Article Updated 05 August, 2006 02:02:29 AM IST   Darwaza Bandh Rakho By Prema K. ©2006 Bollyvista.com   Like most films from the Ram Gopal Varma stable, 'Darwaza Bandh Rakho' has a novel theme but it falls flat after an interesting start. The story- Four men; Ajay (Aftab Shivdasani), Raghu (Chunky Pandey), Goga (Snehal Dabhi), and Abbas (Zakir Hussain) have dreams of making it big. So they plan to make a quick buck by kidnapping a builder's daughter, Isha (Isha Sharvani). They force themselves into a Gujju businessman's house (Ishrat Ali). The family comprises of his wife (Smita Jaykar), mother, two kids; a son and daughter, and the domestic help (Divya Dutta). They capture them and make them hostages in their own house. The foursome realizes that they're unlucky when they hear that Isha's father (Gulshan Grover) has flown out of the country the same day. The kidnappers are forced to stay put in the house. They take all the people who come into the house as hostages in order to keep their identity and plan under wraps. This creates a series of situations, some hilarious and some too complex for the kidnappers to handle. First it's the pizza delivery boy (Nitin Raikwar), followed by the domestic help's husband (Ravi Kale), a salesgirl (Manisha Koirala), the money lender (Jeeva), a doctor (Kota Srinivasa Rao), the money lender's son, an estate agent (Goga Kapoor), Isha's father's secretary (Pramod Moutho), and finally Isha's father (Gulshan Grover). The climax has the gangsters and the cops too coming to the house. Indeed! It really seems like a very complex situation! The film lacks logic. Isn't it the age of mobile phones? So how's it that the doctor as well as some of the other affluent people who come to the house don't possess a cell phone? We wonder why the four kidnappers take off their masks and reveal their faces to their hostages and kidnapper? One could just go on and on but that would be such a futile exercise! Now for the performances. Ishrat Ali is superb with his perfect Gujju accent. Isha Sharvani is cute. Aftab does a decent job. Chunky is good in the comic portions. Manisha Koirala is okay. Zakir Hussain is good. Snehal Dabhi is decent. Divya Dutta is good as usual. Smita Jaykar is perfectly cast. Gulshan Grover lends decent support in a very brief role. The background score (Amar Mohile) is loud. The camerawork is crazy and goes with the mood of the film. The dialogues are very massy. One dialogue that stands out is the doctor telling all the people who come into the house and are preparing to leave, 'Incoming free, outgoing cut!'. What he means is, once you enter the house you're not allowed to leave. But the box office status of the film seems bleak. . We wonder if anyone would even venture into the theatre to watch it with the non-impressive cast that it boasts (?) of! ** (Two stars) *poor; **average; ***good; ****very good; *****excellent   close   Print this Article http://www.bollyvista.com   http://www.bollyvista.com/article/a/29/6937