Kill Dil (2014)

The greatest movie ever made..!

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Lost script, refreshing dialogs and plenty of melodrama, typical Yash Raj, Kill Dil had everything that a bollywood masala movie must have except for the X-Factor of the selective stars, maybe the aura of the legends that makes inconsequentially ordinary films work like charm. Songs were interesting, but you don't go watching films to listen to songs do you, we do not anymore live in the 60s and 70s Ali Zafar remains in a freeze on his Pakistani TV Series style of acting and a monotonous and now quite boring dialog delivery, he seems to be a fish out of the water with every passing film. Hasn't Ranveer Singh been playing the same typical roles in last 3-4 movies of his? He is as monotonous as Ali Zafar, in everything including his limited skill- sets in acting. Parineeti Chopra rules this film, though her disinclination for this project in evident in her performance. And last but not the least Govinda, he manages to inspire almost nothing trying to play Grey shades, he summoned awe in Shikari, somewhat, this character though was clueless and confused. Director is the one to be blamed, but hey its a Yash Raj films, you must not expect direction as such. The film lost me with its pace, continuity and story-line, not to mention the cinematography was as pathetic. Characters were not properly designed thus lousy portrayed. Ali Zafar's was the aimless most in the lot.

This may be just another old story packaged and presented anew..but, it is way better than the happy new year's or the ram Leela's. I enjoyed the movie from the word go. True, it had way too many songs and the second half crumbled..but shaad Ali has made a decent movie. It was a tribute to the Tarantino style of movie making..not a copy. Performance wise, the two actors that stood out..were govinda and Ali zafar. Ranveer singh was good but with Ali zafar sharing screen space, I wasn't able to focus on ranveer. His baritone, swag and expressions were superb. Govinda was fabulous as the menacing bhaiyyaji. Parineeti tried too hard. And it came through. Her roles was also written badly. The ending was terrible though. It was one of those mass pleasers and did not fit in with the rest of the twisted story. Ali zafar's character was suddenly reduced to a bungling idiot at the end. I still give this movie a 8..for me it was way way better than the illogical masala potboilers our directors keep churning out without an iota of creativity, story or fresh appeal.

From the first look of its promo, Kill Dill brought an implicit association with the Quentin Tarantino brand of pulp fiction - heroes in cool leather jackets and dark sunglasses, slow-mo gunshots against a pale-yellow textured template, sly humor, whistle score akin to cowboys genre and an undercurrent of gleeful violence that runs through the narrative.And with an interesting line-up of actors , it appeared as if director Shaadi Ali was in a serious attempt to resurrect his image after the disastrous Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.Despite a promising start and a premise ripe with potential,Kill Dill fizzes out like a con cracker.Set in the hinterland, somewhere in the Delhi-NCR suburbs, it tells the story of two friends, Dev(Ranveer Singh) and Tutu(Ali Zafar) who are raised by the grizzly don, Bhaiyaji(Govinda)when he finds these two orphans lying in a garbage dump , to become contract shooters.Without much of insights, we are given glimpses of the camaraderie between these two boys and their fetish for bullets and beer.Shaad establishes the fact they have a tough exterior but soft at heart.All is well till Dev falls in love with the vivacious Disha(Parineeti Chopra) who rehabilitates criminals for a career but is oblivious of Dev's tinted past.Conscience hits Dev and he decides to abandon the world of crime, which doesn't go well with Bhaiyaji.Should I go ahead with the plot? Well,its a pure cliché, which is churned into a cauldron of romance, ample naach-gaana,daru-shaaru and action.A lot of energy is infused by the flamboyant Ranveer who proves his mettle at comedy yet again with terrific one-liners.He is ably armed with the perky and piquant Parineeti who is effortless as far as the acting chops go , but crippled with outrageous styling and ill-sketched characterization.A series of SMS exchanges between the duo provides genuine 'LOL' moments.Equally noteworthy is the job interview sequence which lands Ranveer up in desperation to crack.Ali Zafar provides the balancing act here with his self-restrain while Govinda makes a praise-worthy comeback in a negative role.In fact, with the catchy soundtracks ( Shankar-Ehsaan- Loy)and the veteran's signature steps, it does manage to keep you in the groove.In spite of all these positives, Kill Dill is muddled with a hackneyed script and over-simplistic treatment which doesn't give any depth to the characters and you know you are tricked only when it ends abruptly , after running a little more than two hours.If you want to know my verdict, I would label it as another Yashraj flick with an infamous 'style over substance' tag.Rating :2.5/5

its an excellent movie yes there are things which one would relate to the 90s,but whats the harm in 90s.In 90s we had some of the best movies released. what do you look in a Hindi movie entertainment? songs? story? comedy? actors? this movie has everything its a complete masala movie,the songs are superb,gulzar saab and SEL are superb,the comedy in the movie actually makes u laugh and not like non sense comedy which we see in movies now a days and then they make 200 crores its much better than that 200 crore movies actors are good in the movie and fit their bill. this movie is a must watch movie every1 needs to see this movie,u will rarely see a movie which has combination of super music,amazing lyrics,good story,very good acting,and some sense making comedy. well done YRF and Shaad Ali