Dilwale movie review
Director: Rohit Shetty Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan, Kriti Santo In a landmark 1996 essay titled The Decay of Cinema, Susan Sontag lamented the state of cinema at the end of the century. She wrote that “commercial cinema has settled for a policy of bloated, derivative filmmaking, a brazen combinatory or recombinatory art in the hope of reproducing past successes.” Sontag clearly anticipated Rohit Shetty’s Dilwale . Even in the context of Shetty’s oeuvre, Dilwale is a low. It made me nostalgic for Chennai Express . I didn’t go in expecting anything more than a good time. Because Rohit and leading man Shah Rukh Khan have clearly positioned Dilwale as a masala entertainer. Which means that we must not expect logic, coherence, characters or depth. I’ve made my peace with that. My grouse is that I didn’t even have fun. The highlight of the film was Sanjay Mishra calling Mukesh Tiwari ‘Gareebon ka Jackie Shroff’. Through the film, characters keep sayi