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Awful, 21 September 2009
1/10
Author: teenbauwa from China

I was surprised to find positive comments on Dil Bole Hadippa on IMDb as I always turn to IMDb for unbiased reviews. So now that people liked DBH, I realize that if I didn't like this movie and rather found it pathetic, it is my fault but still posting my own reasons. To me, it was extremely melodramatic, loud and shallow stuff for this age. I cannot tolerate the century old "Wrong English" comedy any more. It is too much clichéd. Their cricket was one of the most irritating parts of the movie. I mean in cricket, it doesn't have to be a six, a four or a clean bold on every ball. And how all the bindaas girls end up changing Shahid's thoughts and perceptions of life like Geet of Jab We Met and Veera of DBH was also too much. The worst part was DDLJ and HAHK drama. I walked away for a few minutes. Nothing was new the same old modern girl vs Gaun ki gori and bindaas vs polished, desh vs pardes. Not a single dialogue made me laugh or even smile for a moment. Rani is a very talented actress. She should choose intelligent multiplex movies. My Vote: 1 Comment: Awful

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Can someone tell me what they were thinking?, 22 September 2009
5/10
Author: Ali 007 from Canada

First of all i want to say how much i love Rani Mukerje and her acting is brilliant except in this movie. Now the question is why? putting an Teen Heartrob with an actress who could be her sister or aunt ( no offence) i love Rani Mukerje. Seconde if YRF wanted to badly put them together why not in another type of movie DBH has the weakest screenplay ever! the story was so-so the acting was so-so the song was totally crap! If it wasn't for Shahid i don't know why i went to see this movie anyways after Rab Ne Banadi Jodi's hit i don't know if DBH will have the same treatment at the B.O. but one thing is for sure this movie was not worthy to compete with Gowariker's What's Your Rashee at Toronto International Film Festival.

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I loved it - way to go Yashraj Films!!!!, 7 November 2009
Author: Avinash Patalay from Middle Earth

Shahid perhaps jumped at the opportunity to work under YRF without bothering to even ask for the script. His character surfaces quite fickle-minded. Shahid however gives his best shot to infuse life into the character.

For Rani its supposed to be come-back movie - why? When did she have a sabbatical on the first place? And didn't you know what the turn of events when Adi attempted comeback movie for Mrs. Nay-nay? Not being funny but her personality and height was not quite suited for the role of the Surd Veer Pratap Singh (somebody else with a strong personality and better height might have helped). Remember Padmini Kolhapure in Zamaane Ko Dikhana Hai?

Rakhi Sawant can put in her resume that she worked in a YRF banner. Seriously, there wasn't an iota of contribution for her character. YRF perhaps incorporated as a marketing gimmick.

Sherlyn Chopra - again an unwanted character who forces a nasal in the name of sensuous voice. And she hasn't improved a bit since Red Swastik.

Anupam and Dilip Tahil were dependable. Cameo by Poonam was okay'ish.

Whilst in "Chak De" the focus on the game was like fish-eye and there was no tom-foolery around there. Whereas in "Dil Bole Hadippa" there are too many plots::

* Father-son relationship

* Anupam - Poonam failed marriage

* Rani's passion for the game

* Shahid - Rani's romantic track

* India - Pakistan milaap

Amongst all these somewhere the game of cricket seems desperately hunting for its identity. The last 30-minutes of the writing is perhaps the worst it could possibly get.

Sick is perhaps the nearest word that comes to mind looking at the movies churned out by YRF factory. Does anybody even bother to look at the statistics in there - hello? I wouldn't be surprised would beg their lucky mascot to salvage the Titanic. Its quite apt to quote Scar's words from The Lion King " I'm surrounded by idiots!".

PS: Siddhart Anand in his "Bachna Ae Haseeno" paid homage to the self- obsessed producers "one & only and never again will be" movie and guess what? He was instantly rewarded with another movie. Well Mr. Anurag Singh no harm in counting the chickens before the eggs hatch. Adi - grow up boy!

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Good entertainment, 4 October 2009
9/10
Author: ketaki-dutta from United States

I do not know why this movie got only 5.0. I personally liked the movie. Its a good, light-hearted movie with a known theme but a new message in it. Instead of blatant India/ Pakistan match, its about sex and gender. Surprisingly Rani looked good with Shahid (I was skeptical about it at first)..it was really nice to see this unexpected couple. Though this movie is a remake of the movie "She is the Man", I enjoyed myself thoroughly. Anupam Kher, Dilip Tahil, Poonam Dhillon were in cameos, but they did justice to their roles. I have no idea why this movie is rated so less, I really liked this movie. It's short, simple, feel-good family movie, to be enjoyed with a packet of popcorn. I would ask everyone to go and watch this movie. I am sure you will not be disappointed.

