It’s a film review time and today we are going to give our opinion on movie “Dunki”.
Dunki is the way to settle in foreign land in an illegal way without having the visa. So, the story revolves around five friends who are keen to go to England but having little to no English knowledge and how they suffer in the process. Whether they get to England for better life style forms the basic storyline of this movie.
The director of the movie is Rajkumar Hirani who has made classic movie in the past but somehow fails to make the movie of his standard in this one. There were some part where he did great job but considering overall movie, its not to the mark. Although it’s a dram and film on social commentary, he fails to give proper message to the audience. Considering his track record, this is the weakest film in his career.
The movie stars Shahrukh Khan(Hardy), Tapsee Pannu(Mannu), Boman Irani(Geetu Gulati), Vikram Kochhar(Buggu Lakhanpal), Anil Grover(Balli) with Vicky Kaushal(Sukhi) in special appearance. Here Hardy was shown as ex army officer but after shifting to village named Laltu he do his best for his friend to shift them to London. Shahrukh Khan’s performance was just ok considering how great of a performer he is.
Tapsee Pannu also did ok job here as there were never shown high tension in her character.
Boman Irani was shown as an IELTS teacher and looks like he was used only for comedy gag.
Vikram Kochhar was in my opinion the funniest character. His low IQ and sense of humor creates the most of comedy scenes in the movie.
Anil Grover was also fun to watch.
Vicky Kaushal was in my opinion the perfect character to play the role. He has proper motive shown to go to England and his performance was also effective. His character is the sole reason for the story to move further.
The cinematographer of this movie was C.K. Muraleedharan, Manush Nandan, Amit Roy and Kumar Pankaj who did commendable job in their department.
The music was given by Pritam and the music is one of the strongest quality of the movie. Whether its romantic song or patriotic song, all have great impact on the movie.
As the movie is of drama and comedy genre, it lacks the depth on showing it. The stakes were never to high for the character on a dunki mission. There were some portion were the character had miserable time but the viewer cannot connect through it. And comedy was also just ok. There were some one liner which were funny but overall was not impactful.
We should give props to production design as it was executed well.
The run time of the movie is 2 hours and 41 minutes long which could have been edited by Rajkumar Hirani to make it crisp editing by excluding some sub plots and putting the dunki journey a little bit long as it can have impact on the audience as the stake can be shown higher.
Overall, Dunki was a light-hearted drama movie showing how the people will be treated in foreign soil and was just ok product considering the names associated with it. The dunki journey of the character should be a little longer which was the core of the movie as it helps to show the difficulties of the character and can make the movie bit emotional. In my opinion, Dunki was just ok cinematic experience as the expection were so high.
