Dil Dosti Deewangi Marathi Movie Review: This murder mystery lacks entertainment quotient

DIL DOSTI DEEWANGI (Marathi)

Producer- Rajendra Rajan

Director- Shirish Rane

Cast- Chirag Patil, Smita Gondkar, Kashyap Parulekar, Veena Jagtap, Pradeep Welankar and Vidyadhar Joshi

Platform of Release- Theatres

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By Jyothi Venkatesh

The film sets out to revolve around the bitter sweet lives of a group of close friends who turn upside down when friendship evolves into love and they have to choose between the two. Rahul Kamat (Chirag Patil), Shriya Jog (Veena Jagtap) and Riya (Smita Gondkar) study in the same college and are close friends.

Though everyone in the college is aware of the fact that Rahul is in love with Shriya, Shriya, who considers Rahul a close friend, is unaware of Rahul’s love for her. A new student, Aditya Sabnis (Kashyap Parulekar), joins college. Both, Shriya and Riya, fall in love with Aditya. Aditya is such a conscientious boy that it is only after Rahul lies to Aditya that there is no love for Shriya from his side that he (Aditya) reciprocates Shriya’s love and then the confusions unfold in their lives, one after the other.

Aditya gets married to Shriya but they both are murdered when they go for their honeymoon to Rahul’s hotel in Goa. The mystery gets solved at the anniversary celebrations of Rahul’s hotel, where Shriya’s father (Pradeep Welankar) is also present. There is another shock which the invitees at the anniversary party have to contend with since Michael Braganza (Vidyadhar Joshi), who has made all the arrangements for the party, has a daughter, Saniya, who looks exactly like Shriya.

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Chirag Patil does a fair job as Rahul Kamat, while Veena Jagtap is alright as Shriya Jog. Kashyap Parulekar is okay as Aditya Sabnis. However, it is Smita Gondkar who does a splendid job as Riya. Pradeep Welankar lends average support as Shriya’s father, while Smita Jayakar is okay in a brief role as Aditya’s mother.

Vidyadhar Joshi acts ably as Michael Braganza. Tapan Acharya has his moments as Pratik. Vijay Patkar (as Prof. Patkar) and Surekha Kudchi have hardly any role worth mentioning. The highlights of the film are Sonali-Uday’s music, lyrics by Abhijit Joshi and Sanjay Warang and Phulawa Khamkar and Rajesh Bidwe’s choreography. While Dhananjay Kulkarni’s cinematography is up to the mark, Amol Khanvilkar’s editing ought to have been slicker.

To sum up, Deepak Tarkar has written a childish story as well as an amateurish screenplay. Because of the gaping holes in the drama, the entertainment quotient never really rises to any appreciable level and the audience just will not at all be able to connect with the unfolding drama after a point of time.