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A Sixer!, 13 September 2009
Author: mathur_7 from Canada

I have to admit i did not have a lot of expectations going for this film because it looked like it was going to be a tried and tested formula trying to be another chak de India or lagaan. However this film was VERY entertaining, great acting, great dance, great songs and the film was very energetic. If you like masala bhangra fun type movies go for this one-its very JOKEY amazing i just saw it today at Roy Thomson hall i was fortunate enough to be part of the first ever audience in the world to see it. All in all a very entertaining film which is a tribute to what bollywood is all about, some fabulous acting by rani and shahid who shine in their respective roles and a film that will want you to get out of your seat and say 'Dil bole hadippa!"

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Dil Nahin Bole Hadippa!, 13 November 2009
3/10
Author: namashi_1 from India

Yash & Aditya Chopra are Legends in their own right. They have made some of Bollywood's finest films. But when you see their latest flick 'Dil Bole Hadippa', which has been produced by them... You actually sit and think is this film really produced by these guys? Being a fan of both, I am hugely disappointed.

Hollywood flick 'She's The Man' vs 'Dil Bole Hadippa'... who wins? Hadipaa would lose hands down! I would love to ask Anurag Singh one simple question? How did you okay this script, and what did you like about it?

Shahid still has a SRK hang-up. 'Kaminey' was a milestone, right? Watch him in 'Dil Bole Hadippa' and you'll be disheartened. Rani tries hard, it's really sad to see a talented actress like being reduced to such roles and films. Anupam Kher and Dalip Tahil have nothing to do.

Those 3 stars are only and only for Sherlyn Chopra. She looks hot throughout.

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DBH deserves to be run out without facing a ball, 23 September 2009
3/10
Author: aman_nanda55 from United States

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I checked DBH out against my best instincts. To be honest, I was lulled into it by a masterful Shahid performance in Kaminey. I was so wrong.

The movie is terrible in terms of pretty much everything except Kapoor - who is reduced to playing a supporting role.

Everything else is way below average in this movie. The script is typical YRF fare with a utopian Punjabi theme with its cast of annoying characters. The movie caters to romantic refugee notions of Indo-Pak friendship centered around an annual cricket game. The game is played by teams sponsored by two old friends who learnt to play cricket and woo girls at the same time in pre-partition Punjab played by Anupam Kher (India) and Dilip Tahil (Pakistan).

However, even assuming the dudes were 15 in 1947, they would be 77 now. However, both of them look like they are in their early 60s - and one has even managed to score a ravishing, if estranged, Poonam Dhillon for a wife. That anomaly aside, the sporting nature of the contest is tarnished because the Pakistani side keeps winning - and is led by an arrogant captain. Shockingly, he gets his comeuppance at the end.

So Kher invites his England-bred son (Kapoor) to construct a team worthy of representing the India pind (village). Unbenkownst to them, a superstar lives in their midst - only it's a girl (Rani Mukherjee, who else). She routinely challenges men and hits them for 6 sixes without pads, gloves (a cup was not necessary for obvious reasons), helmet while still in her salwar kameez. She also introduces the concept of switch-hitting to cricket - 5 sixes right-handed and 1 left-handed!!! (Anyone who follows cricket probably knows that this has happened about 4-5 times in all forms of cricket. So I am not even going into the credibility of the cricket action in this movie.) At the same time she manages to provide support for a local drama company singing, dancing and doing sundry back-stage tasks. Quite the ambidextrous all-rounder you would think already. But there's more.

The young scion wants to set up a cricket team from scratch. Rani predictably shows up as a woman first but is denied entry much the same way Gandhi was tossed from the train in Petermaritzburg. Only this is Bollywood, so they show a procession with a Goddess passing by and all the men bow her heads to her while treating Rani like an outcast. Oh the ironic tragedy! So given her acting prowess, Rani transforms her Veera into Veer with the help of facial hair and contact lenses. Given her 6-hitting talent, she makes the team after a minor hiccup. However, when she is Veera, she keeps making an impression on the young NRI Kapoor who is also being wooed by a short-skirted bimbo who does not know her Indian (agri)-culture. Obviously, the earthy Rani wins his still Indian heart.

