
Actress: Richa Chadda
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 14th June, 2013
Singers: Kailash Kher, Mika Singh
Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Varun Sharma, Richa Chadda, Vishakha Singh, Priya Anand, Pankaj Tripathi
Writer/s: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba, Vipul Vig
Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba
Producer/s: Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani
Music Director: Ram Sampat
Singer/s: Mika Singh, Kailash Kher, Keerthi Sagathia, Clinton Cerejo, Ram Sampat, Rana Majumdar, Tarannum Malik, Sona Mohapatra
Plot: College. Three of the most important years of your life. Three years of studies (at times) and sheer indulgence. Indulgence in all the little pleasures that a carefree life has to offer. But it isn’t always about ragging, fuchcha parties, college fests, raves and churning out ways to whack some extra pocket money from your parents. It’s sometimes hard, ugly and complicated. More so, when you really need to get admission in the coolest college in town and you know you don’t deserve it. And to top that, you get yourself involved in the most bizarre situations that could crack you into pieces before you could crack it.
Wild Wild Punjab Movie Review Rating:
Star Cast: Varun Sharma, Jassie Gill, Sunny Singh, Manjot Singh, Patralekha, Ishita Raj, Gopal Datt
Director: Simarpreet Singh
What’s Good: Undemanding watch to relax at home with fun in spurts
What’s Bad: Stereotyping an already over-hyped Punjabi ethos and some toilet and sexist ‘humor’
Loo Break: Tussi ghar par hi to ho—so anytime you want!
Watch or Not?: Depends on what you like for home viewing!
Language: Hindi
Available On: Netflix
Runtime: 110 minutes
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When Rajesh Khanna (!) is ditched by his girl for her boss, he wants to end his life. His buddies swarm around him and tell him to teach her a lesson instead, so he will feel good by telling her that he is moving on. For that, they have to reach her wedding venue at Pathankot and that means using Honey Singh’s beloved—his vehicle named Paro. And the road trip is bound to be anything but uneventful!
Wild Wild Punjab Movie Review: Script Analysis
When we say “Road trip” for a movie, whether serious or comic, it must involve misadventures and troubles of miscellaneous hues. This being ‘Wild, wild’ Punjab, it means booze, babes, drug mafias, and the law. Not to forget the deadline of the wedding the buddies intend to gatecrash and the complete surprises—and (for the characters) the shocks!
Rajesh (Varun Sharma) and his three supportive cronies, Honey Singh (Manjot Singh), Maan Arora (Sunny Singh) and Gaurav Jain (Jassie Gill) first land at a wedding soiree (out of choice!) where they sing, dance and get sozzled with free booze. Next morning, two of them have shed their (happily only!) outer garments and an already engaged-to-be-married Gaurav has acquired a bride, Radha (Patralekha Paul).
The Famous Five (apologies to Enid Blyton) now resume the road trip and the contretemps they face include Meera, a college girl in trouble (Ishita Raj) and her mysterious bottle of ‘Homeopathic pills’, a toll booth that they cause to explode (How? Well, that is the closest the humor gets to reprising the unpalatable Fukrey 3!) and a moody policeman (Rajesh Sharma). There are also some goons who are after Meera. Needless to say, Maan falls for Meera.
Then we have ‘small’ issues of pistols that are either locked or misfire, a Jain father (Gopal Datt) who treats his son in the way dirt would refuse to be treated. Of course, the goons help the ‘misadventurous’ cavalcade land at the correct spot where Rajesh’s ex-flame is getting hitched. And now, Luv Ranjan comes into his misogynist own and yet again gets his Pyaar Ka Punch-Nama-meets-Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety tint gleaming.
The humor is frequently toilet level (like Rajesh’s backside being shot and the bullet being removed by a vet—a warped inspiration here from Bhediya maybe!) or sexist (girls are described as willing sex objects who submit to men in cars), while there are superficial emotions as well.
Having shown the Jain community generally as dense, dowry-demanding and undemocratic (Gaurav’s martinet father is played by Gopal Datt with aplomb), the writers decide to play safe and do not show what happens to Gaurav in the end. A tepid remark from Radha that she will win over his family is all that we (and Gaurav) get. By this time, the writers have done sufficient damage to their own clan of Punjabis anyway.
