Dil Bole Hadippa Review
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Score: 2.5 / 5
Dil Bole Hadippa is loosely inspired by the 2006 high school rom-com She’s The Man, in which a girl disguises herself as her brother to get on a soccer team. Of course the story has been thoroughly Punjabified.
In Dil Bole Hadippa, Anurag almost seems to be ticking off a checklist: patriotic references to motherland, reference to YRF’s monster hit DDLJ, Punjabi chest-thumping with dialogues like main ek Punjabi baap ka Punjabi beta hoon.
Image: Dil Bole Hadippa Review
Image: Dil Bole Hadippa Review
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The push-button emotions and plastic environment is only made worse by the appearance of two literally plastic starlets, Sherlyn Chopra and Rakhi Sawant.
But what saves Dil Bole… from being a total write off is Rani Mukherjee. The actress, looking better than she has in years, pours her soul into Veera Kaur. Her performance, like the film, is high-pitched and broad-stroked but she makes it work. She and Shahid Kapur have a nice chemistry.
There is something eminently likeable about both of them. So in the climax, when Veera makes a speech about allowing girls to dream, you are actually moved.
Of course, the film is happy to contradict itself. Veera and her equal-opportunity dreams are given great respect but Sherlyn and Rakhi are unapologetically objectified and ridiculed.
At one point, Sherlyn, who is supposedly Miss Chandigarh, arrives at the cricket pitch wearing a bikini top, shorts and a burberry scarf.
Eventually then, Dil Bole… is worth seeing for the sweetness and charm that Rani and Shahid conjure up. Catch it if you have nothing else going on this weekend. Two and a half stars.
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