Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal: Movie Review by Gaurav
Dhan Dhana Dhan… Dhaaad
I know I am late. My PC is suffering from old age and doesn’t let me perform the way I want to. Sorry for the late post.
What do you think when a football team, which has not won any match in last 25 years, where average age of the team is 35, wins a tournament in UK and that too without any good training. The person coaching this team has no prior coaching experience and hasn’t probably been to football field in last 25 years. I know what you must be thinking. What rubbish, that’s absurd. Well that’s what this movie is.
The movie is about a football club Southall United, which doesn’t have any sponsor, any coach and they probably wont have any ground, if they don’t win this year’s football championship. Captain of the team Shan (Arshad Warsi) is the only decent footballer in the team (no other player in the team is able to hit the ball straight to goalpost). Coach of the team Tony Singh (Boman Irani) is running from his past, because he let his team down when they needed him most 25 years ago (Deja Vu, remember Kabir Khan from ChakDe India). According to coach the most important things to win the tournament are team jersey, team bus and a physiotherapist (what about football, coach?). The team is able to arrange for these three things somehow but loose first two games in the tournament. Now the coach realizes, they need a good striker. The coach select Sunny (John Abraham) for the job, who despite being the best is not selected in the Aston team because he is an Indian. No points for guessing what happens in the end.
I wonder how a film based on football can be so dull. The film is full of a lot many loopholes. Director hasn’t bothered to develop any of the characters and that is probably the weakest point of the movie. Because of lack of character development, you don’t seem connected to the characters. This disconnect lead to disinterest. The relationship between John and his father is awkward. The way coach tries to bring Shan and Sunny together is very lame and there are some enforced emotional scenes. I think Vivek should have waited for sometime and should have watched ChakDe before starting this film. There isn’t much to talk about acting, except the actor playing Shan’s wife none of them are impressive. John, Bipasha, Arshad and Boman are strictly OK. All other are either confused or overacting. Fortunately there are only two songs in the movie. The direction is poor.
Overall the movie is not as good as it could have been. I would rate this as 4 out of 10.
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I saw the movie - Completely agree with gaurav - Never Saw football so dull - Worst Sports movie - it had manythngs but it lacked more than many - Boman was at worst form - trying to do SRK in chak de - Pre Match Speech is direct from CDI - In CDI it was poetry + Uninspiration - In Goal it turned to be uninspiring lack of spoirit kind of lines whch meant nothing
Dir dint even captured right mood of football game n footballers - Most boring n dull movie in recent times
THE SECOND HALF WAS PRETTY GOOD AND THE CLIMAX WAS FANTASTIC…NOT AS BAD AS THE REVIEW MAKES IT SOUND..THE MOVIE DOES GET A BIT PREACHY
Harry, wouldn’t mind it being preachy. It’s wasn’t that either. Can anyone answer following questions for me:
1. What kind of a relationship John and His father shared?
2. Why there were no rigorous training scenes, which might have made audience believe that they might actually win the tournament?
3. How a team with no team spirit (players are always fighting with each other) can be shown as football lovers? They were not football lovers, they played it because it is the most famous sport in UK.
4. How Arshad and John were brought together? Can you believe two people who hated each other so much become friends just after spending one night in same room.
5. Do you think what happened with John in Aston team, is possible in a football team in a country which follows club culture?
6. Why wasn’t any character developed to the extent that audience starts relating with them? In Lagan it was done brilliantly and that is the reason people liked the film.
7. What was significance of scenes involving John and Bipasha?
8. Why the scene in the final match showing John’s father on the screen? Why we have to make everything emotional? Even if it has to be emotional, we should watch Cinderella Man or Rocky or The Greatest Game Ever Played.
9. If I have to see struggle of a coach, I would rather see ChakDe or Remember the Titans. In this film Coach did not do anything remarkable except for taking the team to ManU ground.
10. This should be the longest running football tournament, which ran at least for 9 months. Arshad became a father by the tournament ended, without any sign of pregnancy to his wife when the tournament started.