Before the movie started one could feel the excitement in the hall with all the whistles, shouting and claps. But all went calm slowly and no one was excited enough as the last credits were rolling. There were mammoth expectations from Shekhar Menon in the role of a fat man and coming up with a solid title “Da Thadiya” raised those expectations to the highest level. But sadly the film fails to satisfy even half of what was expected.
The film starts promisingly with some flashback sequences and then the story takes a similar turn like in “Just Friends”. Here also a fat man is sent to a yoga club to loss his weight, and meet his childhood girlfriend. Last time we saw Ryan Reynolds loss his weight, but this time Shekhar didn't.
The story proceeds introducing some funny associates of the fat man who fail to raise enough laughter, a lady cheating him, her boy friend and her friend. Since the mayor election gets announced, Shekhar has to take over as the mayor and then he goes on to transform hearts. That’s the storyline of the movie.
It commences with Shekhar & N.L Balakrishnan, boarding on a bus and the bus have full of gosts with feathers (Quite a new thought). The writer takes them there only to take a turn in the story where the Mayor plot comes in. The question arises what this storyline has to do with the title “Da Thadiya” and a fat hero. It simply shows that the fat element was roped in to cash on to the fat people (not only fat boys) living all over the globe. The first half of the movie does has its moments but not in the required quantity. The second half dips down with unwanted love triangle plot and the viewer is left asking for more.
It can be noticed that there are two get ups of Shekhar as a fat man in the movie.One is in the Green turban in the opening where he is looking like a proper fat man and the second is after this sequence (for rest of the movie), where he is not wearing a proper turban, has a french cut beard and is looking more like a N.R.I. It looks like there was no knowledgeable fat person to guide them when they were shooting abroad. And when they understood the mistake they did some reshooting again for the opening sequence of the movie. Intelligently the promos also feature Shekhar in the proper get up only which was rightly done by the team.
Performance wise Shekhar is fine as a fat man and the mayor. He starts the movie with his perfect comedy but loses the track in the later reels. He has very few funny lines to say & for that the script writer and the director has to be blamed severely. You will miss the famous Sreenath Bhasi laughter in the movie which can be found nowhere. Ann looks ravishing but hasn’t got much to do. Nivi Poly is completely miscast and wasted as the loser fiancé. Maniyan Pillai Raju and Arundhathi Nag are ok.
Interestingly there are a large number of talented people who are simply wasted in the movie like Edavela Bhabu, Vinay Fort, Thesni Khan, Jayaraj Varrier and Kunjan. All these names are capable of adding more colours to the movie, specially the comedians but they were not given any chance.
Musically, it has few good numbers which are already a hit. But some unwanted songs are also there like “Vanam Meleyanu Bhai”. Biji always manages to give few hits in all his scores, which is good for him but may be not for the movie this time.
The director, Ashiq Abu seems to be missing the train this time. It looks like he was in so much hurry to make this film that he forgot to work on the script and on the entertainment quotient. This time, his direction lacks the perfect comic timing which we have seen in his last few ventures. May be he relied too much on the crowd pulling power of Sreenath Bhasi and on the solid strong title.
In the end I would like to say that I was feeling completely unsatisfied after watching the movie as it had a misleading title which had nothing to do with the film. Moreover it failed to entertain as per the huge expectations. But the film will definitely get a huge opening that’s for sure. And I will also not be surprised if the film is declared a hit because we have seen some mediocre film working in the past too.
Rating : 4 / 5
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