do knot disturb : REVIEW - Page 2

David Dhawan and Govinda are back in what should be their 18th film together. Do Knot Disturb, apart from Govinda, features Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Sushmita Sen, Ranvir Shorey and Rajpal Yadav. Besides the various promotional videos, the unique marketing strategy that the producers used called 'flash mobs' that create an idea of the Do Knot Disturb storyline with live entertainment on the streets of Delhi and Mumbai has undoubtedly left many thirsty for more. Also, this is the first time two Miss Universe winners will be working together. But with all the curiosity generated, is this new outing of David Dhawan as hilarious as his previous works?


Do Knot Disturb is a typical David Dhawan comedy - full of errors. An insanely rich businessman (Govinda) is married to a rich and gorgeous woman (Sushmita Sen). Govinda is involved in an extra martial relationship with a super model played by Lara Dutta. To save his marriage, he bribes his waiter friend (Ritesh Deshmukh) to be the supermodel's boyfriend. What follows is a crazy laugh riot that falls short of expectations.


Do Knot Disturb lacks an in-depth storyline; in fact the script is half-baked, but the many parallel stories running with each of its character, makes it a 'knotty and shoddy' affair. The initial reels start off well with its share of comic moments that are fun. But as the movie proceeds, the sequences get very clumsy and with no story to tell the screenplay breaks into a song every now and then without rhyme or reason. The laughs are not consistent and the movie tends to give you a feel of monotony as you find the same gags repeat it. You have actors yelling at the top of their voices or breaking into female tones, apparently supposed to be funny but all it does is giving you a scorching headache.

The outdated situational jokes like the dead body of the detective going around the hotel and some faulty characterizations like the crazy angry ex-boyfriend are a huge turn-off. And if this is not painful enough, every now and then you also witness the mother-son family drama that is so tacky. Not just that, despite the characters repeatedly mention the place Delhi, the movie doesn't seem to have been shot in the capital city of India, too many cinematic liberties like in every Dhawan movie. The climax is pathetic. The movie suddenly jumps to an abrupt and absurd ending. Dialogues come as a saving grace sometimes. From detergents to cosmetics to electronic goods, everything is used to phrase some uniquely funny dialogues. Music is mediocre, but as mentioned earlier is totally out-of-focus.

Coming to the performances, everyone overacts. With Govinda-Ritesh-Ranvir sharing screens pace, we except some brilliant comic timing, while they are good, all you get is just a handful of laughter. Govinda is good in some scenes but otherwise is horribly over the top. Ritesh Deshmukh does well. As for the ladies, Sushmita in her extended special appearance looks plump. Lara Dutta hams throughout. Ranvir Shorey is wasted. Manoj Pahwa could have been better. Sohail Khan isn't any bit funny.

Overall, Do Knot Disturb has its moments of laughter but is better left undisturbed.

Theirs were honest, if lowbrow, fun. Even in recent times, the duo has produced the occasional box-office winner such as Partner (2007).

But everything in the world of films has a shelf life. And Do Knot Disturb, a bedroom farce that's only occasionally funny, gives you a feeling of old wine in new bottle.

Story goes like this: Hen-pecked Govinda is having a roaring affair with Lara Dutta. But to mislead the detective that his rich and suspicious wife Sushmita Sen has set upon him, he pays Riteish Deshmukh to pretend that the latter is actually Lara's lover. It's a perfect situation for farcical comedy. Dhawan tries his best to recreate the magic of old. Plenty of street-smart dialogues are woven around the similes of mobile phone, dvds and television to explain the pati, patni aur woh relationship: "Never attach your own tv to another person's dvd," for instance. But the movie never becomes the zany comedy it's supposed to be.

Like the director, Govinda tries hard too. And his loyal single-screen fans might still enjoy the way he says, Dolly, Dolly Dolly, every time he sees the stunning Lara Dutta. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the movie's other beauty queen Sushmita Sen. The real scene stealer is Rajpal Yadav. Getting slapped was never funnier.

wanted to see this movie but i am not surprised with these really bad reviews!! off to see wake up sid and maybe what's your raashee again 😃

Masand's movie review: Do Knot Disturb is a dud

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Govinda and David Dhawan were a formidable actor-director team who you could count on to deliver a few good laughs. Much time has passed since, but the duo is still flogging the same formulas over and over again. Their latest collaboration, Do Knot Disturb is a flat-out rip-off of the French comedy, The Valet, but if you didn't know that you'd say it's a rejig of their own previous films, Saajan Chale Sasural and Kyonkii Main Jhooth Nahin Bolta, with a generous helping of the director's Biwi No 1 thrown in for good measure.

