidnap money while the rest are lost like they never existed in the film.
Draw the curtains, please! I conclude.
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