Instead of supplying each other, though, these arcs seem to be fighting with each other. Nobody wins. It’s all so incoherent and patched-up that you can tell a belated framing device has been added for the viewer to follow. Believe it or not, it’s the voice-over of the phone. And it says pained things like “I was invented to reduce the distance, but I started to be used as a weapon…”. The dog of Dil Dhadakne Do is defeated. The annoying piggy-bank of Gullak has been annihilated.
You can also tell that Dial 1975 was made a while ago. It’s not that the film-making is dated, though the staging does itself no favours; the mysterious conversations between two officers (played by the late Tom Alter and Uday Chandra) unfold like moments of a stage-play gone rogue. The film opens as a character-based drama of a soldier who kills his own troops in a moment of disappointment during the Indo-China war, and eventually turns into a PTSD monster. Which would have been an interesting-enough film. He becomes an errant bullet for anyone who uses him as a hired gun.
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