Dil bole Hadippa

My Rating: 3 stars
First Hockey and now cricket. Yashraj seems to be believing that marrying bollywood with Sport is the formula for a superhit. Naaa not really yash uncle.
Dil Bole is about Anupam Kher, one of the rich men of that part of Punjab, has a team of players who play the Aman Cup every year with a team from Pakistan, which is owned by his childhood friend, played by Dalip Tahil. For the last eight or nine years, Pakistan has been thrashing Kher's team. After yet another loss, he calls in his son Rohan, (Shahid) from England, on the pretext that he has a heart attack. He has been long separated from his wife, played by Poonam Dhillon who lives in London with their only son. Rohan learns a little about love and India when he encounters Veera. She, on the other hand, dresses up as a sardar and gets herself selected in the trials for the Aman Cup. She is easily the team's best batsman and has the ability to hammer every ball of an over for a sixer. Day lighting as Veer on the cricket field and Veera in the Sarason Ka Khet, she succeeds in getting Rohan to fall in love with her and India. But Shahid discovers her fraud in the middle of the match and is stung by her deceit and misreads it. He is left with no other option but to allow her to bat when his team is down to nine wickets with only him standing on the other end. After that Veera takes over as Veer and slams the opposition for sixes galore. The film then moves to its logical conclusion and all ends happily.
What I like about the Yashraj movies is their high production values but when u have a not so powerful script accompanied by a debut director then all goes down the drain. Shahid has matured in his acting and you can now see that he is not trying to copy Shahrukh. Rani suits this role completely and is her sheer charm in both the character that really uplift the movie.
Surely a one time watch.