‘Bunty Aur Babli 2’ movie review: An overblown reboot
Scenes are mounted like skits the place the younger and senior con artists are launched in a brand new set of guises after each couple of minutes
Often humorous, largely pretentious, this over-the-top reboot of the lovable con franchise spends extra time fussing over its model worth than telling a narrative. Vimmy Trivedi (Rani Mukerji) and Rakesh Trivedi (Saif Ali Khan rather than Abhishek Bachchan) are pressured out of their home bliss to tackle a brand new set of con artists (Siddharth Chaturvedi and Sharvari Wagh) who’ve performed a collection of heists utilizing the title of Bunty Aur Babli.
From giving Ganga river on lease below a public-private partnership scheme to a political chief gathering big donations on her birthday or for that matter rampant unemployment regardless of churning out engineers by the minute from personal training factories, writer-director Varun Sharma hints at real-life cases within the guise of humour however someway the screenplay feels extra like a Powerpoint presentation to influence a producer to spend money on his model.
Scenes are mounted like skits the place the younger and senior con artists are launched in a brand new set of guises after each couple of minutes. The con jobs work when the makers are in a position to promote them to the paying viewers, to not the gullible characters on display. When the accent has not been chewed sufficient, it irks. Pankaj Tripathi, because the wily police officer who ropes in Vimmy and Rakesh, exhibits how you can do it however the lead gamers are discovered wanting. After some extent, even the unassuming Tripathi seems at a loss as to how you can sail over a script the place every part is underlined with a bleeding marker.
One misses Jaideep Sahni’s writing within the authentic that seamlessly built-in the escapism to the restlessness of the unemployed youth within the new millennium. One seems for Gulzar’s lyrics that had put a which means to the goals of the small-town youth. Within the title of continuity, what we get is Vimmi’s vibrant clothes turning garish this time.
Siddharth is suitably cocky as he performs a variant of his Gully Boy character. He and Sharvari catch the attention, elevate the cool quotient of the franchise, little else.
Taking the chirpy Vimmi ahead, the dependable Rani is slightly too earnest right here. In an try and be the scene-stealer, she spoils fairly a couple of as a result of the author doesn’t present the fabric to match her high-pitched efficiency. Within the authentic, Abhishek, together with his brooding depth, proved to be an amazing foil to her however right here Saif, who’s often glorious in portraying tongue-in-cheek humour, appears to have been requested to maintain it loud and one-note. Maybe, it has been finished to create a distinction with the kids. However in a bid to look dated, you don’t must act old-fashioned. Vimmi and Rakesh maintain saying to one another to not be overdramatic however the makers don’t appear to pay any heed. In consequence, in the dead of night theatre, one hand retains trying to find the TV distant!
(’Bunty Aur Babli 2’ is presently operating in theatres)
