Review Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal- Footloose!

Review of Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal’s main fault is that it arrived after Chak de. So it gives you a déjà vu feeling. There is not much you can do with a sport subject. You have no other option but to show the underdog getting it right in the finale. In the beginning you can show feelings of aspiration, remorse, frustration, despair only to change into joy and triumph in the end. That is what Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal does.

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal plays to the field but unfortunately it deviates from its main course (some thing which Chak de never did) and goes astray. There are some flaws which stick out like sore thumbs in Goal. However to the movie’s credit, the film is yet another attempt to create something different and there are some brilliant scenes and moments in Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal. If not for the mistakes in Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal whose flaws unfortunately exceed its plus points, the movie would have been great.

First the plus points:

1. Scenes: There are some good moments in the film. The John Abraham and Arshad Warsi confrontation is good. Seems like John was stealing the thunder from Arshad Wasi, as the latter did from John in Escape from Taliban. Boman Irani’s inspiring roar to his team mates, a Chak De déjà moment is brilliant. And so is the ‘TV channel ‘ comic scene. The final on the field scenes in the football field are magnificently shot, especially the final ‘Goal’ is a stealer.

2. Performances: John Abraham never looked better. He is quite convincing as a footballer and plays his part very well. This is a role which he has liked the most, in his career and John surely delivers here. Boman Irani is good too, he looks like he is made to do authoritative roles.

The minus points:

Lots of them:

1. ‘Its my color isn’t it?’ protests John Abraham when he is ousted from the selection for the UK football team. This really looks lame, considering UK football is known to be the most tolerant in the world. Since John Abraham is shown to be the most outstanding player getting revenue for the team, it really looks silly for the goras to check him out just for the color of his skin. They could have instead shown John Abraham being let off because of indiscipline considering his character was on these lines rather than show the ‘skin’ thing.
2. The Asian players are said to be born and bred in the UK. Funny all of them speak Bambaiya Hindi.
3. Towards the end of the game, John Abraham is shown to be hit on the nose, bleeding profusely. Yet he continues with the game when there are orders to take him off the field. This is practically not possible, injured players are not allowed to play. Period. A total filmi scene!
4. John Abraham signs a contract which forbids him to play for Southhall but then sense pervades in him and he comes back in the final. How can you leave the contract, which you have signed and come back? Arent there any clauses in the contract? Again a filmi scene! I don’t know why movies like Tara ra rum pum and Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal put a stupid filmi scene in the end which breaks all barriers of common sense?
5. The item number in the middle of the movie was crappy to the core- in terms of music, video and choreography. The director could have put some scenes instead of distracting people with this lousy number
6. The wet Dhoom 2 scene where Boman Irani challenges John Abraham is long and very amateurishly directed. Looks like a scene from a B-grade movie. Check out repeat shots of Boman Irani throwing his hands up after every 2 minutes..Arrgghh!
7. The rest of the 8 players apart from John,Arshad and Raj Zutsi have nothing to do in the film. They just fill the number quotient in the team and have no character definition, something which was beautifully done in Chak-De. By the way Bipasha Basu is not even an eye-candy in this film. She just attends to the nose which John keeps breaking.

Rating: 3/5(average)