Anyway, romance blossoms over a couple of Punjabi songs and we are on to the match. All goes well until Rani takes a blinder of a catch by Indian standards and everyone jumps on her. At this point a contact lens falls out and is noticed by Shahid who loses it, allowing the opposition to get from 46/5 to 216 in about 12 overs! Quite the meltdown - and a phenomenal run rate. I am sure some of the viewers (anyone with an IQ above 45) will wonder how he wasn't able to tell the difference before given that Rani makes no effort in voice modulation or even covering up her figure. And suddenly when the lens fell out, all was clear!

So of course, Rani isn't allowed to open the batting, and it is left to an impassioned father-son bonding moment over the drinks break with 8 wickets down to retrieve the situation. It ends with a rousing speech that does little for women's lib and even less for the movie.

I gave the movie 3 stars out of 10 - mostly for Shahid who holds his end up with a Dravid-like performance. Rani has a couple of moments, but fizzles out in trying to dominate the movie - a la Sreesanth. She is terribly miscast as a Punjabi girl - much like the fast bowler from Kerala. Kher plays the YRF Punjabi father perfectly. Although, he has had tons of practice. The rest of the supporting cast has little to do.

The script and direction are both terrible. Every time Rani bats, we are subjected to "Ek Onkar". As a Punjabi, I found it extremely patronizing and almost offensive. And this is just one nugget. The juxtaposition of the mini-skirted bimbo vs. the rustic salwar kameez hearkens back to the days of Manoj Kumar. All we needed was an evil vamp who was divorced (OMG, the stigma!) who had convinced Dhillon to leave her husband who had actually broken his promise - not on stamp paper though.

The dialog writers should start seeking alternative employment almost immediately - although I suspect they already have day jobs. The conversations in the movie are banal and lack any sort of genuine Punjabi flavor. Even Love Aajkal - a masterpiece by comparison, but a terrible movie when viewed absolutely - had more convincing Punjabi dialog.

All in all, the movie doesn't know what's going on or what it's supposed to be. Much like the Indian team from the late 90s. If you are looking for a cricket movie, go watch Iqbal or Lagaan. If you're looking for a Punjabi-centric movie, go watch Oye Lucky or even Singh is Kinnnnng. However, if you are in that masochistic frame of mind, do go watch DBH - for 10 minutes. Any more and you could actually harm body and mind. Make sure you have a safe word and a seat close to the exit.

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Yashraj need to change, 21 October 2009
1/10
Author: silvan-desouza from India

Yash raj films supposedly the biggest house in film-making but sadly their films churned out are mostly craps

This is another of their crap films look at the promos itself You can predict the story

The same ganne ke khet, same punjab, same Dhols

What is new?

A girl dressed like a guy? that is copied from an English film , She's The Man, which is taken from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night.

The film however is as boring as ever

Poor Rani tries hard to comeback with a change sadly she fails even her bikini act is cold and her guy act is better but she does annoy at places

Also the biggest flaw is how come people don't come to know it's a girl even when they hug? also the love story and the Rakhi Sawant and Sherlyn Chopra track is badly handled

Also the end is so fake

Nothing works

Direction by Anurag Singh is bad Music is bad

Amongst cast Shahid just does a walk on in the film, nothing compared to KAMINEY Maybe he wanted to do a YRF film to get a hit but sadly it failed Rani tries hard and does impress as the guy in parts but she could work on her vocal chords to suit the man She should leave Yash Chopra's films now Amongst rest Rakhi Sawant and Sherlyn are as usual A headache

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My favourite movie of 2009, 9 October 2009
10/10
Author: Shani kapur

This has got to be the best movie for 2009 hands down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was So funny, fun , entertaining ,romantic. Its a movie for everyone. So if you like comedy it has a lot of that. If you like sports it has that. If you like romance it has that too and if you like a couple looking really good together you got it!!!!

1. Shahid and Rani look So So So So good together!!!!!!! The best couple ever!!!! 2. Rani was so funny and entertaining. 3. Shahid was so hot and played his character just right. 4. GREAT songs.

And

5. If you have not seen it.......... Go and watch it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This movie doesn't deserve a 5 it deserves 20!

10 stars man!!!

10 Stars!

In one week i watched it more than 20 times!!! it is so good!!!!

