“Dhamaal 4 Movie Review”
Newz Daddy Ratings: 1.5*/ 5
Genre: Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller, Biography
Lead Star Cast: Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Javed Jaafri, Sanjay Mishra, Ravi Kishan, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Esha Gupta, Anjali Anand
Writers: Paritosh Painter, Vedd Prakash, and Bunty Rathore
Directed by: Indra Kumar Gujral
Produced by: Ajay Devgn, Indrakumar Gujral, Kishan Kumar, Anand Pandit
Language: Hindi
Run Time: 2 hours and 23 minutes
Recommended: Definitely NO.
Platform: Theatres
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Movie Review: Dhamaal 4 – A Lazy, Flat, and Taxing Nostalgia Trap
Honestly, Dhamaal 4 is a bad movie. It arrived in theatres with almost no advertising. If you thought the movie Welcome 3 was silly, then Dhamaal 4 is even worse. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes long, but it has almost no good jokes; in fact, it has poor jokes.
The Story is Old and Boring
The story is exactly like the first movie from a long time ago. A group of greedy people are running after hidden treasure. This time, they look for treasure on an old pirate ship. The big “W” from the first movie is now turned into an “M.”
Also, the filmmakers put too many annoying advertisements for real-world brands right in the middle of the movie.
The Comedy: Flat, Juvenile, and Painfully Loud
If you laughed at the trailer’s standout scene—where the cast sits in water to check their bodies for “punctures”—congratulations, you’ve officially seen the only funny part of the entire movie. There are absolutely no surprises or twists left. The dialogue writing is the biggest villain of the film. We are subjected to nursery-level humour: rhyming “Guddu” with “fuddu,” bikes flying into the air when a heavy person sits on them, and agonisingly cringe-worthy lines from Ajay Devgn. Furthermore, listening to Sanjay Mishra say “Bro, Bro” 100 times in 100 minutes is enough to make your ears bleed.
Subplots and Performance Breakdown
Despite pre-release rumours claiming Ajay Devgn only had a cameo, make no mistake, this is entirely an Ajay Devgn film, though the entire ensemble gets equal, albeit wasted, screen time.
- The Good: Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffrey are the only saving graces who try to hold their own without overacting.
- The Bad: Riteish Deshmukh’s forced Bhojpuri accent divides opinion; it provides a brief, low-brow guilty pleasure for some, but quickly becomes gratingly irritating for others. His entire subplot revolves around hitting his screen-wife with cheap, regressive weight jokes; body shaming is not the right way to crack jokes.
- The Ugly: The absolute worst segment of the movie is a bizarre caveman (Adi-manav) love triangle featuring a “Bhabhi” character. It completely derails whatever logic was left and kills the comedy entirely, wasting a golden opportunity to trigger genuine nostalgia using the beloved characters of Manav and Adi.
Technical Disasters: Windows XP VFX and Noisy Music
The production value is an absolute mess. The movie relies heavily on VFX, but the execution is so poor that the green-screen/chroma backgrounds look like they were painted in MS Paint on Windows XP. Every single frame feels artificial and poorly rendered.
To top it all off, the movie completely lacks musical originality, going as far as to create a terrible, localised Hindi version of Money Heist’s iconic anthem, Bella Ciao.
Newz Daddy Ratings: ⭐ / 5 (1 out of 5 Stars)
Dhamaal 4 attempts to aggressively milk nostalgia by repeating the word “Dhamaal” a dozen times and dressing characters in their iconic original outfits, but you can’t recreate classic humour with lazy writing. The film even has the audacity to tease Dhamaal 5 during the climax, a peak display of self-obsession from the makers.
Family Guide:
The film is technically clean with no vulgarity or adult scenes, meaning you can watch it with your family. However, be warned: your family might just throw their slippers at you for making them sit through it.
Dear Ajay Devgn, only Drishyam 3 is allowed. Otherwise, this franchise will bankrupt the audience’s sanity.