Anand Kumar’s Desi Kattey, which hits theatres on Friday, didn’t raise our hope much with its trailer or pre-release promotions. It was a lost cause right from the word go. Trouble is, Desi Kattey is even worse than what we expected!
First up, it has an apology of a plot that falls flat on its face right from the word go: It’s about two orphans (Akhil and Jay) in a village in Uttar Pradesh, who make country-made pistols (therefore the film’s title). Don’t ask us where have you seen something similar in Bollywood. Anand Kumar added ‘friendship, dreams and sacrifices’ to this and thought it would be enough to make us remain in the hall for over two hours.
Kumar, who earlier directed Delhi Heights and Zila Ghaziabad, seems to be having a string of bad days in the office for long now. While the Jimmy Sheirgill-starrer was a decent watch, Zila Ghaziabad worked (it made around Rs 16 crore in the first week of its release, despite being trashed by critics) at the box office simply because of the macho/Robinhood image of Sanjay Dutt. Coming from the same stable, Desi Kattey doesn’t actually surprise.