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By Joginder Tuteja, March 2, 2009 - 14:08 IST
MOVIE DETAILS
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rahul Khanna, Payal Rohatgi, Saba Azad
Director: Anil Senior
Producer: Shailesh R Singh
Music: Sachin Gupta
Lyrics: Sachin Gupta, Virag Mishra, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shabbir Ahmed
THE FILM
"It seems as if I am an unfulfilled fantasy of every middle aged man."
"You are making me take bath at 1'o clock in the night. We will certainly 'do it', right?"
"What exactly is size 32B?"
"Give me back my sports bra and G-string!"
"Do you want to experiment?"
"I didn't know that women do this as well. Man, she screams during the act!"
"Size does matter!"
....and many more!
These are the some of the many dialogues from Dil Kabaddi that have been reproduced verbatim in this review. One look at them and the picture is quite clear about the genre of Dil Kabaddi. Yes, it's an adult sex comedy and doesn't make any qualms about it. Nothing wrong with this except for the fact that Dil Kabaddi suffers from lack of momentum that restricts it from being the kind of fun movie it 'could' have been!
There are two factors that go against Dil Kabaddi and hence restrict it from being THE film that could have brought sex out of the closet - too much of repetition and too much of talking.
Let's talk about the repetition factor first. What appears to be the strength of the film starts turning out to be annoying as the narrative progresses. The small fights between a much married couple (Irrfan Khan and Soha Ali Khan) are an interesting watch to begin with. In fact this instantly gathers the attention of the viewer as their petty fights confirm that they won't be separated for long (though they try). However, the interest starts fading away as the film progresses because; scenes featuring such bickering (first between Irrfan-Soha and later between their friend couple Rahul Bose-Konkona Sen Sharma) becomes a norm. Frankly, it becomes boring towards the end.
The second hindrance is the entire verbose manner in which the film's narrative operates. The looking-into-the-camera and pouring your heart out to an invisible 'sutradhaar' is a good experiment but as the film progresses, it starts loosing its novelty. Moreover, Konkona Sen become too verbose, especially in the second half of the movie and worse; she just seems to be repeating herself.
The film doesn't follow a linear pattern. Fair enough because it is nice to see filmmakers applying different means to a story. However, after a while the film starts loosing the plot the moment Konkona Sen expresses her own fascination for Rahul Khanna (with whom she had got her friend Soha hitched in the first place). To make things further complicated, we are shown towards the end that Konkona has divorced Bose and married Khanna. A Rahul v/s Rahul exchange here which doesn't hold ground. Though director Senior may argue that it was her boring life that led her to do that, it is still hard to digest.
Meanwhile Irrfan Khan flip-flops between his 'always-cold' wife and 'let's experiment' girlfriend (Payal Rohatgi). And even though he switches off the lights to play 'black-black' with Soha in the film's end, you never know if he would go 'blue-blue' with Payal the very next day! In fact it is this uncertainty that he brings about in his character that makes Irrfan a pleasure to watch on screen. Along with him Soha too excels, hence relegating the trio of Rahul Bose-Konkona Sen-Rahul Khanna in the background. A difficult feat that they do eventually manage to achieve.
With sex as the middle word, Dil Kabaddi could well have been an episode in Life In A...Metro and it's a pity that it doesn't quite go the full distance due to lack of interesting material that could make this two hours affair an engaging exercise. Of course there are quite a few individualistic scenes and dialogues (as stated above) that manage to bring a constant smile on your face, something that makes the film worth a watch with your spouse once the lights are switched off.
PACKAGING
Moser Baer makes an exception with this DVD (as it has done with all the titles that it has acquired from UTV) as it packages it rather smartly in an attractive paper and plastic case.
DURATION
The film's duration is ~ 120 minutes
SPECIAL FEATURES
The DVD doesn't come with any special features
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
- Subtitles in English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo
PRICE
Rs. 99/=
CONCLUSION
During one of his college lectures, film professor Rahul Bose states that it is the beginning and the end of a film that 'matters most'. In this regard he does succeed because while the start of Dil Kabaddi is indeed quite good, the ending is decent as well. However, this isn't really that 'matters most' because it's the middle portion as well that could be made entertaining and engaging, something that the film maker would want to apply in his future projects.
 
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