If you've watched the promos of ‘De Taali’, you'd predict a movie with immense youth power. You'd expect jokes, gimmicks and hordes of fun. But the movie is anything but this.

In contrast, it's a boring love story that portrays one of the actors as a modern-day ‘Devdas’ who hits the bottle when his girlfriend strikes on him. There's a twist as well, the kidnapping chapter, but the outcome nowhere calls for a single clap.

Starring Riteish Deshmukh, Ayesha Takia, Aftab Shivdasani, Rimi Sen, ‘De Taali’ loosely inspired by popular TV drama Dawson's Creek. 

The story of the film goes like this: Paglu (Riteish Deshmukh), Amu (Ayesha Takia) and Abhi (Aftab Shivdasaani) are best friends. Amu is the only girl amongst the two guys, though Paglu and Abhi don't treat her like one.

Amu loves Abhi, and Paglu, who feels that Amu, not Kartika (Rimmi Sen), is the right choice for Abhi. He is the one who makes her realize about her feelings for Abhi. Life takes a serious turn when Abhi falls in love with Kartika aka Anjali (Rimi Sen).

The starting part of the movie is quite well and the binding between the three friends is well established. Everything’s fine till Rimi Sen gets abducted at the interval point.

But the second hour of the film is totally lame and dim with the entry of characters including Pawan Malhotra, Rimi’s family angle etc and off course Mukul Dev’s search for his ‘Anjali’.

E Niwas doesn’t get in right this time. He knows the job well, but if you've noticed his last few outings as well as De Taali, you'd agree that he needs to concentrate on the script than making the frames look alluring.

E Niwas makes an effort to wrap his flick with some visual percept by squeezing in cameos from Neha Dhupia, Anjana Sukhani, Hrisitha Bhatt but they all fail utterly.

In the music front, the best song of the pack by Raja Hassan ‘Maari Teetri’ is just not there and instead all other songs by Vishal Shekar lack fizz.

The best performer of the movie is Riteish Deshmukh who is endearing and his character has some comic sense. Ayesha Takia is getting better with every film and Aftab’s recital is ok. Rimi Sen is so pale as the vamp in the film. Anupam Kher is wasted. Ditto for Pawan Malhotra and Mukul Dev.

On the whole, ‘De Taali’ is totally miserable and gets really annoying. It’s an apt case of the promos looking great and not the film.