 Flamboyantly influenced by best Hollywood flicks Rob Reiner's The Bucket's List and Wayne Wang's The Last Holiday, Shashanth Shah pitches a spellbinding deliverance with 'Dasvidaniya'. Splendiferous jaunting of an individual of rediscovering himself on the course of accomplishing his list of 'To do 10 things before I die'… Dasvidaniya merely dribbles with traces of these Hollywood flicks and auteur has lassoed something innovative in terms of narration. Yeah, Shashanth glues us together with the protagonist excogitating ourselves with his characterization. Of course, this USP draws not just multiplex audiences, but 'B' Centres and front-benchers.
Well, for film buffs and critics, Dasvidaniya must be congealing everyone high-spirited, since it's illustrious of Bollywood's changing phase. Gone are those days, where actors with their 'hero worships' savored to the tastes of audiences. Now, it's the other way around as audiences precisely distinguish an Actor and performer. On the buttons, Vinay Pathak is just over-the-top as a performer and Shashanth Shah, a crème de la crème filmmaker.
 Dasvidaniya is bittersweet situational comedy about a man Amar Kaul (Vinay Pathak), whose existence is easily forgotten among the millions of people in the pool of Mumbai's ever-increasing population. Shy and quiet Amar lived a mundane run of the mill life. His existence was non-existent to people around him. His innocence and his obsession for making his daily TO-DO LIST every morning is what motivates him to look forward to the next day.
Then one day a doctor told him that, he will die within 3 months. And then begins a journey of a lifetime for Amar, where he sets out to write his FINAL LIST. The List of 10 things to do before he dies, the List that would make his life worthy, before it actually ends. As the countdown begins, does Amar Kaul succeed in fulfilling the final tasks to do on his wish list ... and in the course of doing them, realized than he has been dead all along until now.
Amar is symbolic of all those people who have always wanted to do things but kept them on hold.
To get on with plotline, it's merely wonderful that turns the entire spotlights and it's a fantastic-directorial by Shashanth Shah. Of course, he has imbibed few sequences from The Last Holiday; protagonist's encounters with boss, proposing to his ladylove at critical minutes, they're similar. Fine! It's as elating as these episodes makes your lips sparkle with smiles.
Getting on with performance; Vinay Pathak steals the show with top-notching nonpareil performance. As mentioned above, he's an exemplification of extraordinary performer breathing life on his persona as in his previous flick as protagonist in 'Bheja Fry'. How about rest of the star-casts? 'Wordless', each one comes up with magnificent performance. Saurabh Shukla spells first-class action and Neha Dupia lives under the skin of her characterization. Rajat Kapoor, Sarita Joshi and Gaurav Gera do justice to their roles while it's just a middling act from Ranvir Shorey.
Shashanth works his magic making you smile at times, soaking your eyes with tears and moreover making everyone reflect with characters. Nevertheless, fine-cherishing moments slightly seem to be diminishing in latter half and you call it a sluggish screenplay. Well, Shashanth steps out from box-of-blame and it's Arshad Syed who should've headed off with flimsy parts.
 Musical score by Kailash Kher is pretty well on 'Alvida' and 'Mumma' swaying with different paradigms. Well, cinematography by Arun Varma and Aseem's editing leaps with ne plus ultra on all moments.
As a whole, Dasvidaniya rivets for its simple tale and heart-binding emotions. Perhaps, if scriptwriter had avoided sulky parts, the film would have basked to all centers.
Verdict: Shashanth Shah – The Olympian in Bollywood
Rating: ****
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