Dhawan Dhamaka: Part Deux |  2009-04-14

David readies to pass on the proverbial baton!

You know, there should be a rule against something like this. Only one Dhawan at a time in the film industry please!

But, apparently Santa‘s shut shop and retired to Miami, because no one replied to our prayers.




David Dhawan is still at it with all guns blazing, and has even managed to make time to train Dhawan Junior in cinematic mediocrity along the way.

In most cases we‘d let out a collective ‘Awww!‘ but we‘re too busy trying to straighten our curling sideburns! Seriously, think about it, imagine the banality that is David Dhawan‘s cinema and then imagine his son (raging hormones, Firangi education and daddy‘s money included) trying to top all of that to make his mark in Bollywood!

Is there no justice?

Well, there is hope, maybe!

While Dhawan senior refuses to put down the microphone, and ignores our protests and proceeds right along with the next schedule of ‘Hook Ya Crook‘, Bonny lad Rohit Dhawan‘s directorial debut seems to be getting a little delayed (read hopefully shelved).

Of course, as is tradition, David comes galloping to his son‘s rescue with the same, ‘Oh we intended it this way, really we did‘ spiel!

He even makes the gaffe of declaring that he‘s earned enough goodwill in the industry to ensure his son doesn‘t bomb and in the same breath announces that Akshay Kumar will be starring in his son‘s directorial debut!

Pulling in some favours to get the wobbly wheels of Rohit‘s career in motion, how very Bachchan-esque!

Hopefully by then my immigration to Alaska will come through and I won‘t have to bear witness to that monstrosity!

But this much I can say for sure; Rohit Dhawan will remake a Hollywood film... in the grand tradition of the Dhawan clan. Why even as I write, David is dodging insinuations of ‘Hook Ya Crook‘ being a rip off of ‘The longest Yard‘.

He retorts that he‘s having fun working with a completely new set of people, and that it‘s a prison film and some things are bound to be similar Dhawan insists that he‘s trying to ‘reinvent himself‘.

In the twilight years! Really? It invokes the same feeling as your grandmother wanting to get her nipples pierced!

*Shudder*