Desi Boyz (2011)

Brilliant and touching

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

This movie was so entertaining and enjoyable I enjoyed watching this blockbuster film and it gave me chills every time Nice songs they are brilliant like I like the title track and all songs are super duper hit Akshay Kumar is superb John is brilliant deepika is great the other artists have great performances Great story line and a wonderful screenplay Overall 8/10

Rohit Dhawan's 'Desi Boyz' is pretty much another typical retarded Akshay Kumar comedy that is set in London. Obviously Dhawan and his producers are ashamed of India that they had to film in rich Europe. Anyway, here's how the 'story' goes. Jerry (Akshay Kumar), whose original name is Jignesh but he's so ashamed of his Indian background that he replaces it with the name of one of the most famous mice is a dropout who gets fired from every job that he lands. Money is scarce and he has to face a social worker who threatens to dump his annoying oh-look-how-cute-I-am orphan nephew at some foster parents's dwelling.Then there's Nick who recently gets let go of work. He's too proud to do any job that's below his qualification and would rather work as a stripper (but that's for later). His rich spoilt brat girlfriend (Deepika Padukone) thinks that people can't live on chicken role. Anyway, since Nick's too proud to accept a typist's job and desperately wants to shower his irritating girlfriend with lavish wedding, honeymoon and whatever nonsense, Dhawan portrays how desperate he is. So sad! (puke) Anyway, fastforward...a closeted pimp (Sanjay Dutt) invites them to his den. One thing leads to another and Nick becomes a stripper while Rocco, I mean, Jerry, becomes a harlot. They continue to screw around and eventually Nick's bimbo (Padukone) finds out and breaks off the engagement. Nick cries like an idiot and tries to justify his striptease to his fiancée. He also breaks up with Jerry.Rocco, I mean, Jerry, loses his annoying nephew to some foster parents and apparently he's earned enough money from prostitution to pay tuition and room and bored for Trinity College. It's amazing how a dropout can get accepted to an established college so easily. In Trinity College there also happens to be an openly racist professor whom no one seems to complain about. There he meets a hot professor (A sensational Chitrangda Singh) who helps him pass his exam and graduate. She really is hot.Fastforward...Nick and Jerry become friends again...fast forward...there's a trial in the end to discuss whether the kid should stay with foster parents or with Rocco, I mean Jerry. The trial also proves that all men in the movie, except for the two ex-strippers, are homosexuals. Jerry attempts to explain his prostitution. Now will he get the kid? (Dramatic music).Oh, and amidst all this nonsense, there are some atrociously bad songs that are visualized like amateur wannabe MTV videos. The non-Indian cast is dreadful as is John Abraham. Akshay Kumar plays the usual comedic role he's played in almost every movie of the last 10 years. Deepika Padukone is okay at best. Chitrangda Singh oozes hotness. Too bad her role is so cut short. Writing, direction, sound effects, editing etc are terrible.

I honestly love comedy, even starting to appreciate the less subtle blend, but Desi Boyz? Sorry just didn't work. I mean it did have a great idea with a relevant theme that a lot of people would identify with, but here's the problem, Desi Boyz? Never lives up to it.The plot (where the bulk of the problems lie) was, by far, the worst thing about the movie. The plot can be summed up through the following words: broken, confusing, irrelevant, uninformed, and poorly written. There were several questions raised in the movie that were never answered or even dealt with for that matter. Like, there was this theme of "Recession" which apparently had something to do with the characters, but it was never explained where (or what) these characters were to begin with.The comedy consistently misses the mark by a huge margin. This movie was intended to be a comedy although it's shockingly unfunny despite an almost foolproof set of comic circumstances and actors. It tries to be funny and thoughtful and ends up being incredibly and offensively stupid and trite.If there are any redeeming qualities it is the performances of John Abraham and Akshay Kumar who put a lot of effort into their characters. By all means it was lovely to see the "Garam Masala" pair again but sadly they doesn't have much to work with.

This really is an abysmal film. The plot makes no sense, with John and Akshay playing male prostitutes who, we're told, don't have sex with their clients, although quite what they actually do to earn their money is never fully explained. (Why didn't the writers just make them strippers? Would they have been sued by the makers of The Full Monty?)Akshay is involved in a nonsense story with an annoying little kid and somehow ends up studying at Oxford University. John is having woman troubles with Deepika, whose performance here is so wooden it's laughable. Yes, she may look nice, but the woman has zero star quality or charisma. If you can get past the storyline, you will surely be shocked at the outright amateurishness of the film-making. The sound dubbing is appalling, the editing is sloppy and disjointed and the whole thing is shot without any kind of style or imagination. It also doesn't know what it wants to be, with Akshay and Deepika talking to the camera in early scenes, before this trick is apparently forgotten for the rest of the movie and the finale breaks out into typical Bollywood melodrama.I am genuinely amazed that anyone could rate this highly. I'm pretty sure a bunch of college kids could make a more competent film.