By BollywoodMDB Team - Nov 30, -0001 05:53 AM

Rating: 2.5/5

Dulha Mil Gaya is a stale and slow film which hardly has anything new to give to the audience.

Let me tell you why Dulha Mil Gaya is so stale.

Its producer Vivek Waswani started this film almost 3 years back. He was very desperate to rope Shah Rukh Khan in his film at least in a guest role. Shah Rukh Khan is a man who has always obliged his friends. Producer Vivek Waswani had helped SRK find his feet when the latter was a struggler. Thus SRK promised to do his film but he couldn't give time for almost 2 years due to his prior commitments or whatsoever.

But the surprising thing about the film is that Vivek Waswani completed the rest of the film and waited for Shah Rukh Khan to act in his film. Last year when he requested Shah Rukh Khan to finish his role as his film was pending to release due to absence of his presence. So finally Shah Rukh Khan gave his dates and shot for the film.

So now you can well imagine why the film looks so dull and Shah Rukh Khan's scenes mismatched.

Well! Not only is this the drawback of the film. Its story and screenplay too are its major drawbacks. There is hardly any new thing to watch in this film. The story seems to be taken from so many past films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge; Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi; Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye; Khoon Bhari Maang etc.

The star cast is good. Stars like Fardeen Khan, Shah Rukh Khan; Sushmita Sen; Parikshit Shahni, Johny lever are present there and you could have got a nice movie to watch but it is not up to the mark. The debutant director Mudassar Aziz has failed to present the film in an interesting way. But it's not just his fault. The story of Vivek Waswani is a merge of romance and comedy, clearly drawing bits and pieces from staple Bollywood masala. And its co-writer Muddassar Aziz has also penned the script, who borrows from the past, going for the tried-and-tested stuff, but the narrative, already low on fuel, comes to a grinding halt by the time it reaches its finale.

The film opens in Trinidad with a spoilt brat son, who hopes to inherit millions from his deceased father's estate. Fardeen khan plays the spoilt brat, Tej Dhanraj, also known as Donsai, which is slang for dollar in Trinidad. This is the kind of man who picks up a woman from the water while he's water-skiing and blows-up 10 million dollars a year. Fardeen's father, a billionaire has left behind a will saying that if he doesn't chasten up and marry a girl of his family's choice from Punjab, he'll lose his inheritance. To keep the money, Fardeen marries the village belle.

He then leaves his new wife back in the village and returns alone to Trinidad where he continues with his wild, partying ways.

His wife Samrpreet (Ishita) turns out to be a little tiger and follows him to Trinidad on a wing and a song and finally meets him, where she naturally gets thrown out and equally naturally is taken by Sushmita under her wing, who starts a self improvement course in making Samarpreet into Samara. And with the help of her love PRG (Shah Rukh Khan), she gets the young married couple reunited.

What saves this film from complete disappointment is Sushmita Sen, who in a stroke of casting genius, plays an exaggerated version of herself, delivering an inspired performance as the snootiest, ditziest diva with the funniest lines you can think of.

Otherwise, all the characters in the film are flat and one-dimensional. Fardeen Khan, the playboy, has fared well in comic situations with his earlier hits such as Heyy Babyy and No Entry. But his performance here can't be compared to those. He has gained a lot of weight and appears bloated in most scenes. The weight gain hasn't just affected his appearance; his gait too is more suitable to that of a middle-aged man rather than a dashing playboy.

SRK plays a millionaire whose only desire is to see Sushmita smile. There is one sequence where he jumps off a cruise liner to rescue a toy dog. Shah Rukh Khan makes an appearance towards the end of a karwa chauth song and how one wishes at least he could have forestalled the foreseeable resemblance between his two consecutive releases. Candyfloss continues with a tinge of forced patriotism as the heroine counterattacks the illusion of Indian woman not being career-oriented saying, "India ki ladkiyan sau karod ghar chalati hai ".

However SRK is completely wasted in the film even though he tries hard to liven up the screen with his presence.

To give the credit where it's due, DULHA MIL GAYA has some interesting moments, but the problem is they are few and far between.

Mudassar Aziz's dialogues are not funny and doesn't get the comic spirit right!

Performance-wise Sushmita Sen has inconsistent comic timing but looks absolutely gorgeous.

Fardeen does a good job, especially towards the end when he's about to confess something vital to Ishita.

Newcomer Ishitta Sharma appears convincing as the soft-spoken rural Punjabi girl. Unfortunately, she lacks the oomph factor which is so necessary for her character in the second half of the film. Despite this obvious flaw, she remains one of the most convincing characters.

Shah Rukh Khan doesn't rise above the regular in his extended cameo. Johnny Lever is wasted in an inconsequential serious role. Mohit Chadha has screen presence, but gets no scope.

Cinematography is not up to the mark in some scenes. As it's obvious that the film took many years to be completed so there are scenes where Sushmita Sen and Fardeen look slim but in the very next sequence, their physical appearance changes drastically. An experienced cinematographer could easily avoid these pitfalls; this is not the first film which took over three years to be completed. But the lighting and cinematography is easily the tackiest one has seen in recent times.

Even assistant directors didn't pay attention in the continuity.

The music of Lalit Pandit is a mixed variety. 'Akela Dil' is groovy, while the title track is strictly okay.

Overall the films would neither freshen your mind nor entertain you. However it won't even bore you. So if you miss your favourite film but need to watch any movie for your time-pass, you can go for it!