Review: Dokyala Shot
Cast: Suvrat Joshi, Prajakta Mali, Ganesh Pandit, Omkar Govardhan, Rohit Haldikar & Sameer Choughule
Director: Shivkumar Parthasarathy

Viewpoint: ‘Dokyala Shot’ has a certain sense of novelty to it, because of it’s overall tone of comedy which mixes situational humor & slapstick humor together but the convenient turns it takes in the narrative are totally devoid of logic. Even if it’s intentional it keeps bothering us as more work on the script could have easily made the film lot more interesting.

What Works?

• The film’s lead cast is of four friends out of whom one (Suvrat Joshi) is suffering from retrograde amnesia (temporary memory loss). His friends played by Ganesh Pandit, Rohit Haldikar & Omkar Govardhan are somehow responsible for this condition and are now trying to make him alright. And all of this has happened just before two days of his wedding! The first half is full of sublime performances of all the four actors. The chemistry between them is instantly believable.
• The dialogue writing compliments the performances which makes many little moments (especially in the first half) uniquely hilarious.
• There’s one quality of a good situational comedy that the characters in the situation are actually very serious & the situation itself is a serious situation for them, but for the audiences those situations are presented such that they become funny. Here too this seriousness part is very effective. We understand that for the characters this isn’t all fun & games!
• There’s an undertone of a slight psychological suspense drama in the first half that is well included in the film through it’s treatment.

What Fails? 

• The second half is extremely overstretched & that too in situations that are lesser important in the narrative.
• There’s a certain style of repetitive humor in the film, which is fine, & it even works well a couple of times but the film keeps overdoing it. Then it becomes a drag & the title of the film becomes our condition!
• As said earlier the narrative is conveniently designed just to makes certain situations happen, it is totally devoid of logic. We do understand that for a comedy of this kind logic can’t be a criteria to judge but still there’s a limit to the liberty one can take in this department.
• This film is an official remake of a Tamil film, while we are not sure if the original film had something to say through the film, but here we surely saw a possibility. It definitely isn’t a rule that a film should have something to say but when the film falters as an ‘entertainer’ we do look for a message or a statement & especially when the film is said to be based on a real incident!

Final Verdict: ‘Dokyala Shot’ surely deserves one watch as this is a fresh kind of humor for the Marathi audiences. While this film isn’t totally a great film the debutante director of the film Shivkumar Parthasarathy has shown a glimpse of his talent, which makes us anticipate for the movies he might come up with in the future.

Rating: 2.5/5

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• Movie : Love Lafde (2018) | लव्ह लफडे
• Producer : Geetha Kulkarni and Sumaydh Gaikwad
• Directer : Sachin R. Ambat
• Studio : Salag Motion Pictures and Sacred Buddha Creations
• Star Cast :
  • Sumaydh Gaikwad
  • Rohit Phalke
  • Monika Dabade
  • Ruchira Jadhav
  • Avdhoot Wadkar
  • Sameer Choughule
  • Nayan Jadhav
  • Sanjay More
  • Kalpesh Satpute
  • Kunal Shinde
  • Roshni Jadhav
  • Rahul Gorakh Newale
  • Bhagesh Kembhavi
  • Chinmesh Kalyankar
  • Himanshu Tambat
  • Monica Kambli
• Story, Screenplay and Dialogues : Sanjay More
• Music : Pravin Kuwar and Anay Naik
• Lyrics : Varun Jain, Ajay Thorve, Sachin Ambat and Sanjay More
• Singers : Avadhoot Gupte, Pravin Kuwar, Mangesh Borgaokar, Rohit Raut, Bharti Madhvi and Mugdha Karade
• Background Music : Abhishek-Gaurav
• Cinematography (DOP) : Swapnil Manval
• Associate Director of Photography : Sagar Ambat
• Art Director : Roshni Jadhav, Sushma Kothe and Pooja Tari
• Editor : Faisal Mahadik and Imran Mahadik
• Make Up : Lalit Kulkarni
• Costumes : Amol Sawant
• Choreography : Nitin Jadhav and Prajakta Shelar
• Executive Producer : Mayur Jadhav
• Sound Recordist : Mahesh and Suhas
• Still Photography : Rashtrapal Kakde
• Genre  : Romantic Comedy and Drama
• Release Date : 21st June 2018

Synopsis : Love Lafde is a musical romantic comedy film. The story revolves around Love and the consequences caused because of Love in a comic manner. The story is of a young college Boy named Shubham who likes a girl Ruchi from his college, but he is quite shy to open up his feelings in front of her as well as his friends.
Shubham has three best friends who are of three different characteristics, way different from each other. One of them is Logic from Pune, who is a bookworm and thinks that everything that happens has a Logic behind it, the second one is Hulahul from Satara, who has a habit of using proverbs for every situation but in a comic way. The third friend of them is Filmy who is from Mumbai and has his own different world full of Bollywood films. He relates every situation with Bollywood films and thinks that the answer to every question lies in films u just need to relate the exact situation.
As soon as these friends come to know about Shubhams feelings for Ruchi, they decide to help him get his Lady Love, each of them starts trying for Shubham in their own way but, each of them fail the task creating a comic situation. Then they meet Utkarsh the Loveguru who is a person who can impress any girl with his flirty tactics. Utkarsh promises to help them. How does he help? Whether they succeed? Whether they will get LOVE or fall in LAFADE (fight) is all the story about…

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‘Love Lafde’ is an upcoming Marathi Rom Com that is all set to defy the norms of releasing a film in Marathi! Following the tradition of online content all over the world, this Marathi film is all set to be released online through a mobile app. The name of this app is Home Cinema Center (HCC).

This film stars Balak Palak fame actor Rohit Phalke who was also seen in the critically acclaimed ‘Manjha’. The film also stars Ruchira Jadhav, Sumedh Gaikwad & Monika Dabde in important roles. This film is directed by Sachin Ambat & is an out & out entertainer targeted mainly towards the youth.

It would be interesting to see how the audience responds to this brave attempt at releasing a Marathi film on a mobile app instead of the big screen. Would we see more such Marathi releases? Would we see more original Marathi content created for apps & streaming sites? It can only be known in the near future!

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