Kill Dil or Happy Ending, none fit my bill!

I couldn't have been more disappointed with the hindi movies I watched in the last two weekends. Kill Dil and Happy Ending. Watching either of the movies was  De'ja' Vu,only thing these movies offered was an option to kill your time if you really can’t sleep, hey! But even then I would rather just watch re-runs of House instead, it has better and more interesting endings

Kill Dil is about two professional shooters/ murderers- Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu( Ali Zafer) who work for Bhaiyaji (Govinda). Dev falls for the criminal psychologist Disha (Parineeti) and resolves to turn clean to the dismay of his boss. Tutu helps Dev in the process, loads of drama that ends with ofcourse a happy ending- unexpected assassination of Bhaiyaji. The shooters turn clean and go scot- free, so what if they murdered a hundred, everyone deserves a chance- right?  The characters of both Ranveer & Parineeti are NO DIFFERENT than you have seen them play in their recent past. Ranveer with his eccentric dressing style and idiosyncratic mannerisms and Parineeti is the same outgoing, bubby and unconventional girl. It seems the director just wanted to work on the “tried and tested”

Happy ending is another repeat of Saif’s own movies. It feels that you have had a mocktail made of love aaj kal and cocktail. Why do I call it a mocktail, simply because this is no way enticing or intoxicating, I just feel cheated!.  The only two things that differentiate it from the other two movies is that the directors are different and perhaps Saif Ali Khan’s look (sorta!). The chore character of the protagonist remains the same “non- committal” “a player” who struggles with his “confused feelings about love”. Also the plot is always geographically situated in and around the United States- Really? Why? There is something about the air there that makes men this way? . In each of these three movies the female protagonist goes “No Contact” and runs to the Indian Soil and apna hero will follow her and turn in to a committed adorable guy and there you go – a predictable ending.  I go like hmmm…and to be honest forget a happy ending , I just wanted to the movie to end – period!

Both the movies had one common actor- Govinda. Here again! I really feel a senior actor like him has more liberty to experiment with these meaty character roles. Comedy and dancing have always been his forte and have always admired those skills but I was really hoping his comeback would be more daring.  Rishi Kapoor, back in the days  always played a romantic hero and Boy! did he win hearts. However, when he did make a comeback he did so with an absolute shift - completely different variety of performances that are truly refreshing to watch, oh boy ! now, thats a nice comeback!

I thought Kill dil was a little more entertaining in comparison ..my two cents!

*Pic Source: IMDb