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A childish attempt to fool a Cricketing Nation., 2 October 2009
2/10
Author: bobbysing from India

The day I saw the first promo of "Dil Bole Hadippa" few months back, my only words were "Oh God! not again". Because once more there was a movie based on Punjab and Cricket with a talented coach having tons of attitude, along with a girl trying to deceive in a very ill suited "Sikh Getup" which was not convincing at all from any angle in the frame. I even kept wondering why on earth this thought was used again by the same camp which earlier gave us a brilliant "Chakk De India" made on a similar format.

And now after sitting through the whole movie today, I exactly feel the same again and was even more disappointed by the final product presented. The movie couldn't change my thoughts even slightly as it has nothing new to offer in any departments technically or creatively. From the first scene itself you are served silly sequences in the name of cricket where both the bowler and the batsman don't know anything other than just the ball crossing the boundary. The story is completely predictable from the promos itself where a girl poses as a boy to play in a match against the rival team (which is strangely an unofficial team from Lahore, Pakistan) and you are simply offered all repetitive scenes every minute in the movie without any specific entertainment or novelty.

As an overall review, I would simply like to mention a few (silly) points here about the movie, which will give you a concrete idea of the project and it's below average content:

1. It starts with a sequence where Rani (who specializes in hitting sixes) is scoring 6 sixes in a row to a bowler who is supposed to be a well known Ranji player (Domestic First Class Cricket Championship in India) and he doesn't know how to try 6 different bowls in an over. Quite a silly start!

2. In the next scene, at one end, Rani is praying to play for India in 2011 World Cup whereas Anupam Kher and Dilip Tahil are still talking about 40 years of our Independence. A good two decade jump in two consecutive scenes.

3. In the tense atmosphere prevailing between India & Pakistan from decades, the director shows two local teams playing unofficial cricket every six months in a stadium without any cricketing official or security agencies in sight.

4. These two old time friends come with their respective teams at Wagah Border (Original Location) where there is no security officials, no military men of either sides and no official cricket authority on the location from the State, Center or Local Government.

5. There is an overuse of deliberate Punjabi language and Devotional Sikh "Mool Mantra" coming many times in the movie inspired by the best version of the Mantra earlier heard in "Rang De Basanti". The director uses it purposely to give the movie a more authentic feel but the move falls flat.

6. Rani's real identity also gets revealed in a cliché scene where Shahid catches her changing clothes in a men washroom. Nothing new!

7. In a poorly conceived climax match, the Indian players are shown getting out childishly. It seems as if Shahid kept the coaching only for him and Rani alone and the rest were simply left out of the training camps.

8. The director didn't do his research on the finer details of Cricket and its rules. In the last ball, Rani changes her stance from right to left hand. A player can only do so after seeking the permission of the on-field Umpires and also informing the rival captain, so that he can change the field settings. But here Rani just changes the stance ignoring all the rules of the game.

9. There seems to be no problems of Visa and Passport for anyone featuring in the movie.(as if it was a match between India & Nepal)

10. In the climax, a very silly argument is given by Rani on the stage, saying that both girls and boys should be allowed to play Cricket together as a Mixed Team. Was this supposed to be innovative writing?

Performance wise Rani makes a desperate attempt to strike back but sadly focuses on a wrong project. She tries hard and also impresses in her Man-Act, but the badly written and poorly directed movie lets her down. I also couldn't understand how she approved the awful get up, which was a complete disaster all the way. Shahid does nothing, other than showing his pricey attitude. After "Kaminey", he disappoints big time. There is no love chemistry between Rani and Shahid in their scenes together.

Sherlyn Chopra simply flaunts her fab body. Surprisingly Rakhi Sawant gets more shouts than Rani in her opening scene and she really has the right dancing moves better than many lead artists in the industry. Anupam Kher, Dilip Tahil and Poonam Dhillon have played the parts allotted to them perfectly.

Musically, the soundtrack has a huge Punjabi hangover. A few songs are catchy but they don't have the original Punjabi feel, vocals and arrangement. Cinematography is nothing extraordinary. Background Score is completely based on Dhol and Punjabi sounds but gets repetitive after the initial scenes.

Collectively it's a light movie based on cricket with too many loopholes and faults in its direction. Anurag Singh chose an absolutely worn-out theme and also didn't work on the finer details of the sport. He carelessly tries to fool a "Cricketing Nation" where people eat, drink and live cricket. In fact, the movie reminded me one of the first (childish) movies made on Cricket titled "All-Rounder" and I think that says all about my views on "Dil Bole Hadippa".

In few words, I wasn't expecting such a weak movie from the makers of "Chakk De India".

(Originally Posted at www.bobbytalkscinema.com)

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