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Spoof on `Trishul'
DAD DILEMMA: Salman Khan and Rishi Kapoor.
Yeh Hai Jalwa (HINDI)
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Salman Khan, Amisha Patel
Dir: David Dhawan
THE LATEST offering from the King of kitsch, David Dhawan, is a spoof on Trishul, one of the biggest hits of the Seventies. Sandpaper away a few layers of emotions, delete a bit of action, add plenty of comic sequences and you have Yeh Hai Jalwa, Trishul -2002.
A lot hangs by the fate of this film. Trade circles have not exactly been enamoured of Dhawan, his famed Midas touch seems to have deserted him in his last couple of films - even Amitabh Bachchan could not arrest the slide in Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin released earlier this year.
And the lead pair - Salman Khan and Amisha Patel - is not exactly having a cakewalk at the box office. Both need a hit as much to revive their sagging career graphs as to silence their detractors. And then there is Ketan Desai as a producer.
After directing films like Allah Rakha and Toofan Manmohan Desai's son has produced this one, hoping to notch up a hit. He can hope for the best for what he has here is not a bad film by the commercial film yardstick but it is not likely to be the runaway hit Dhawan and others badly need.
It has a fine premise for a poignant film. A young man from India lands in London looking for a father he had taken for dead. Only thing is the father is happily married, has his business empire and is not ready to atone for a momentary lapse of reason when he had surrendered to passion.
But this being a Dhawan film, one gets plenty of nice comic interludes between father and son. No tear-jerker this, no questions asked of lineage, it only gets serious at the end. Otherwise, it is a fine game of one-upmanship between two men - Rishi Kapoor as the father gets a good deal - with some good one-liners, enjoyable banter and impressive comic timing.
Jalwa presents a controlled Salman, fully clad, Amisha, whose skimpy outfits keep getting skimpier, and Kapoor who has not had a better role in recent years.
ZIYA US SALAM
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