Film: Dolly Ki Doli
Director: Abhishek Dogra
Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Pulkit Samrat, Rajkummar Rao
Sonam Kapoor’s new film Dolly Ki Doli is a post- Queen liberated modern independent woman story, which like the Kangana Ranaut film, ends with the girl making her own decisions and choices.
Before you applaud, you must know that the film is a frivolous mess devoid of detail or logic; the modus operandi of the film’s con is outrageously silly to the extent that it makes this feminist heroine seem like the stupidest thief on the planet.
She robs the man and his family on the night of the wedding, without disguise or change of name and actually hopes that none of the guests would have taken a picture at the wedding (the videographer and the photographer are part of the con team).
It’s almost like nobody involved in the writing or making of this film has ever been to a wedding, forget planning one.
The weddings happen overnight, robberies even faster by administration of drugged milk to family members — because the makers decided that none of these rich families have any CCTV or security guards. And this feminist heroine stays a chaste virgin after making excuses on the “suhaag raat” every single time.
Despite stealing so much, this gang never seems to have made enough money, probably because the return on investment was a little too low after hatching elaborate plans involving pulling off a wedding.
But if you are willing to look at the film purely metaphorically, then Dolly Ki Doli is the story about a girl betrayed by a boy after the promise of a wedding, deciding to exact her revenge on the joint Indian family, the system of weddings, family-controlled grooms and the jail of marriage as she calls it.
The bride here doesn’t want to Kill Bill; she just wants to rob the many such Bills and break their hearts. Because she’s not a girl in a yellow leather suit and a samurai sword.
She’s a Bollywood heroine who can only do what she is good at — weddings. Sonam Kapoor makes us like her, and the boys in the film (especially Rajkummar Rao) make their half-baked characters come alive.
But for a few moments and its short running time, Dolly Ki Doli is a total con. Beware.
Sudhish Kamath
Dolly Ki Doli
Genre: Comedy
Director: Abhishek Dogra
Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Pulkit Samrat, Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub, Archana Puran Singh
Storyline: A con girl serially marries men only to drug and rob them on the night of the wedding
