Bunty Aur Babli 2: A still from the movie. (image courtesy: YRF,
Mold: Rani Mukerji, Saif Ali Khan, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Sharvari, Pankaj Tripathi
Director: Varun V Sharma
Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)
Give away hope immediately: free-flowing abandon Bunty and Babli Nowhere in its sequel. Bunty and Babli It’s a painstaking, highly sly attempt to build on the notion that the 2005 film stood on: two young people who are too ambitious for small towns turn into outlaw-rebels who try to lure the greedy to get away with their wealth. To use your instinctive gait.
Bunty Aur Babli 2 Opens in 2021. Bad loans, online fraud and phishing are the order of the day. It’s strange for two young men – one of them looking for funding for a start-up – to go to such lengths to dupe a group of crappy Delhi businessmen who want to have fun on an island who doesn’t exist or a greedy Varanasi mayor is convinced that he can lease the Ganges and use the water of the holy river as he pleases. Aren’t there easy ways to fill your pockets nowadays?
The actors – Rani Mukerji, the sole survivor of the original cast, joined by Saif Ali Khan, Siddhant Chaturvedi and debutante Sharvari Wagh – give it their collective best shot but are unable to defend. Bunty Aur Babli 2 From your terrible fate.
When it’s clear that everyone on screen is trying too hard to rise above the pedestrian, and the pressure is on to rekindle public enthusiasm for an idea that works perfectly in 2005, but Fails after 16 years, the aim of the effort is not only undermined, it is defeated.
First-timer Varun V. Sharma (who is also the screenwriter), Bunty Aur Babli 2 A throwback concoction that pits the original con cast against a pair of cocky upstarts who deceive people using the methods, names and insignia of crooks who were never caught and whose exploits are now folklore are part of.
Violation of the ‘brand’ gets the goat of Rakesh Trivedi (Khan) and his wife Vimmi (Mookerjee), who have settled in a small town house. The latter is happy with its fake designer clothes; The first is satisfied selling tickets at the railway station to fulfill his father’s wish.
Parents of a teenage boy, the Trivedi couple are pulled back into the life they were left behind a decade and a half ago by Deputy Superintendent of Police Jatayu Singh (Pankaj Tripathi). After making headlines after a daring hoax by two fraudsters who call themselves Bunty and Bali, the policeman believes that the two old-fashioned scammers are back in business. he arrests the middle-aged Bunty and Babli and locked them in the police station.
Naya Bunty and Babli attack again and Jatayu guesses that he is on the wrong track. He frees Rakesh and Vimmi, but sets a trap for the real culprits and catches them red-handed. His plans go awry as the cunning young hustler is always one step ahead of him. Eventually Rakesh and Vimmi resolve to get to the bottom of things and punish those who pose.
The action shifts from Delhi, Fursatganj and Varanasi to Goa and Abu Dhabi after Kunal (Chaturvedi) and Sonia (Wagh) escape from the corrupt politician’s house with a large sum of money recovered by Income Tax officials. But they don’t know how to convert unaccounted money into money that they can spend without the fear of being duped. The squabbles in the middle, the couple who once acted impunity as Bunty and Babli and, as it happens, haven’t lost any of their enthusiasm.
first half of Bunty Aur Babli 2 walkable. The second is barely up to scratch. The writing is pedestrian and the actors, especially the Queen, embrace the extravaganza aimed at giving pleasure. There’s no percentage in tomfoolery that spirals out of control in a movie that’s trying too hard to be funny.
The role, written for Pankaj Tripathi, an actor whose comedic abilities have never been in doubt, is particularly sketchy, especially if one pits it against screenwriter Jaideep Sahni for Amitabh Bachchan in the Shaad Ali directorial. Bunty and Babli. Rakesh Trivedi and Vimmi Saluja, two young daydreamers, met at a railway station and escaped by pulling off a series of daring thief jobs – including the sale of the Taj Mahal. Kunal’s ambitions are largely the same as those raised by Rakesh two decades ago. However, his adventures are part of a plan hatched by his girlfriend, who aspires to start a food app and bids goodbye to the deceit.
An introductory voiceover by Tripathi – In this Big B’s Yeh Jo World Hain Na Ise Mein Two Kinds of People Shades of Opening Salvo Bunty and Babli – Explains clearly. There was a time when the dreams of the youth trapped in the shackles of Uttar Pradesh were built around what they saw on television, heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Today, his ambitions stem from his exposure to social media.
Rakesh and Vimmi belong to the past; Kunal and Sonia represent the present. The clash of two generations of scam artists would have been even more fun if the earlier Bunty and Babli were allowed to set the pace for the two youngsters and not the other way around.
Comic timing becomes easy for Rani and Saif. They are plagued by intelligent cracks that are devoid of knowledge. Siddhant and Sharvari, dressed in a variety of outfits, make for a spirited screen pairing. Once again, the script plays poorly.
As Bunty Aur Babli 2 The wind blows, the senior pair kicks into top gear and starts teaching the younger pair a thing or two about the art of swindling people. But the matter is too late. Considering the note on which the film ends, another sequel seems to be very much on the cards. But if it is going to be a misfire of this magnitude, then it will be better for Bunty and Babli to get back in their circles. We would be very happy to live with the memories of 2005.
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