Toro Magnificencio

The reviews on IMDB are either paid for, or left by blind, diehard star fans. What went wrong for Dunki, according to me - 1. SRK was SRK, not the character 2. Tapsee was pretty much an NPC 3. Vicky & Vikram Kocchar acted so well, that the subpar acting of the leads was all the more visible 4. For the most part, it didn't feel like a Hirani film, maybe the fact that Gauri Khan was a co-producer may have influenced some creative choices 5. The emotional as well as comic aspects of the film were shallower than we are used to with Hirani movies 6. There was an uninhibited use of movie making clichés, lending a sort of staleness and predictability to the experience 7. There was tonal incongruence within scenes and among actors. I couldn't help but compare the funeral scene with Joy Lobo's funeral in 3 idiots, which was rendered way better back in the day 8. Hirani movies have been characterized by various subplots which got a shallow treatment this time around 9. Several philosophical standpoints in the film seemed problematic and not thought through 10. Unfortunately, despite the desperate tries of the make-up artists, SRK couldn't ACT young and Tapsee couldn't ACT old. Overall, it disappointed in waves, so much so that I couldn't sit through to the end.