Lethargic! That’s the only word I can use to describe this movie. No matter how fresh you are and how wonderful your mood is when you start this movie, you will be yawning and feeling sleepy within no time. I am not exaggerating but when I couldn’t take it anymore and checked to see how much movie was still remaining, I was shocked to see that only 20 minutes had passed. I couldn’t watch it any further and hence, I wouldn’t recommend it to you.
The biggest mistake of Dry Day is that Jitendra Kumar is playing galli ka gunda. No matter how hard he tries, he fails to convince us that he is leading a pack. That gunda giri doesn’t suit him. Jitendra’s personality is such that you can easily sell him as Abhishek Tripathi in Panchayat or Neel in Cheesecake. He is the simple middle class guy who is navigating through life, like all of us. If you remember, there is a scene in Panchayat where all the gang gets in a fight with another group. Here, Abhishek Tripathi isn’t a hero. He is a common guy who is fighting another group with his own tribe.
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This isn’t entirely an actor’s fault though. Dry Day, overall, is also a dull and boring story. As and when it gets a political twist, you lose whatever less interest you had in it in the beginning. We have repeatedly seen politics through film-makers eyes and they have nothing new to offer us anymore. All they can do is present it in a new way. Dry Day didn’t do it.
Since I could gather courage to withstand the whole movie, I wouldn’t comment on the story or plot. Still, if you ask me whether you should watch Dry Day, I would say there’s no harm in skipping it.
