It's been a pretty hectic week & what better way to unwind than with some light hearted movie which led me to Tushar Jalota's "Dasvi" on the recommendation of a colleague. Apparently, it was released on Netflix & JioCinema on Thursday and I decided to check it out last night after my professional commitments were completed for the week. Since I havent watched the trailer earlier, I wasnt quite sure what to expect after all it was Tushar's debut directorial venture.
Ganga Ram Chaudhary (Jr AB) is the corrupt and arrogant CM of the fictional state, Harit Pradesh who gets jailed for the scam in the recruitment of teachers. However, he ensured that the power remained in his hands as his wife Bimla Devi (Nimrat Kaur) was made the CM for the interim period. As expected, he enjoyed privileges in jail as well until Jyoti Deswal IPS (Yami Gautam) took over charge as the jailor & he was forced to take up tasks assigned to each convict. This is when he realizes that an option to escape from such stuff was to spent time with books & utilize it to clear his 10th standard.
There is no doubt that the thread as such was interesting & it keeps the audience in good spirits in the first half. However, the combined efforts of Ritesh Shah, Suresh Nair & Sandeep Layzell failed to add more content to the primary thought. Eventually it concludes as a flick that could have achieved much more & did have the scope for it. When equipped with a weak script, there isn't nothing much Tushar could have done; but despite that I feel that he has done a reasonable job as it was certainly enjoyable. None of the technical aspects deserves special mention though Sachin-Jigar's music was fine.
Jr AB deserves praise for a job that was reasonably well done as he captured the nuances and Haryanvi dialect pretty well. Yami was in the news recently where apparently she has gone hard on some reviewer who slammed her performance. To be fair, I certainly felt she did what was possible with the character offered to her while Nimrat was wasted in a role that did have screen space but barely used her talent. As for the rest, Manu Rishi (as Satnam Tomar), Danish Hussain (as Rae Bareli) & Arun Kushwah (as Ghanti) did their parts aptly.
Verdict: A light hearted comedy that brings a smile but restricts itself into being stereotypic!!!
Rating: 2.5/5
Regards...Ben
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