DEKH RE DEKH REVIEWS

Director: Rahat Kazmi
Cast: Gracey Singh, Vijay Raaz, Raghuveer Yadav and Siddarth Koirala
Release Date: 2009-07-17 08:00:00
Quick Take: Not even worth a dekko on cable



It's a village story. So people speak aavo-jaavo type Hindi (which is promptly forgotten by the middle of the movie, and they speak bambaiyya tapori language). Gracey Singh is the heroine of this village story, because only she is dressed as the village belle in ghagras and cholis, others dress in normal salwaar kameez and sarees. She has had a bad marriage and wants to run away from her life, so she recruits a sad sack (Siddarth Koirala) in spotless shirts. He's sad because he doesn't want to work with his dad in a kabadi (garbage recycling) shop (remarkably full of neat stacks of newspapers; very literate villagers, I say!). Sad sack and village belle ask the village politician to help. Village politician (Raghubeer Yadav) also has a sob story. the three ask village drunk/thief (Vijay Raaz in very bad Salman Tere Naam Khan hairstyle) to help. They plan to steal the ancient but very valuable Krishna idol and sell it to change their futures. If you survive their sob stories, you groan at what they steal: a baby Krishna idol which looks neither ancient nor valuable. It's just terrible to watch them escape bungling cops, take refuge in a scary haveli with an even scarier woman who too has a sob Bhootnath-like story. What ensues is worse. They try to double cross one another and all end up dead. You want to clap in relief but no... The film goes on and on and there's no saviour... Their village is picturesque, but everything else is just waste of film stock.