Dhanak: Good old simple Kukunoor

Cast: Hetal Gadda, Krrish Chhabria, Vipin Sharma, Gulfam Khan, Vibha Chibber

Rated: 6/10

Simple, uncomplicated and very much Kukunoor,Dhanak is a straightforward tale of hope and goodness told through a cross-country padyatraof two siblings, one blind but funny and the other determined but naive.

The brother is blind and the sister is his light. Both are school children who make short of long walks to school bringing the Salman-SRK rivalry to the forefront in their own endearing manner.

After being orphaned in a Pushkar mela stampede, they live in a dhaani deep in Rajasthan with a cruel chachi and a well-meaning but hen-pecked chacha. But they are happy despite their situation and the thread of happiness and hope runs throughout the film from which you return with a happy song on your lips.

Writer-director Nagesh Kukunoor returns with Dhanak after a long hiatus and makes sure that this simple love story of siblings who take on an unending journey to reach Shah Rukh Khan, who the sister believes can cure her younger brother’s blindness, is taken in right spirit and with a lot of positives.

He does well as does his story and the two child artistes who make you smile as Rajasthan’s ways are put into the ambience in a manner that takes your heart. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 19 June, 2016