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By Joginder Tuteja, March 13, 2008 - 17:54 IST
MOVIE DETAILS
Cast: Rajpal Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Anupam Kher, Rati Agnihotri, Amrita Arora and Aashish Chaudhary (Yes, his name does come
towards the very end. Remember the feud between him and the film's producers?)
Director: S. Chandrakant
Producer: Ranjan Prakash, Surendra Bhatia
Music: Siddhartth-Suhas
Lyrics: Kumaar
THE FILM
When a film's catchwords read as 'It's Funny', expectations are being set around what to expect form the film. In the season of
comedies where one comic entertainer per fortnight has been the order of the day, especially in year 2007, Rama Rama Kya Hai
Dramaaa too arrived early 2008. However, the film failed at the box office with audience hardly showing any interest in
checking out the film, whether in A, B or C centers. The reasons were aplenty:
First and foremost the look of the film in itself came in for quite some criticism, as was quite apparent when the promos hit the
small screen. With hardly any color correction in film, RRKHD looked like an early 90s flick with screeching colors leading to
not-so-impressive visuals.
Secondly, the cast hardly enthused the audience as the combination of Aashish Chaudhary, Rajpal Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Amrita
Arora, Anupam Kher and Rati Agnihotri didn't quite make one jump into the queue for watching the flick.
Thirdly, the comedy was pretty much targeted at the gallery. Ok, in defense of the makers, their last film Tom Dick and Harry
too had masses in mind. In fact, it was abound with doubt entendres and some real downright offensive jokes. But then it had it's
cast (Dino Morea, Celina Jaitley, Jimmy Shergill, Kim Sharma) and a man by the name of Himesh Reshammiya ('Zara Jhoom
Jhoom') coming to the rescue. RRKHD lacks this because though Siddhattth-Suhas came up with a decent soundtrack (Title
song, 'Ye Faasle', 'Dekha Tujhe'), it could never scale the heights set by Tom Dick and Harry.
Last but not the least, the story in itself. How banal can it get to have an entire plot being centric on a man 'imagining' someone
else as his own wife! The central protagonist here, Rajpal Yadav, after being frustrated by his wife (It is never explained why is he
frustrated? One is just told that Neha Dhupia hails from a village/small town, but was that reason enough?), starts looking at every
girl in his close prominence as his own wife. Whether it is his colleague's girl friend or his boss' (Aashish Chaudhary) wife (Amrita
Arora), he starts making castles in the air with them. And no, the absurdity doesn't end just with this. He goes on to dream
sequence after sequence, day after day, event after event with them, all when he has been day dreaming for just a few minutes!
Ok, so one does tend to break into a giggle or two at a few places. But such instances are far and few as otherwise the film plain
bores. To hand it to the director, there are no vulgar jokes or below the belt talks happening, here as RRKHD is pitched as a family
film. Still, the film moves as ordinarily as it can and keeps you thoroughly disinterested in the proceedings. In fact it is painful to
see actors like Anupam Kher and Rati Agnihotri (as Rajpal's caring neighbors) being thoroughly wasted in an affair like this.
Ever dependent Rajpal Yadav too is just about decent in the film. One misses his eccentricity, which is the hallmark of his acting.
Neha Dhupia seems to be stuck in this affair and one wonders if she would have realized her mistake of signing this film on the
first day of her shoot itself! Aashish Chaudhary and Amrita Arora are the glam couple in the film and though they do maximum in
their capacity to spice up the proceedings (their track is a direct lift from the one enacted by Vivek Oberoi and Amrita Rao in
Masti), they are tied down by a sub-standard script.
Overall, the film is a deserving failure and all it's cast members would be happier forgetting about their association with the
project.
PACKAGING
The DVD comes in an ordinary paper case with a kind of decent design and layout, which caters mainly to B and C centers.
DURATION
The film comes in a single DVD pack with the film's duration being approximately 140 minutes.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The DVD doesn't come with any special features.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen format-
- Subtitles In English
- Dolby Digital 5.1
PRICE
Rs. 149/-
CONCLUSION
Skip it!
  
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