Dharam Sankat Mein (Hindi)
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Today, there's no bigger business than the business of religion. Be it in terms of donations or memorabilia or status and statuettes of your deities or requisite paraphernalia and fees to properly conduct your duties towards your respective Gods and Goddesses or "special charges" that let you cut ahead in queues at temples, you've got to spend money to pray for money. Blessings don't come for free. Nothing gets done without greasing a few palms.So call it irony or twist of fate or divine intervention by the Lord of your choosing, but the very films that poke fun at the religion of having a religion have become lucrative business opportunities themselves. The trend that began with the superhit Paresh Rawal-starrer OMG: Oh My God was taken to another level with the record-breaking, blockbuster success of Rajkumar Hirani's P.K., which made so much money that it made the bank balances of some very well-known babas look like loose change.
 

 

DVD Features:Dolby Digital 5.1,Anamorphic WideScreen,NTSC All Regions, English Subtitles
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, ANNU KAPOOR, Murli Sharma
Director: Fuwad Khan
Producer: Sajjad Chunawala, Shariq Patel
Production Co: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Trigno Media
Music Director: Meet Bros Anjan Ankit, Sachin Gupta, Jatinder Shah
 
 
It can be no doubt that Fuwad Khan had the right idea in mind in tackling the religious contrivances prevalent in our country by making the protagonist belong to both of the warring factions - Hindus and Muslims. But when a consortium of 4 writers cannot comfortably and entertainingly adapt an already proven script (of The Infidels) into a barely 2-hour long running length, you know you're in trouble. To add to that, Dharam Sankat Mein has nothing new to add to the already-fresh-in-our-minds arguments from two other very successful films. Even the things that it does try to say, it does so in a completely unconvincing fashion.It's the performances by the lead cast where the film manages to save face. Paresh Rawal easily slips back into the voice-of-the-non-believer type role, and anchors an otherwise wobbly film on his shoulders towards the finish line. Despite tonal and plot inconsistencies, he keeps you from abandoning the film completely with his central performance. Annu Kapoor is in top form too, in the role of too-long-a-name-for-me-to-remember Muslim, and provides entertaining support to Rawal. Naseeruddin Shah seems to be having tons of fun in his small part as Neelanand Baba. The remaining cast of fringe actors ham up the film more than a ham sandwich.
 
Overall, it's impossible to deny the film's goods intentions at exposing the hypocrisy of our religious sects. But it's also impossible to look past the fact that the film is more of an attempt to cash in on the now-popular genre of religious mocking than to make a novel film with a heart and mind of its own. With very few moments of fun sandwiched between long stretches of snoozing, Dharam Sankat Mein should be avoided like the ashram of a self-proclaimed baba.
 

 

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