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Bunty Aur Babli 2 Movie Review

SoftwareTechIT November 19, 2021

15 years have passed since Rakesh (Saif Ali Khan replacing Abhishek Bachchan) and Vimmi (Rani Mukerji) had their last con. They’ve devoted their lives to domestic bliss in Fursatganj. Rakesh is a ticket collector while Vimmi is a homemaker. It so happens that a new couple, engineering students Kunal (Siddhant Chaturvedi) and Sonia (Sharvari Wagh) take on the mantle of Bunty and Babli and start conning people on a grand scale. Inspector Jatayu Singh (Pankaj Tripathy) vows to catch them and unleashes the originals on their trail. It takes a crook to catch a crook, as they say, and thus begins a game of one-upmanship between the two pairs of crooks...


If one may recall, the original Bunty Aur Babli ended with Dashrath Singh (Amitabh Bachchan), coming back into the lives of Rakesh and Vimmi and asking them to become unofficial helpers of sorts to government agencies, using their knowledge to catch various fraudsters. So the possibility of a sequel was very much there. What’s surprising is that it took 15 years for it to evolve. Debutant director Varun V Sharma was given a gift-wrapped idea on a platter. But alas, he wasn’t able to do justice to this fabulous premise. The film starts off smoothly enough but later the story fizzles out. The director and his team of writers seem to be struggling to fit the various cons shown in the film into a coherent whole. Also, the progression from the original to the sequel too doesn’t seem natural. It all looks forced and the effort shows. While in the beginning, the disguises and the schemes of the new pair do bring a smile to your faces, the novelty soon wears off. And the second half starts looking like something from the Race franchise. You feel it’s been guest directed by Abbas-Mustan. We can’t comprehend how Rakesh and Vimmi, struggling with their middle-class existence, suddenly find the money to finance a layered con in the Gulf. The film goes into a tailspin in the second half and doesn’t come out of it till the end. 


While Rakesh and Vimmi have a backstory, Kunal and Sonia have none. We know next to nothing about them and that’s bothersome. The laughs surprisingly come out of the constant bickering of the elder pair. Saif and Rani have appeared in a number of movies together and have an easy camaraderie going, which translated well into this film as well. Both play larger-than-life characters but we don’t mind it as they’re so good essaying their roles. You do miss Abhishek Bachchan but Saif has managed to give the role his own spin. You can see he’s enjoying playing a middle-aged conman who has got back into the game after eons and is loving every minute of it. The same can be said for Rani. She makes Vimmi come alive through her interpretation and one can very well say one’s watching an older, mature avatar of the fiery girl from the 2005 film. Rani has been doing tough cookie characters like Mardaani and its good to see her letting her hair down doing comedy.

 

Siddhant and Sharvari play their parts with confidence and share a crackling chemistry. They make an easy-on-the-eye pair that are just what the doctor ordered for the film. However, the haphazard script has let their efforts down. Pankaj Tripathy has wisely stayed away from filling the hallowed shoes of Mr Bachchan and given his own interpretation to the role of a dogged lawman. The pink goggles remain, but the rest of it is pure Pankaj Tripathy. 


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