Dishkiyaoon Movie Reviews

There is enough suspense to keep you glued to your seat. But if it wasn’t for the usual dose of naach-gaana and the same old ‘mafia gimmicks’, this film could have been crisper. The first-half meanders aimlessly while the second half is fast paced.

A weak story-line and amateurish direction, coupled with average performances, the film disappoints on many levels. Watch it for the unintentionally hilarious dialogues in the first half.

The comic punches are too few and far between, plot twists make little sense and are saddled with glaring loopholes. The film’s climax will take you by surprise. Which is not to say that it’s a well-made thriller. It just means that you got so engrossed in trying to make sense of this haphazardly put-together story, you didn’t have much time to realise there’d be the big reveal at the end of it for you to apprehend.

A gangster flick with a complement of dark, twisted characters and a plot burdened with an overload of twists, Dishkiyaoon is high on style but low on substance.

Dishkiyaoon is more of a comeback vehicle for an actor than an earnest effort at making a good film.

A young boy aspires to become a don when he grows up because he believes in settling scores as opposed to leading a life of Ahimsa

As temperaments rise, shootouts become common and the body count increases, Dishkiyaoon becomes more cumbersome to watch. There is nothing “poetic”, as Lakwa likes to say, about the proceedings.

On the whole, DISHKIYAOON misses the mark!

Dishkiyaoon confounds on a very basic technical level. Baweja sincerely tries, but is undone by scrambled writing that relies more on colorcoding than action or entertainment.

Throughout the film Viki Kartoos keeps reiterating his mantra that being smart is enough for him in his field, only if the makers could stick to the story in a similar fashion we would’ve had a far better film than Diskiyaoon. A complete shot in the dark.

Dishkiyaoon has endless flaws. The drawback is the screenplay of the film. It is such a loose attempt that one wonders if it is career saving or career destroying film for Harman Baweja. Director Sanamjit Singh Talwar promoted ​​this film as an action film, but the action is completely missing. It seems like a bad week for movie buffs with all three big releases getting mixed opinion. But Dishkiyaoon is definitely not an option for you.

The least one expected was a new perspective. As a character in the films says –‘It is poetic’. Sadly the film is not. Avoid. The convoluted second half makes sure the viewer is completely disconnected, with the finale twist being the only interesting aspect.

What redeems this film is the eventful pace. There’s gang wars, drugs being smuggled from Iran and copious tears shed during heartbreak (yes, gangsters have hearts too). Sadly, this viewer had reached a stage where she was beyond caring.

Harman Baweja struggles to create an impact in this drab and listless film. He only succeeds in announcing to the world what a chiseled body he’s got. Surely, you are not going to bite the bullet for Dishkiyaoon then.

Before starting with the review, R.I.P. Nimish Chheda. He was the sound designer for Dishkiyaoon. Dishkiyaoon is the tale of Viki Kartoos (Harman......

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Bollywood has two types of films: the intelligent ones and those clichéd “leave-brains-at-home” ones. Dishkiyaaon is a pathbreaker. For we life-loving people, it’s the “bring a noose to the theatre” variety. There are some well-shot action scenes and a plethora of clichés but the film largely entertains. Sadly, not in the way it intended to.

This is the kind of film where everyone refers to themselves in the third person (“Gujjar ne kaha kaali diary mein likh dey” : Gujjar being a bad guy and ‘kaali diary’ a black notepad, got it?), and wanders about biding time till the next meaningless shoot-out and killing. Who writes this kind of tripe? Someone please shoot me in the head.

The screenplay, written by the director himself, has no proper emotional hook anywhere to make audience feel interested in it. Instead, it just drags and boring audience to death. The film ends up another attempt in presenting a slick film, without substance.

I doubt whether many will be as determined as us to watch the full movie. As we walk out of the theatre, we are left with an image of Harmen pointing a gun at himself, almost echoing the state of our mind.

…a dull fare and will, therefore, bomb at the box-office. It will entail heavy losses to all concerned.