Dilli Gang Hindi Movie
It isn't new to read about directors of realistic films getting inspired from crime stories published in daily newspapers. Ashish Tyagi appears to have taken a similar route with Dilli Gang by weaving human drama around the crime story of loots rampant in the Capital of India, Delhi.
Vishambhar Prasad (Darshan Jariwala) and wife Sujata (Neena Kulkarni) marry off their daughter and just when they are dealing with emptiness in their lives their only son Ashish (Amir Dalvi) also goes packing back to Germany. The old couple somehow try to get on with their lives but soon comes a road block in the name of cancer. Sujata gets detected with multiple myeloma but instead of taking help from his son, Vishambhar thinks it would only bother him and fakes the reports being that of a friend and sends them off to Germany for further counselling.
Admist all this you are shown a ruthless gang of four goons who thrive on looting aged people by barging into their homes pretending to be AC mechanics. How they break into Vishambhar's house post the demise of his wife is what follows through the rest of the plot.
Dilli Gang comes across as a convoluted plot where there's a battle between the main and the sub-plot both of which keep superseding each other time and again. At most times the movie is about the human drama of the relationship between parents and their son who pretty much abandons them than that of the gang on which the film gets its title.
If the muddled script isn't enough, the execution doesn't help either. The treatment to the script is so amateurish that it appears the work of a first year student of a film school.
With a novice director even the talented actors like Darshan Jariwala and Neena Kulkarni take a beating on their act and put up a mediocre work.
Dilli Gang not just keeps oscillating from one story to the other but also from bad to worse. Yet another film to bite the dust due to poor execution.
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