Dil Bole Hadippa ! (Dvd) (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film)DIL BOLE HADIPPA is a celebration of the never say die spirit of India. Here, for the first time, the dynamic duo of Shahid Kapoor & Rani Mukherjee, take you on a hide and seek game of romance, passion and dreams. Veera (Rani Mukherjee) is a fire-cracker of a girl who lives in a small village but dreams in 70mm. She works in a local theatre group but dreams of playing cricket in the big league. Yes, believe it or not, she wants to play with Tendulkar and Dhoni for India. While Veera dreams on in India, Rohan (Shahid Kapoor) is an accomplished captain of a county cricket team in England. Rohan returns to India to captain his father s cricket team which has been losing consecutively for the last 8 years. In a village where girls don t play cricket, Veera has to put on a turban and beard and become a man to fulfill her dreams. Her brilliance on the field earns her a place in Rohan s team and Veera Kaur becomes Veer Pratap Singh. And then begins a roller-coaster journey of Veera, Rohan and Veer filled with music, romance and comedy through Punjab and beyond. This tale of turbans, twists and tricks will make your heart go Hadippa!
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Review by Roontoon for Dil Bole Hadippa ! (Dvd) (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film)
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“Dil Bole Hadippa!” (“My Heart Shouts “Hadippa”!(Hooray) makes a good intro to Bollywood/Indian musicals. It has all the splash of full-out Bollywood but with terrific modern updates & a little something for everyone. For the ladies there’s the predictable but crackling good rom/com tension between Shahid Kapoor & Rani Mukherjee. With all this wrapped up in a cricket championship with a little gender-bending to keep it off-balance, guys should find it just as entertaining. For those who avoid subtitled films, know that there’s as much English dialogue in Bollywood films nowdays as Hindi, particularly in this one, so don’t let that keep you away.
The score is fantastic, with terrific Punjabi-flavored dance tunes that will keep anyone moving on the dance floor or in the workout room. Shahid’s dancing is stellar as ever, and it’s nice to see him finally paired with a partner who matches his energy & precision; someone he can really “play ball” with. Rani & Shahid are among my favorites separately, and together they don’t disappoint. Rani as Veer/Veera is awesome. I thought it would be impossible for such a petite female to convincingly appear as a guy, but she goes at it with gusto & delivers great laughs. Shahid delivers a well-shaded performance with another slightly edgier character. Nice to see him moving so successfully from Boy-Next-Door characters to work with wider range.
It’s a visually gorgeous film also, with all the bright colors & gorgeous Punjab landscapes in-larger-than-life 70mm. And, uh..the lead actors aren’t too hard on the eyes, either.
Review by N. Joseph for Dil Bole Hadippa ! (Dvd) (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film)
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This is one funny, lively and very entertaining film. Rani Mukherjee goes above and beyond the call of an actor’s duty to deliver a great performance. The other actors are focused and very much in tune with their characters. The music is excellent and the dance numbers compliment the spirit and pace of the film. Buy this DVD. You will not regret it! I loved it! Two thumbs way up.
Review by M. Pickford for Dil Bole Hadippa ! (Dvd) (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film)
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It’s a remake of She’s The Man (the one with Amanda Bynes) – but executed so well.
In order to fulfill her dream of playing cricket for India, ‘carnival dancer’ and talented cricketer Veera (Mukherjee) transforms herself into her male alter ego Veer – but she of course finds it difficult to keep up the pretense when she falls for the captain of the team, Rohan (Kapoor).
This movie is so much fun. Predictable, yes. A little parochial, yes. But full of life, well acted, well directed, and with one of the best soundtracks I’ve heard on a Hindi film. Rani Mukherjee blew me away as Veer/Veera – I had no idea she had such excellent comedy chops. Shahid Kapoor is at his best in many ways – he gets to show some range (including a touch of the dark side he showed in Fida). Most importantly he has shed that ridiculous SRK haircut he has had in past movies. And he is simply mesmerising to watch when he dances.
Mika Singh & Co. pulled out all the stops for a great soundtrack for this movie too – ‘Discowale Khisco’, ‘Hadippa!’, ‘Bhangra Bistar’, are all great beat-driven tunes.
My only minor complaint is the movie falls into the old ‘Punjab is the best’ rut which probably started with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
Review by Littlelamp for Dil Bole Hadippa ! (Dvd) (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film)
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A very cute Bollywood take on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The girl dressing like a boy routine has been done before most recently in the movieShe’s the Man (Widescreen Edition) but it has never been done with so much fun an flair until now. Who says that girls can’t play cricket? Because Veera will prove everyone wrong even if takes dressing like a boy to prove it. The only thing standing in her way is Rohan the team captain who frowns at Veer Pratap Singh’s (the name a nudge to Veer-Zaara I believe which is another great movie) antics without knowing that it is in fact Veera the girl he has fallen for. Great clean fun for the whole family I highly recommended it.
Review by Lee Jilek for Dil Bole Hadippa ! (Dvd) (Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema / Hindi Film)
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I realized right off the bat that if I stopped questioning if Rani is believable as a man or not, the movie would be a lot more fun. Knowing nothing about Cricket, I thought she was believable as a batsman but it seems like maybe size and strength would matter more than it does in the Cricket scenes. I really enjoyed the Cricket scenes and believe that Baseball could learn a lot from Cricket on how to make Baseball less boring. Would like to see a real Cricket match someday.
There is some goofiness in this film that is no harder to watch than the goofiness in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai or DDLJ. I did like Rani in the back-of-the-truck scene where she speaks with poor English, chews on sugar cane and spits out chewed cane sometimes toward Rashid in defiance of his self-proclaimed Indianness. Seems like there is a new side to her acting in every film.
There are some scenes where Rashid is intense and very very good and some scenes where he doesn’t seem to feel what he is doing, but it doesn’t hurt the film much.
Okay, the main reason I buy Indian films is for the music and dancing and Dil Bole Hadippa does not disappoint on that count. There are 3 big dance songs and my favorite (by a little) is the big carnival dance, Discowale Khisko. Some of the wording and movement in that dance set up an outrageously funny collision between Sherlyn Chopra and Rakhi Sawant. There is a fairly loud ringing-ching from jewelry and bangles due to the collision – wonderful humor in acknowledgement of how much jewelry these women sometimes wear. Rani, Rashid and backup dancers really get with it in these drum driven dances.
Bottom line: story 4 – 5 because of the moral, Cricket scenes 4 – 5 because I’ve never seen it before, acting 3 – 5 because it’s all over the place (blame the director) and music and dancing a solid 5. So I guess a strong 4 overall but a 5 if you are into Indian songs, drums and dancing.