 It’s precisely a willy-nilly scenario for UTV Productions has it persistently churning out flicks with good motifs. Well, that’s a good spell but one finical doubt does keep ringing in our minds. Do the producers heed to full-fledged script and screenplay or else sign-up for directors merely with one-liners. Previous year has been the most fantastic era for UTV as they had best scripts on the screens. But gradually, the dioramas are shifting now and it goes illustrious with this week’s release ‘Dhoondte Reh Jaoge’. Fine! Couple of years back we had a super-comedy Hollywood flick – ‘Mr. Beans Holiday’ where protagonist’s candid-amateurish sequences of his own journey to Cannes Film Festival bags the best laurels. Likewise, much closer to this motif, here’s Umesh Shukla with his ‘Dhoondte Reh Jaoge’ a film about couple of individuals planning to make a worst film in the history. But things aren’t as expected.
Anand Pawar (Kunal Khemu) and Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal) are perhaps the two most extreme individuals that have walked the city of Mumbai. While Anand is an idealist chartered accountant, Raj is an idle film producer.
They hatch a plan to raise a lot of money to produce a feature film and then actually make it at a pittance amount. In fact they decide to make it so badly that audiences would reject it on the first day of its release. Anand and Raj believe this would give them a foolproof chance to decamp with the remaining huge amount they raise to invest in the making of this venture. But oblivious to this common plan, Raj has a hidden one. Things go haywire, so Raj makes Anand the fall guy and the latter ends up in jail.
As tables turn against Anand, he suddenly loses his job and his girlfriend Neha, who refuses to marry a loser. Anand's squeaky clean image goes for a toss and he decides to take revenge on Raj. Anand goes back to Raj, and asks him to join forces again. He insists that their master plan could still work out, only if they think much bigger. Anand explains to Raj how they can generate a whopping 110 crores from the stock market and then make their film only in 10 crores.
They begin working on their plan, and sign up Bollywood superstar Aryan Kapoor (Sonu Sood) at a token payment of 3 crores. Aryan is offered to act opposite his girlfriend Riya, but surprisingly, the actor refuses.
That's when Raj suggests Anand to cast his girlfriend Neha, who also has acting ambitions. Since they plan to make a flop film, Raj tells Anand that Neha will not only come back in his life, but also become dependent on him since her acting career will end after their film's disastrous fate. Anand agrees. Neha (Soha Ali Khan) is thrilled to know that Anand is producing a film and that she is being cast opposite a big star like Aryan Kapoor.
After some hiccups, Anand and Raj manage to make the film and release it deliberately alongside other big films that could overshadow their film. Their devious plan seems to be right in track. But as the adage goes... 'Man proposes; God disposes', the film turns out to be a huge hit. Now the financers and distributors are after Anand and Raj for their chunk of shares from the huge profit. Anand and Raj's problems multiply by the second.
 Maybe, the outline plot sounds quite commendable, but it’s exposed to an awful screenplay with boredoms. It really keeps us wondering how come the best actors who had made decent performances in their previous films accepted this offer.
Getting on with the director, the spoofs he has tried dallying on Bollywood’s various flicks reminds us off Hollywood’s Scary Movie (2000) that made straight-out fun on best films like I Know What did you last summer, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix and more.
But the similarities end here and the results are completely dissimilar. Yeah! Not all the spoofs are really entertaining for that case.
Delivering tremendous performances with ‘Jodha Akbar’, ‘Singh is King’ and ‘Ek Vivah Aisi Bhi’, it’s really puzzling watching him over here. Was it an experimental venture? We’ve got to ask Sonu about this. Well, ditto to Soha Ali Khan, who won the best critical acclaims for her top-notching show in ‘Rang De Basanthi’ and ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’? Alas! Her previous film ‘Dil Kabaddi’ and this one really disgusts and diminishes her best performances in the previous ones.
Every actor deserves the same questions and both Versatile Actor Paresh Rawal and Kunal Khemu aren’t elision? In all his films, especially Zakhm and Dhol, the lad had his decorous acting.
There isn’t much commendable about the technical aspects. Director Umesh Shukla could’ve fine-tuned the screenplay blending them with interesting parts.
Finally, ‘Dhoondte Reh Jaoge’ is a film that can be watched, if you drop your cognizance outside theatres. Even then, you’ve to remain stubborn for certain flimsy substances prevailing almost throughout the show.
Verdict: Watch it if you can…
Rating : ** ½
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