Bunty Aur Babli 2 

Directed by : Varun V. Sharma

Yeh world hai na world, ismein 2 tareeke ke log hote hai..
Pehle woh jo sadak pe khode huye gadde ko ignore karke side se nikal jaate hai.
Aur doosre woh jo ruk ke poochte hai ki gadda kisne khoda, kyun khoda, aur agar khod diya toh bharega kab ?
Aur ek teesre tareeke ke bhi log hote hai tumhari tarah, jo aankhein hote huye bhi andhe bankar uss gadde mein gir jaate hai. 


Spoilers ahead.. 


When Inspector Jatayu Singh (Pankaj Tripathi) informs the original Bunty/Rakesh Trivedi (Saif Ali Khan) and Babli/Vimmi Trivedi (Rani Mukerji) that someone is using their brand and conning people. Both Rakesh and Vimmi decide to come out of retirement to help catch the new Bunty/Kunal Singh (Siddhant Chaturvedi) and Babli/Sonia Rawat (Sharvari Wagh). 

To be honest, the Rani-Abhishek version despite being fun wasn't really a film that I had totally loved. But atleast it was entertaining for most parts which Bunty Aur Babli 2 isn't. Siddhant Chaturvedi felt like he was still in MC Sher (his character in Gully Boy) hangover and there's not much to like about Sharvari too, both of them are very weakly written characters. We hardly get enough flashback about them to be able to decide why really should we not want them get caught.

What disappointed me most was that even Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherji gets very few scenes to shine through. Same goes for the ever reliable Pankaj Tripathi. The final nail in the coffin is the music which is below average, besides 'Luv You' track I didn't like anything.  Overall, a film that I doesn't qualify even in the decent one time watch category. 

My Rating : 3.5/10



Bhuj : The Pride of India 

Directed by : Abhishek Dudhaiya

Agar Taj Mahal pyaar ki nishani hai, toh hindustan tere baap ki kahani hai. 


Spoilers ahead.. 


Based on the 1971 India-Pakistan war, when the Bhuj airbase is attacked and it takes a brave effort from 300 women of Madhapur in Gujarat to repair the damaged airstrip. Its a race against time as the IAF squadron leader Vijay Karnik (Ajay Devgn) wants the runway ready so that Pakistan soldiers can't reach and capture the Bhuj airport. 

Its a movie where almost every scene has a problem attached to it. The director and editor either were in lazy mood or just didn't care, there's one scene where a time bomb explodes and Vijay's reaction to it comes as an afterthought. Funny thing is, director didn't care to have a re-take or atleast avoid this shot visible at the editing table. Numerous flashbacks are shown while action scene is ongoing. And the action scenes are so poorly choreographed, you could hardly see what's going on, specially referring to the airplane scenes. Feel for the wife of Vijay Karnik (Pranitha) who doesn't get a single dialogue.

The screenplay is so confused and disjointed that you are wondering which plot actually matters here. Ajay Devgn is sleepwalking through most of the part delivering lines for the sake. Even the decently done spy role by Heena Rehman (Nora Fatehi) creates no impact at all. The routine cliches are all there, be it jingoism or never ending motivation dialogues and there's Pagi (Sanjay Dutt) who is so powerful that he single handedly kills every Pakistan soldiers who are so brainless they can't use a gun and knock him down. 

The only place this movie could had worked was the 300 Madhapur women effort lead by Sunderben (Sonakshi Sinha) but my god what was that, it almost felt like Sonakshi was clearing her image (that KBC decable) by going nonstop aarti puja and references to God. You are fighting against time, and here we see them going at a snail's place as if they are told that Pakistan soldiers won't make it there so chill. And what was that final scene where Vijay used truck to make the plane land, did that happen in real too? This also makes me wonder if all this is really cinematic liberties, surely the real history didn't have proceedings happening in this bizarre manner. 

In the end, its hard to decide which audience Bhuj was made for, maybe the die hard patriotics will still find something out of this. For me, I just  got to know little bit about this runway and 300 women effort history, as for the film, my growing age would make sure I will not remember what I had seen in Bhuj. 

My Rating : 1/10