Directors: Raj and DK
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez, Darshan Kumar, Suniel Shetty
Budget- 50 Crores
Raj & DK are an Indian/ American film director duo known for their unique sense of style and humor. In 2013 they made India's first zombie film, Go Goa Gone which earned almost 25 Crores. Happy Ending (2014) wasn't a box office success but it's still remembered for the comedy scenes between Govinda and Saif Ali Khan.
Sadly their latest film, A Gentleman is neither unique nor very entertaining.
The film has not 1 or 2 but 4 party songs Chandralekha, Baat ban jaye, Dil Disco Disco and Bandook Meri Laila and the music album would have surely found a place in parties and discos.
The first half goes in telling about the lives of the two characters, Rishi and Gaurav, played by Siddharth Malhotra.
Sidharth looks good and performs his roles with sincerity but the story and characters are so average that they hardly manage to hold our interest for long.
Jacqueline Fernandez is the new Katrina Kaif. Her only role in a film is to add glamour in the scenes, say some dialogues and do some difficult dance steps. Infact she is her best when she is dancing. (You must remember her dance moves in Sau tarah ke Rog from Dishoom).
The film starts with this dialogue
“Jab jab jiske lagne hai ... tab tab uske lagte hai ... ab use ittefaq kaho ya phir what the f* ck!!”
From here the quality of the dialogues worsened and we have Gaurav's best friend Dixit who is pronounced by all Americans as ‘Dik-Shit’(how original!) telling him , 'I like thug-life’.
Then there is a scene where the hero asks the heroine,’ Tumne gaadi chalana kaha se seekha?’ and she answers, 'X- Box se’.
As if the directors were also under the influence of X-Box, there were long chase scenes full of gun shots and racing cars or bikes.
During the action scenes I really felt that playing “Call of Duty” would have been more entertaining.
Expert actors like Supriya Pilgaonkar and Rajit Kapoor have just 2 scenes in the film.
Sunil Shetty makes a very disappointing comeback. The star known for his superb action skills has not a single action scene and is reduced to giving instructions to his protegees.
Darshan Kumar, who made an impressive debut through Mary Kom (2014) has a very forgettable role.
The film is mostly shot in Miami and Mumbai. There are few scenes in Goa and Bangkok too. When Dostana came in 2008, people used to lust at the blue beaches and bikini babes and think,”Wow, I’ve to go to this place.” But now most of us watch so many Hollywood series and films that we expect more than exotic locations.
Despite good promotions and publicity the film earned less than 16 Crores in 5 days. The film wouldn't cross the 20 Crores mark thus making it Siddharth Malhotra's lowest earner till now.
In a line, if you are a Sidharth Malhotra fan then for Sundar, watch Student of the Year, for Susheel, watch Kapoor and Sons and for Risky, watch Ek Villain.
Timepass. Avoidable.
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