REVIEW: Don Muthuswami

Somewhere in the second half of this film, a rip-off from Sly Stallone's Oscar, Mithun Chakraborty breaks into a two-second-long jig and shows you just why he is India's original 'Disco Dancer'. This 60-something actor may not be in the league of Amitabh Bachchan but the guy still packs a punch.

Now, Mithun has acted in the cult crap film Gunda many years ago. His son Mimoh repeated the feat in Jimmy (which is slowly but steadily inching towards that pedestal). [READ REVIEW: Jimmy is funny!] One would have hoped to see Mithun outdo his son. But very sadly he doesn't.

Mithun Chakraborty plays Don Muthuswami, a don (duh!) who is trying to leave his dirty past behind on the insistence of his father. The marriage of his daughter Sanjana (Hrishitaa Bhatt) thus becomes his first priority. But the adamant Sanjana refuses to marry Pradhan, the groom of her father's choice and an underworld don.

Meanwhile Preetam, Muthuswamy's manager has already expressed his desire to marry the don's daughter. But Preetam is unaware that the woman whose hand he seeks isn't really related to the Don.

The confusion gets worse as the story drags on and on and on, with more characters making entries and trying really hard to tickle our funny bones. But at the end of some 100-odd minutes, you couldn't care less about who wants to marry whom and why on earth do a voluptuous domestic help's undergarments keep popping out of a large black bag.

Mithun's comeback

Though Guru is largely considered to be Mithunda's comeback film, Don Muthuswami has the star in a first full-length Bollywood film role after a long time. You can't say Mithun shines in this film. But with the kind of script and character, there is little scope for the guy to perform.

It's one thing to put him in a lungi and make a film like Agneepath. But try to make him look ridiculously funny in the publicity stills and extract a terrible performance out of him is perhaps unforgivable.

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