Review: Hudd Hudd Dabangg

Thank you Dim for writing such a brilliant review :D

The movie started and I thought it was going to be Ishqiya meets Peepli-concocted-live. They show behinds of two young boys in the morning in a khet, sitting with their bare behinds with their backs to each other and talking about the sweetest thing in the world. Makkhi-the-dimwit says Mangoes, Chulbul-the-musclewit says Sugarcane and thats what he is going to grow on all the land that his father owns in the village when he grows up. But the sad reality is explained to him by his overacting-dimply-why-are-you-in-this-movie-mother that he can't enjoy all the rights and love of his dad because he is his step-son. The ever-frowning-hating-on-his-son Pandeyji senior treats him like a servant and refuses to get his kundali read by a pandit and the Rockstar Pandey decides to put the kundali through the desi paper shredder out of anger :

And then he grows up. Apparently he is smarter than the dimwit and has landed up as an inspector in his very own village. Pandey Sr. is no longer rich, has no property - so thankfully no grown up Pandeys sitting with their bare behinds in the khet talking about mangoes. Then enters not frame, not Pandey but Salman Khan - the gorgeous hunk who has regained his looks and lost the extra kilos. He beats some bank robbers and steals all their money. Point to note here besides the awesome caller tune dancing was that there were barrels of oil spilled and Salman and the goons were all covered with a thick oil layer during the fight sequence but the moment he stepped out of the warehouse, he was absolutely clean with a creasefree pant-shirt. Salute the miracles of movie making. Now Salman Pandey becomes an eyesore for Chedi Singh because he is taking away all of his funds that his party members raise by looting the banks. SO he rightfully hates on him. Om Puri is Sonu Sood's inconsequential sidekick and is there for exactly 4 scenes, god knows why. Rajjo/Erotta enters the scene dring one of the police-goon chases through the town. Now here is one gorgeous creature. She looked really nice in the song sequences, but didn't have much of a role. She has two emotions to portray, appear mad or cry in the songs; did both of them rather well. The love track between her was short and cute - the best part about the movie. There is Arbaaz Khan too whose character drives the movie forward. There is Mahi Gill playing his girlfriend, she comes free with all Kashyap-related movies. Anupam is there too who gets blown up in the movie. Dimple is mercifully killed - thank you Sonu. Vinod Khanna is almost on the deathbed, but is brought back by Salman Pandey =( This whole saga culminates with a gladiator style fight with the two Pandeys avenging their mom's death by suffocating poor Sonu to death. I now know why Aamir promoted this movie. It has a message which is repeated through the movie. First when Salman shoots one of his consteble so that he can get a promotion, he is unable to use his left hand anymore and Salman comments that its good, he can't eat tobacco/tambaku anymore. Dimple is shown panting with an inhaler and then Sonu is suffocated to death. So the message --> tobacco/smoking is injurious to health. All in all, a good timepass movie. Salman Pandey rocks, the way he flips the shades rajni style was ishtylish, the killer bod, the walk, the talk make you not bother about the reshht and the nexsht much. I guess the experience is different when you watch a movie in a hall with lots of whistling and noise and clapping at dialogues as opposed to a quiet one.