Rating : 3/5
Cast: Govinda, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta
Director: David Dhawan
Music: Sajid-Wajid
At the marquee, the two hero movie continues to flourish. After the arty Bong Connection about two Bengali boys in foreign lands and the lukewarm Bobby Deol – Akshaye Khanna thriller Naqaab, we have the ultimate buddy flick: Partner with Salman Khan and Govinda.
Like Yash Chopra, director David Dhawan has also created his own school of film. It’s called DND cinema. DND stands for dimag nikal ke dekho, which basically means that you leave your brains at home while watching a David film. And with it, you leave behind any questions of logic, dramatic consistency and character motivation. All you want out of a David Dhawan film is a good time.
Parts of Partner are a rollicking good time. The film is a copy of the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch. Salman Khan reprises Wills Smith's role of a date doctor, here called the Love Guru. The love guru solves mysteries of the heart advising guys how to win the girl of their dreams. But he is a true romantic who won’t work with men looking only for one-night stands.
The love guru embarks on his career’s most challenging case: Bhaskar Deewakar Chaudhary a portly, clumsy, superbly geeky financial advisor who is in love with the boss’s angelic daughter. Bhaskar is, as the love guru says, boredom aur bewakufi ka brand ambassador. While she is a luminous creature, sitting on a company worth Rs 1000 crore. It’s an impossible match that the love guru makes possible.
As long as David Dhawan and his writers stick to Hitch, Partner is great fun. The dialogues by Sanjay Chhel are funny, the songs are slick music videos and the actors are having a great time. Salman Khan is, as always, the ultimate rock star actor. He preens and pouts as the camera caresses his well-oiled muscles. Govinda, podgy and supremely uncool is the perfect foil for him. The chemistry between them and Govinda’s outstanding comic timing keeps the first half of the film moving nicely.
But the second half meanders too much into the love guru’s own uninteresting love angle, the heiresses’ controlling father and a kid who is more annoying than cute. There’s also some singularly unfunny homophobic jokes and at one stage, the love guru declares: Career woman ke saath kabhi pyar nahin karna chaiye aur who bhi journalist se. That’s probably not going to score any points with women in the media.
Hitch was a charming romantic comedy. It had wit and intelligence. Partner is its tapori version. But I recommend that you see it only to experience the sheer genius of Govinda. He is truly Hero no 1.
Director: David Dhawan
Music: Sajid-Wajid
At the marquee, the two hero movie continues to flourish. After the arty Bong Connection about two Bengali boys in foreign lands and the lukewarm Bobby Deol – Akshaye Khanna thriller Naqaab, we have the ultimate buddy flick: Partner with Salman Khan and Govinda.
Like Yash Chopra, director David Dhawan has also created his own school of film. It’s called DND cinema. DND stands for dimag nikal ke dekho, which basically means that you leave your brains at home while watching a David film. And with it, you leave behind any questions of logic, dramatic consistency and character motivation. All you want out of a David Dhawan film is a good time.
Parts of Partner are a rollicking good time. The film is a copy of the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch. Salman Khan reprises Wills Smith's role of a date doctor, here called the Love Guru. The love guru solves mysteries of the heart advising guys how to win the girl of their dreams. But he is a true romantic who won’t work with men looking only for one-night stands.
The love guru embarks on his career’s most challenging case: Bhaskar Deewakar Chaudhary a portly, clumsy, superbly geeky financial advisor who is in love with the boss’s angelic daughter. Bhaskar is, as the love guru says, boredom aur bewakufi ka brand ambassador. While she is a luminous creature, sitting on a company worth Rs 1000 crore. It’s an impossible match that the love guru makes possible.
As long as David Dhawan and his writers stick to Hitch, Partner is great fun. The dialogues by Sanjay Chhel are funny, the songs are slick music videos and the actors are having a great time. Salman Khan is, as always, the ultimate rock star actor. He preens and pouts as the camera caresses his well-oiled muscles. Govinda, podgy and supremely uncool is the perfect foil for him. The chemistry between them and Govinda’s outstanding comic timing keeps the first half of the film moving nicely.
But the second half meanders too much into the love guru’s own uninteresting love angle, the heiresses’ controlling father and a kid who is more annoying than cute. There’s also some singularly unfunny homophobic jokes and at one stage, the love guru declares: Career woman ke saath kabhi pyar nahin karna chaiye aur who bhi journalist se. That’s probably not going to score any points with women in the media.
Hitch was a charming romantic comedy. It had wit and intelligence. Partner is its tapori version. But I recommend that you see it only to experience the sheer genius of Govinda. He is truly Hero no 1.
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