Yamla Pagla Deewana

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Perhaps I should preface this by saying that the previous Hindi film I watched was Kambakkht Ishq. Thus any film after watching that turkey would have a better than even chance of being entertaining. Ten minutes into this film and I was wondering whether I had chosen wisely and to be fair the first half of the film could have done with some judicious re-editing to tighten it up a bit and remove some truly superfluous stuff. Thereafter however, the madness just pulls you in and the second half of the film is a comedy blast. Despite the absurdity, the clichés, the plot holes and everything else that might be wrong with it, the reasons that this film succeeds are simply because it does not take itself too seriously and it has the Deols. The whole film rests upon their very capable shoulders and they pull it off with ease. Its almost as if they were using each other to boost their own performances like some sort of springboard and got into a little unspoken competition to see who was best in the process. My money is still on the old man! Which is not to say that the supporting cast is any less capable, for in general they are more than able to hold their own with the Deols in full flight. Sure there are some minor quibbles in the casting but overall it is as strong a cast as I have seen in a Hindi film. Special mention for Kulraj Randhawa, someone I have never seen before and wondering why. No slouch as an actor, she is undoubtedly beautiful with the most mesmerising eyes and a gorgeous smile which are used to excellent effect in the film. The music for the most part is wonderful and serves the film very well indeed. Like the rest of the film, the music gets better the further the film goes. Not classic cinema by any means but damn entertaining, this is the sort of film that you can pull off the shelf every so often and watch again as if for the first time. It is one of the very few films I have ever seen twice in one day, and still enjoyed it. Overall a solid 7/10 pushing towards an 8/10

I am Deol's fan(specially Dharmendra & Sunny) and know that they could better than lot of people think. There one of the first home production was Dillagi a good movie and good songs, then Apne was also OK and now YPD. The major problem of all these movies I have found is length of the movie and unwanted emotional scenes which attracts to only few people (mainly punjabi's). if Dillagi had climax scene only for 5 mins instead of 15-20 mins It would have been a HIT. If Dharmendra had cried lesser in Apne, it would have also been a HIT. And if they had not showed first half of YPD in Banaras which doesn't suit either of the Deol's, This would have also been a HIT movie. Dharmendra and loving son Bobby was doing 80's conning in the Banaras which is not possible in 2011 and on top of than charming Bobby has to do romance with punjabi girl that too in Banaras and suddenly movie take turn to PUNJAB when real fun starts and which everyone was hoping after watching stunning movie trailer over internet :). It was more like DDLJ kind of drama but more like JAT punjabi style not like Sharukh khan style but it was full of fun, hilarious. I would like to give credit to Mukul Dev which acted really well as drunken punjabi. At the end I would recommend movie to all the Deol's fan but also wanted to write my feeling regarding this movie as well that Deol's cannot make audience cry in funny comedy movie which I guess is become their trademark.