Diwali movie reviews – Do Knot Disturb

I did not deserve this. I’m not a bad person. Why God, why? I just wanted to give every Diwali movie a fighting chance and ended up losing 2 hours and 25 minutes of my life forever. David Dhawan-Govinda team used to be so good at slapstick comedy and now they have redefined that genre into a piece of film making with screaming, squealing, incomprehensible dialogues. All that the viewer could make out from the speakers was noise and lots of it.

Govinda was at his comic worst in Do Knot Disturb and Riteish Deshmukh had no clue as to what’s going on. He tried to make something out of this mess and in the process made it messier. Sohail Khan dropped in once in a while with the cry boobie-punk act which was probably the only palatable performance. Rajpal Yadav is wasted with another overacting part.

Coming to the ladies, Sushmita Sen should join a gym and fix an appointment with a beautician or a plastic surgeon. She looked downright disastrous in this outing and I seriously doubt whether the costume designer had some serious ill-will towards the once-dazzling actress. As for Lara, she was the only saving grace with her looks – killer as always. But the comic timing that she is known for was nowhere in sight.

The movie wound up with another silly climax to be added to the long list of silly climaxes in comedy movie history. All right, point noted that it’s a comedy movie and it should be silly. But shouldn’t there be some kind of a sense of satisfaction before the curtain falls, that it was a fun-filled two and a half hours? It did not happen in this case.

I should have listened to what the poster on the theatre door said – Do (K)not Disturb.