Sunday, April 06, 2014
Main Tera Hero
Baap-Beta No 1
Without Govinda, David Dhawan’s films had lost their zing. And what d’ya
know, the director discovers a suitable replacement right at home!
Varun Dhawan has the mad-cap energy Govinda had in his heyday; he can
dance, he can ad-lib, he can do the most outrageous things with an innocent
look, plus he has six-pack abs and a better stylist.
Dhawan can never change his spots, he picks up a Telugu film (Kandireega)
that can be adapted to suit his style, and just replaces his old faithful with
new actors. Kader Khan with Anupam Kher, Johnny Lever with Rajpal Yadav,
Satish Kaushik with Saurabh Shukla, Shakti Kapoor with Arunoday Singh and
interchangeable skimpily clad bimbettes. This one’s vintage David Dhawan, but
surprisingly, almost smut-free. His writers using up all their humour thinking
up rhyming dialogue and Bollywood tributes must be too tired to slip in more
than a handful of double-meaning lines. There was a time when every other line
and song in a Dhawan film could make a sailor blush (Sarkailo khatiya,
remember?)
Seenu (Varun Dhawan) is a duffer, who, at age 25 is still in college. But
he says, “Lagta hoon sweet, innocent swami type ka, but hoon main harami
type ka,” as he bashes goons twice his size and has two girls (Illeana
D’Cruz - Nargis Fakhri) waiting to marry him. (He is brainless, they are
dim-witted, what would they live on? Halt such thoughts, this is not the
film for asking how and why?)
The plot is so flimsy it hardly matters, the film is clearly meant to
revive Dhawan Sr’s career with Dhawan Jr’s residual Student of the Year fan-following.
But look for the typical touches: a gangster (Kher) was born in Manali so his
thundering words echo. Or that hilarious kissing demo, that is pucca Dhawan.
There are too many humourless stretches in Main Tera Hero—it
is not the guffaw-inducing type of film, but a few scattered chuckles type.
Arunoday Singh’s comfort level in a film which should have been out of his
range is remarkable—he fits right into the D-world craziness. After this
boisterous all-rounder performance, what Varun Dhawan does next would be
interesting to see.
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