Save your money, time and sanity
and stay away from this farce. Stay a mile away from the theatre screening this
movie, for good measure. Words cannot begin to describe the excruciating
routine we had to go through to present you with this first-hand review for the
Paresh Rawal-starrer, Dharam Sankat Mein.
The name of the movie is a play
on the name of the main character, Dharam Pal Trivedi. A non-religious Hindu Brahmin,
discovers in his late mother’s belongings an adoption certificate that reveals
that he was actually born to Muslim parents. In trying to meet his biological
father, he is made to accept Muslim ways, and side-by-side he is made to
rediscover his Hindu values to impress his son’s would-be father-in-law.
An official remake of the British
comedy, The Infidel, the film is practically the unintended sequel to OMG!
Oh My God, with many of the redundant religious and social questions
being derived from the film, as well as picking up key character descriptions
from PK.
What we are yet to figure out, is why veteran players like Rawal, Annu Kapoor,
and Naseeruddin Shah have been making such terrible decisions lately, regarding
the choice of script. Naseer’s last film, Dirty Politics, was also a
box-office disaster. In this film he plays a businessman baba, who has created
a separate cult of Hindu followers under his name. The character is
unimpressive, hideously unfunny, lacking in substance, and if anything at all,
a waste of the actor’s worth.
The story is torturous, predictable
and had us wishing we left before the interval. The film tries to cover so many
points, all at one time, that it fails to take a firm stand that could have been its unique point. Director Fuwad Khan, who was also the cinematographer
for The
Wednesday made a noble effort with DSM, but failed to provide some innovative
food for thought. Like I said earlier, the film brings nothing new or
impressive to the forefront that hasn’t already been done by the likes of OMG
or PK.
In fact, the only saving grace for this disaster that is in league with
legends such as Ram Gopal Verma ki Aag, was Paresh Rawal, our prime motivation to witness this disaster, whose casually
effective performance kept viewers waiting till the end credits, which is a
BIG sacrifice from their end.
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