Tarun Dudeja’s ‘Dhak Dhak’ is a by-the-numbers female-bonding / empowerment story woven around a biking challenge

Four women decide to undertake a bike ride to Khardung la, one of the highest motorable roads in the world. Along this road trip, they bicker and they bond and they receive life lessons, sometimes from something as simple as a butterfly emerging from its pupa. This is the broad template of this sub-genre, so there’s nothing that can be done about that. But the opening is interesting. Instead of setting up these women and their lives, Tarun Dudeja’s film plunges us into the bike ride, and quickly establishes the four characters’“types”. Sanjana Sanghi (as Manjari) plays the easily scared one. Fatima Sana Shaikh (Sky) is the alpha female of the group, and she’s the scarred, bitter one. Ratna Pathak Shah (Mahi) is the maternal one, and Dia Mirza (Uzma) is an enterprising Muslim housewife whose spark has vanished over time, thanks to a bad marriage.

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