Govinda stars as the cheating husband of a suspicious millionaire wife Sushmita Sen who hires private-eye Ranvir Shorey to follow her husband's every move when she chances upon a photograph of her spouse with sexy item-girl Lara Dutta. To hide his affair from his wife, Govinda tracks down Ritesh Deshmukh, a waiter who can also be spotted in the picture, and pays him to pretend that the siren is in fact, his girlfriend. The wife is not fooled; she plays the situation for what it's worth, making her husband jealous of his mistress' new living arrangement with the waiter. It all ends in an agonizingly harebrained climax at a five-star hotel where much chaos ensues when husband, wife, mistress, her ex-boyfriend, detective and waiter, all show up and run into each other.

Its humour derived from such staple David Dhawan cliches as mistaken identities and misunderstandings, Do Knot Disturb is a repellant comedy with irrational plot-points and flaccid punch-lines. The jokes are stale; most of them involve slapstick gags like a corpse getting stuck in a laundry chute, and a possessive ex-boyfriend who goes around punching everyone in sight.

Hanging off a wafer-thin premise that barely holds, this film is repetitive and boring, and doesn't even give its actors much scope to push their comic boundaries. The once dependable Govinda is reduced to a mere caricature of his earlier self, his performance now amounting to a variety of facial contortions, and silly dialogues yelled out at the top of his voice. Ritesh Deshmukh and Ranvir Shorey are wasted in thankless roles, and Lara Dutta spends most of the film batting her eyelashes and speaking in a squeaky voice.

The film's one major eyesore is the usually elegant Sushmita Sen whose unflattering wardrobe does nothing to hide her sudden weight-gain. As the doubting wife determined to catch her philandering husband, Sushmita ought to have considered sitting on Govinda, and more than likely he'd have confessed his infidelity in the first ten minutes of this film itself, thus sparing us the torture of watching the rest of this drivel.

Vulgar, loud and entirely pointless, Do Knot Disturb has virtually nothing to offer anyone with even half a brain. At best, Rajpal Yadav scores a few chuckles with his manic physical comedy.

I'm going with one out of five and a thumbs-down for director David Dhawan's Do Knot Disturb. It's hard to believe this film was actually directed by someone. Was David Dhawan ever on the set at all? Perhaps Sushmita Sen ate him! That answers two important questions.

Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)

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wow it sounds pretty good.... I hope it works out 4 dem :D

A RICH WIFE (SUSHMITA SEN) SUSPECTS that her husband (Govinda) is doing it with another woman (Lara Dutta). To divert the wife's attention, the husband (who really is doing it with the other woman) hires an amiable loser (Ritesh Deshmukh) to pretend to be doing it with his mistress. The latter's angry ex (Sohail Khan), meanwhile, thinks that the loser and his former girlfriend are really doing it, and his suspicions are shared by the detective (Ranvir Shorey, who thinks that by getting the husband out of the picture, he can begin to do it with the wife) hired by the wife to spy on her husband, who himself begins to think that his mistress is doing it with the loser. Somewhere through all this, Manoj Pahwa shows up as the only one who cannot do it – he sits on a porcelain throne and pleads with his constipated bowels, "Aaja!" And you wonder if this visual isn't the perfect metaphor for the comic ideas in David Dhawan's Do Knot Disturb, which never quite find satisfying release.

1/5 - Avoidable

http://www.desipundit.com/baradwajrangan/2009/10/03/review-wake-up-sid-do-knot-disturb/

awwwh...ritesh veerjie had gotten so many good reviews for his films in 2007 and two were hit one super hit i am praying for his aladin to work.

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did any1 catch Riteish on twitter? His status was somethin liek thank u Shoba De cuz she complimented him on his perf. This woman is usually know for criticizing ppl lol Go Ritiesh

i wonder y ppl on IF r after katrina when v have lara dutta...almost all the reviews have mentioned lara as horrible horrible actress...