De Taali is a fully comedy, funny and youthful film directed by E Niwas. The movie is all about friendship and love, but the music accompanying it gives it a somber mood. With the credits roll on the screen one would get the impression that this is a serious film.
E Niwas in an attempt to outdo his own 'Love ke liye kuch bhi karega' misfires big time. The plot is headed nowhere with just a bunch of songs shot at various eye catchy locations. From starting off as a lovey dovey tale of 3 friends to a kidnapping affair with the entrance of a foxy Rimi Sen , 'De Taali' is nowhere close to a fun film.
The movie is about Abhi, (Amu) Ayesha Takia and (Paglu) Riteish Deshmukh, all great friends. Abhi is forever falling in love while Paglu and Amu freeload on various trips abroad. This fact is highlighted when Kartika enters Abhi's life. Kartika, it appears has schemed her way into Abhi's heart while Paglu is hell-bent on seeing Abhi and Amu married. How they try to ward off the 'Kartika threat' is what the movie is all about.
E Niwas makes an attempt to package his film with some eye candy by squeezing in cameos from Neha Dhupia, Anjana Sukhani ,Hrisitha Bhatt but they all fall flat. Maybe Neha's cameo is a little funny with the 'Chitrakoot' element.
Riteish Deshmukh is adorable. This lad here is going from strength to strength. He has shown that comedy is his forte. Ayesha Takia too does well with this flick and is much better than her 'Sunday' performance. Aftab is just ok. Rimi Sen delivers in style. As the scheming Kartika, she weighs her options well before plunging into her role but seems to have lost her charm attempting to be the so called 'sexy' kind.
On the music front, the best song of the pack by Raja Hassan 'Maari Teetri' is missing from the film and instead all other tracks by Vishal Shekar seem a little too irrelevantly placed or comes as an overdose.
On the whole, the film De Taali will not do much better at box office as the script of the film is poor. The plot being a big letdown doesn't leave much for the film.
