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Originally posted by: SoniRita

100 cr worldwide ki 100 cr in ind?

100 crores collection in India - 4 days. 👍

Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

100 cr in India.....ONLY HINDI.

https://twitter.com/YashSRK17/status/1739035005651931238?s=20

Can someone start a tracker for excuses

Anna Vetticad review…her rating is 1.75

https://x.com/annavetticad/status/1738884856912978213?s=46&t=DAl3urN5OT5DAWGWEmZLXA

https://annavetticadgoes2themovies.blogspot.com/2023/12/review-789-dunki.html?m=1

Some highlights from the review

There’s always a first time for everything. Your first love. Your first kiss. Your first paycheck. Even your first boring film.

Now there’s a word I never expected to use for a Rajkumar Hirani venture. Yet “boring” is the aptest adjective for the director’s latest film Dunki that he has also co-written with Abhijat Joshi and Kanika Dhillon. Whatever criticism Hirani’s previous works may have deserved (3 Idiots featured that balaatkaar ‘joke’, it starred a 44-year-old as a teen, it favoured broad brush strokes over nuance as did PK, and Sanju was PR for Sanjay Dutt) none of them could be accused of dullness. Much about 3 Idiots was fun. PK was entertaining and brave. Ranbir Kapoor aced Sanju. Above all these, is the joyous Munnabhai series. Dunki feels like it was made by someone else.

The sexual chemistry between Khan and Pannu is zilch, which makes the blaring song “Ho aisa waisa ishq nahin, yeh ishq hai Raanjhe waala” sound ridiculous in a painfully unconvincing romantic scene. The fault lies not with the song, but with the scenario.

Frankly, the chemistry between all the characters in Dunki is down to zero.

Still, Pannu gets the space she deserves, which is unusual for a male-superstar-led Indian film (case in point: the short shrift given to Nayanthara in Jawan). She and Grover are good. So is Vicky Kaushal in a cameo. Kocchar and Boman Irani (who plays the game English coach Geetu Gulati) can be excused for hamming in their intentionally OTT comedy scenes

But Khan cannot be given such leeway. His over-acting is especially jarring in intense exchanges, and is shown up by successive scenes in which he and Pannu are emotional, she with restraint, he with face all a-quiver.
Someone please revive the more controlled SRK of Swades, Chak De! India and Fan, or the star who was comfortable enough with his age to make it look sexy in Dear Zindagi.

For a truly intelligent recent account of an Indian illegal immigrant in the US, try catching Danish Renzu’s heart-wrenching The Illegal (English, 2021) starring Suraj Sharma.

Dunki is an over-wrought, over-stretched, over-crowded sample of cinematic mediocrity, marked by clunky writing and puerile politics – an inexplicably incompetent film coming from one of the most successful teams in Hindi film history.

Originally posted by: Befikre

Also, what was Hirani trying to propagate through the film? That illegal immigration is not bad, or that couñtries should open their borders for everyone? 🤦‍♀️😂😂😂 That's the dumbest shit ever. Like why should countries open their borders for everyone? Imagine all the religious, cultural and economic Terrorism that would cause.

All the problem India has because of backwardness, population and mentality of people, other countries will start having those. What's the point of preaching this same thing again and again. So cringe.

I see you completely missed the entire point of the movie.

https://x.com/rajbansal9/status/1739090225681564018?s=46&t=gqwFCxRkfHkicr6DF8egng

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

https://x.com/rajbansal9/status/1739090225681564018?s=46&t=gqwFCxRkfHkicr6DF8egng

Tomorrow?

Originally posted by: SoniRita

Yes most ppl liked it, those who didnt liked it are fan of action only, those who didnt liked arent fan of pure cinema, they r fan of something else. anyway I hope ppl go n watch this movie atleast once, worth watching for sure.

That's a very generalized statement and doesn't apply to everyone.

I don't like action movies, didn't even bother watching Animal because of violence. And I love pure cinema, give me 3 idiots and munnabhai any day. But Dunki just didn't work for me. It's just as simple as that. Nothing worked for me in the movie.

The thing is that I have high expectations from every Hirani movie and rightly so when he has made such masterpieces. Dunki just fell flat so much so that I don't think I will expect much from Hirani anymore. It's good in a way lol.

Originally posted by: FreeBird03

That's a very generalized statement and doesn't apply to everyone.