Fukrey Returns

Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Varun Sharma, Priya Anand, Richa Chaddha, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathi
Rated: 5/10
It should have been a rollicking return of these fukrey boys and Bholi Punjaban but the reunion does not pan quite as well as the 2013 original. The comic act is there, but only in bits and pieces and sadly a bit too contrived, engineered and struggling.

Amid all the humour that may not measure up to your polished expectations the frontbench comedy has some laughs in it, or so the part of the guffawing cinema halls suggested. Choocha is Choocha on a déjàchu as he quite funnily putsdéjà vu and the rest of his friends try to build up a story all their own.
Richa Chaddha as Bholi Punjaban has a ring of familiarity around her but the fear quotient that surrounds her relationships in the underworld seem to be too slipshod even though her over the top dressing sense catches your attention.
Pankaj Tripathi being the flavour of the season gets noticed despite his slipshod un-fleshed role killing his real potential. All else is a laboured act that needed to be rechecked and redone before being thrown open to the public — that too an expectant public dying to laugh at anything and everything.
The story has just been picked up from here and there and hence lacks cohesiveness and does not have very many real intentions to make a mark, even though Choocha is as good as ever and wants to go to Goya (Goa) to have some fun. There’s a zoo, a tiger cub and a tigress too, thrown in to enhance the nonsensical even though the zoo is perpetually closed for renovation.

A treasure hunt, an unscrupulous mantra, a lottery scam and the boys will be boys syndrome makes this one something that you may term “optional”.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 10 December, 2017


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