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I want to watch DKD asappp. Iam so jealous of u kaan , fiery , 21 and DY 😡

Originally posted by: PARIDHI20

I want to watch DKD asappp. Iam so jealous of u kaan , fiery , 21 and DY
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Aww don't be jelly and go to theatres and watch it ASAP. 😆

I'm sure you'll love it :D

Today is last day for DKD to collect enough money.If it doesn't make enough today, even 15 crore lifetime seems a big deal

Tit for tat. ahahha.😆.wait for Piku thread eh. Just kidding! Not interested to disturb that.😛

Dolly Ki Doli: 1st Weekend Box Office Collections

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I hope DKD maintains at the BO. We'll be fine then. ;)

Originally posted by: KaanKeNiche

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I hope DKD maintains at the BO. We'll be fine then. ;)

You are Salim family's fan or working with arbaaz?😲😆 Okay I got you. Excited sonam-raj's fan.


here for you mam!😆

BABY collects Rs 36.07 cr in three days, Dolly Ki Doli struggles at box office

New Delhi: Akshay Kumar starrer BABY has caught the pace at box office and by weekend the movie has collected impressive Rs 36.07 cr nett in India.

According to trade analyst and film critic Taran Adarsh, the movie has showed a brilliant jump on Sunday and has garnered Rs 15.60 cr nett in India. "Baby continues its forward march. Collects Rs 15.60 cr on Sun", tweets Adarsh.

Being a Republic Day holiday, a further rise in its collection is expected, which should take movie's box office figures beyond Rs 50 cr mark and that would be victorious for this Neeraj Pandey's directorial.

"Today Jan] should deliver big numbers again as word of mouth is super", wrote Adarsh on his Twitter account.

On the other hand, despite getting decent reviews, Sonam Kapoor starrer Dolly Ki Doli couldn't fetch much audience. The comedy-caper, which also stars Rajkumar Rao, Pulkit Samrat and Varun Sharma, has just managed to garner nearly Rs 10.75 cr by its first weekend, according to a leading website Bollywood Hungama.

The Arbaaz Khan production has not much to be criticized but is just suffering from bigger competitor at the box office. Being a patriotic flick, which shows how to counter terrorism, BABY is given thumbs up by all the critics and with Republic Day celebration it was to be viewers' first choice.

Dolli Ki Doli, which is moving sluggishly at box office won't be able to make much collection in the coming days. The extended weekend has worked is favour of BABY but the same is not in the case of Abhishek Dogra's directorial.

This week we'll witness Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt's production Khamoshiyan' and Ayushmann Khurrana's Hawaizaada', which if doesn't get good response, will favour BABY and that would increase its chances to enter Rs 100 cr club too.

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Okay Monday collection usually releases hours later or tom. So, bye for now. Take care all.😉😆

Originally posted by: SanayaMyLIFE

Dkd crossed 500cr

thanks ... HAVE SOME SWEETS

Originally posted by: SanayaMyLIFE

Dkd crossed 500cr

Let wait for superstar Sonam's movie to make 20 crore lifetime? Or 25 crore worldwide? That'll be EPIC

Good Golly, Miss Dolly: Trying to
make sense of "Dolly ki Doli"
What is this movie about, I kept
wondering, and why does it exist?
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| 4-minute read | 24-01-2015
JAI ARJUN SINGH
@jaiarjun
The best thing I can find to say of
Dolly ki Doli - about a con woman
using marriage as her playground and
decamping with valuables midway
through each suhaag raat after
drugging the groom-of-the-moment -
is that it has the sense to be only an
hour and 40 minutes long. This is a
definite point in its favour. If they had
chipped away another hour and a half,
it may even have been a good film.
What is this movie about , I kept
wondering, and why does it exist?
Some observations that may or may
not answer those questions:
It could be a sort of fable (though the
thought and energy required to
interpret it in those terms probably
isn't worth it) - an allegory about the
Revenge of the Dowry Givers; a satire
on the socially sanctioned
assessment and bartering of young
women, and their subsequent
shackling into married life where they
are treated as inflatable sex dolls by
husbands and as slaves and jewellery
banks by parents-in-law; an exercise
in wish-fulfillment that takes
women's empowerment into a new
dimension.
If this is the case, the central
character is meant to be a blank slate
on which men (and their overbearing
parents) can scrawl their own
fantasies or ideals. "Dolly" is different
things to different people - a gharelu
ladki, a seductress, and so on - and
you'd think such a tabula-rasa role
would be well suited to Sonam Kapoor,
who is as synthetic and vacant here
as she has ever been on screen. That
isn't how it works though. Kapoor is
passable in the scenes where Dolly is
carrying out her charades (because,
think about it, what standards do we
use to judge her performance in those
bits? Anything goes. Every gesture and
expression, however broad or
unconvincing, can be explained away
as being part of an act), but when
Dolly is with her own people, being
"herself", there is no sense of a
person with any inner life. Instead she
mechanically drones lines that might
sound meaningful on paper ("I would
rather be in an actual jail than in your
shaadi ka jail") but have little overall
relevance to this hodgepodge of a film.
But here's another theory. The wild
tonal shifts, the problems in logic, the
lack of continuity, the pastiche-like
feel, scenes such as the one involving
a misplaced dadi, the non-sequiturish
incomprehensibleness of the note left
behind by Dolly at the end (why do I do
what I do, she says. Well, why does a
sabzi-walla sell sabzi and not
alcohol?)... all this can be easily
explained if one assumes that Dolly ki
Doli isn't a film but the sum of a
series of auditions where actors like
Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma and
Pulkit Samrat were asked to try out a
few different things - look, here is a
role you could be playing in a big-
budget film we may or may not be
planning, so:
"Speak in a Sonepat accent."
"Put on a moustache and try to look
grown-up and policeman-like."
"Be sleazy."
"Look avuncular."
"Bumble."
"Do pelvic dance."
"Say dadi!' and slap your forehead
while looking surprised and sad."
"And Sonam, no, you don't have to
pronounce Vay' as Vay' just because
it's written like that - woh' will do
nicely. Oh well. Whatever."
And then all those audition clips were
thrown together.
Ultimately though, I have decided that
this film is best seen in meta terms, as
yet another self-examination by the
movie industry. What better way to
comment on certain feudal-patriarchal
traditions in our society than to
reference another major feudal-
patriarchal tradition, the star system?
So here is a savvy con woman getting
the better of a host of men who are
clearly out of their depth in her
company - and as if to echo this, we
have a privileged, glamorous, second-
generation actress in the lead role,
surrounded by "plainer" actors from
more low-key milieus. ("Itni lambi
ladkiyan hoti hain?" asks a boy's
mother amusingly, and one is
reminded that as a physical specimen
of lambaai and gorapan, Sonam
Kapoor bears roughly the same
relationship to actors like Rajkummar
as the elven-queen Galadriel does to
the Dwarf Lords in Tolkien.) No
wonder then that when all these non-
starry men can't track down or tame
Dolly (she is always out of reach), it
needs a cameo appearance by a
mainstream star (Saif Ali Khan) to help
apprehend her.
And no wonder too that the final,
"money shot" cameo - even though
it's only a photograph - is by Salman
Khan. Forget all those platitudes about
shaadi as a jail, or the "serious" angle
of a woman, let down in love, avenging
herself on other men. THIS is what the
film has been building up to all along:
Salman as the ultimate ideal of
malehood, the prem rattan, the
superstar capable of turning even our
opportunistic heroine into a bag of
mush. Poor Saif. Despite that grand,
star-cameo entrance, even he turned
out second best in the end. And as for
the film's ostensible leading man
Rajkummar... at least he got an item
number.
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