De Taali

De Taali is a movie with a light comedy and a normal plot that doesn’t send the audience on laughing riot as it was projected, except for some enjoyable moments which should have been maintained throughout by E.Nivas.

The theme can friendships ever turn to love, gels in most of Shahrukh Khan movies. Here, three friends Paglu (Riteish Deshmukh), Abhi (Aftab Shivdasani) and Ami (Ayesha Takia) share the best of friendship. Ami is the girl considered the tom boy by the two guys. Abhi is someone who loves to get in love more often and is going to be in for the 33rd time. The character Paglu, is of a guy with great sense of humour. Paglu seeds one sided love for Abhi in Ami and she believes that she is the girl in the Abhi’s life. But the story takes a turn when Abhi falls in in love with Kartika (Rimi Sen) a gold digger and wants to marry her. Paglu and Ami come to know that Kartika is trapping Abhi because of his money, so they kidnap her in the airport. Kartika after being kidnapped is moved to Paglu’s house. Ami and Abhi fall in love with each other.

In the meanwhile, Kartika runs away from Paglu’s house and informs Abhi about he kidnap. She brainwashes Abhi into believing that Paglu and Ami are not his real friends. By then Paglu finds out Kartika aka Anjali’s past history of her two affairs (Mukul Dev, Pawan Malhotra) and a marriage (Sachin Narvekar). On the wedding day, Paglu calls all three of them and gives the bride a roll-a-coaster ride. What happens to Abhi, Ami, Paglu & Kartika post this?

Riteish has now developed the uncanny knack of coming up with such performance with relative ease, no doubt he is signed in for such films. Aftab has been is normal class act. Ayesha Takia has shown improvisation in this outing. Rimi Sen has added the requisite zing. Anupam Kher, Saurabh Shukla, Mukul Dev and Pawan Malhotra have been wasted in the movie. Music by Vishal-Shekhar is quite okay and the film has two good tracks on which the film has been promoted. Abbas Tyrewala has tried to brew up an interesting story, not ably supported by the screenplay and direction.

De Taali does not conjure up to its name and ends up in the okay category.