But all this is a serious view. And when I reflect upon it, I find it of little consequence; for this film is another ‘Shut your brains and just enjoy’ kind of whacky adventure and is thoughtfully released on an OTT platform so that one can just snuggle up with family, friends and fried papad for 110 minutes of simple fun.
Wild Wild Punjab Movie Review: Star Performance
Manjot Singh, as the intense and pragmatic Honey Singh, clearly outshines the rest, which is presumably why he has been imported from the Fukrey franchise. That he makes his love for Paro so intense that he is ready to end himself with her (no spoilers here) is a nice touch in a mad adventure. I liked Sunny Singh’s pure Punjabi avatar and funky hairdo. Varun Sharma is thankfully not as irritating as normal (read mainly in the Fukrey franchise!). Jassie Gill is okay, his laidback character not very dissimilar to what he did in Happy Bhag Jayegi Returns.
Rating: 1.5/5 stars (One And Half Stars)
Star cast: Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Varun Sharma, Richa Chadda, Vishakha Singh, Priya Anand, Pankaj Tripathi
Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba
What’s Good: The leading men with strong screen presence and infectious confidence give a few relishable performances.
What’s Bad: Efforted humor and ridiculously logic-less twists in the tale is excessively disappointing.
Loo break: Must take
Watch or Not?: Fukrey despite its fresh concept appears like a juvenile plot that squeezes out a forced laughter from you! The film with its slow pace and less mirthful story doesn’t work for me. While there are genuine good moments, along with good acting from its actors, overall the film doesn’t a reason strong enough to get recommended for watching!
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Four Fukrey Laundes in order to satisfy their dreams indulge in petty money making issues. Using dream analysis as their method of winning lottery, the four men for their own reasons gamble off a huge sum that they have lent from a dangerous local lady goon!When their dream analysis fails, hell breaks loose! Now with the police chasing them and the lady goon after their life, Fukrey is about 4 hopelessly miserly penniless men and their quest to get money and achieve their dreams!
Fukrey Review: Script Analysis
To begin with, the story is exceptionally fragmented! Refusing to allow the audience delve or feel too much with any of its characters, the story despite being a novel idea turns out to be extremely weak. There are too many unnecessary characters who all waver around pointlessly throughout the film without making any worthwhile emphasis on any important part of the film. Be it a minister’s P.A or Pulkit’s girlfriend, characters are randomly thrown in and they leave without making any significant mark on the story. The laugh sequences are rarely funny and there is nothing that will manage to have you rolling with laughter. Amusing you with its juvenile premise, the script itself was sketchy and sparsely developed. Poor show!
Fukrey Review: Star Performances
Of all the actors, the most commendable performances come from Pulkit Samrat and Varun Sharma. It is a treat watching both of their charming and energy packed performances! With a strong screen presence and a flawless idea of comic timing, the Samrat-Sharma duo does a bravura job!
Audiences have seen a better version of Manjeet and his straight faced humor, thus the man is absolutely wasted! However, Ali with his keen inclination towards playing it subtle fails to impress. In a 10 minute role in 3 Idiots, it is easier to place him than in Fukrey.
Richa Chadha is at the zenith of her impressionable work. As the bubbly and boisterous Bholi Punjaban, she is near perfect!
Fukrey Review: Direction, Music & Technical Aspects
Mrighdeep Lamba’s Fukrey is anything but a laugh riot. I had to give in a lot of effort to keep myself amused and engrossed throughout the film! Failing to pinpoint which genre did the director want the film to belong to, I presume he had attempted to make a comedy, which did not have any fun, entertainment or laugh factor in it. Gallons of lewd language along with dollops of ridiculous ideas like dreams helping people win lottery, Lamba’s baseless story doesn’t do the film any good. Despite a well taut screenplay and smart editing, it is solely the script’s fault that this film doesn’t remotely achieve what it tries to!
Fukrey Review: The Last Word
Fukrey was a film that heavily disappointed me! As someone who went loaded with expectations, I did not see any honesty in the shallow plot hurriedly translated into a movie. With shabbily etched out characters and their largely flimsy issues, it is the lack of adequate depth in the story that digs its grave. I am going with a 1.5/5 for Fukrey. With that concept, something way more earnest could have been woven, but in the end it is all the novelty and the great acting thoroughly wasted.
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Fukrey released on 14th June, 2013.
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