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Movie Review: ''Dono: A film worth watching despite some shortcomings.''

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By Bollyy
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Rating: Two and a half stars

Producer: Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Raj Kumar Barjatya, Ajit Kumar Barjatya

Author: Avneesh S Barjatya and Manu Sharma

Director: Avnish S Barjatya

Cast: Rajeev Deol, Paloma Dhillon, Aditya Nanda, Kanika Kapoor, Rohan Khurana, Manik Papaneja, Poojan Chhabra

Duration: 2 hours 36 minutes

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The film production and distribution company “Rajshree Films” started by Tarachand Barjatya has completed 76 years in Bollywood. Now their fourth generation is working. Coming in, the fourth generation, Avinash Barjatya has brought his directorial debut with 'Dono', which is the 59th film of 'Rajshree Films'. In which Sunny Deol's son Rajveer Deol and Poonam Dhillon's daughter Paloma are paired. The films of ‘Rajshree Films’ have their own identity. They have always been highlighting life values and family values in their films. They did some experiments in between, but every one of his attempts was unsuccessful. Now Avnish Barjatya, son of Sooraj Barjatya, grandson of Raj Kumar Barjatya, and great-grandson of Tarachand Barjatya has tried to carry forward the tradition of Rajshree films by telling the story of today's environment, despite some shortcomings. In 'Dono', along with marriage, love, separation, a destination wedding of Marwari environment, family values and modern thinking of the present generation have also been highlighted. Unfortunately, despite such a long experience, Rajshree Films could not promote its new generation's first film 'Dono' properly. Now the makers of 'Rajshree Films' need to think seriously about who is really responsible for this.

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Story:

The romantic story begins with Dev Saraf (Rajveer Deol) busy setting up his start-up business in Bangalore. His parents live in Mumbai and Dev's school and college friend Alina (Kanika Kapoor) is getting married. He is upset by this. He has been in love with Alina since the age of fifteen, but he has not been able to say this to Alina to date. But while answering the same problem Nishant, a caller in a program of Miss Anjali Malhotra (Tisca Chopra), Anjali Malhotra advises Nishant “What is the use of sitting at the station and waiting for a train which doesn’t arrive at that station? So either he has to go to another station to catch another train or he has to take another which comes at the same station. Only then can he find a new destination? Therefore, he should go to his friend's wedding, maybe there he will find his way to the new train.'' Inspired by this, Dev Saraf attends Alina's wedding in Thailand. Where he meets Meghna (Paloma Dhillon). After being in a relationship with Gaurav (Aditya Nanda) for six years, she had a break-up just a month ago. Gaurav has also come to attend this marriage. Both Dev and Meghna try to understand each other. In between, Gaurav has his own antics, while Alina's future husband Nikhil (Rohan Khurana) has his own antics. There are many twists and turns in the story. At one point, it seems that Meghna will go back to Gaurav and after knowing the truth, Alina will take Dev Saraf's hand...but you will have to watch the film to know what happens.

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Review:

There are some shortcomings at the script level. While watching the film, it seems that this film has been made keeping in mind the tourism of Thailand. The director of the film has failed in some scenes. The basic reason for this is that in order to follow the tradition of his previous generation, he has made an unsuccessful attempt to keep the scenes of some old films of his own company intact. He forgot that as time and context change, the meaning of words also changes, hence new types of scenes should have been created. The film is full of incredible scenes. Some scenes indicate that relationships do not matter to the current generation. Not only this but by implementing what the film director has said while talking about women's equality and equality between husband and wife, families get broken and the tradition of 'Rajshree films' has not been to break families.

Similarly, the kissing scenes in the film are also irritating, the way the director has shown long kissing scenes of the hero and the heroine publicly in front of all the relatives in a wedding set in a Rajasthani environment, cannot be accepted. Is this how Avnish understands the difference between the two generations? Have the values of his own family become the same now? It is natural for such questions to be raised. By the way, Avnish Barjatya has also tried to show in the film that when both boys and girls have equal participation in any work, then why only girls are getting blamed?

Avnish Barjatya has successfully tried to show every detail of the Indian wedding customs and traditions in Thailand.

The pace of the film is very slow and seems to be at a standstill at many places, this is the result of the editor's own weakness. Along with this, the weak side of this film is its songs.

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Acting:

Rajveer Deol in the role of Dev and Paloma in the role of Meghna looked very ordinary in the film. They did not look like the hero or heroine of the film. If the actors had worked on their acting, the film would have been way better. Instead, Varun Buddhadeva and Muskaan Kalyani leave an indelible impression of their acting in the roles of fifteen-year-old Dev and Alina respectively. Both these artists have immense potential to move forward in the industry. Aditya Nanda, Kanika Kapoor, Rohan Khurana, Garima Agarwal, and the rest of the cast have tried to do complete justice to their respective characters.

 

-Shantiswarup Tripathi

 

 

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