Happy Patel Khatarnak Jasoos review: Vir gati ko prapt…

Happy Patel Khatarnaak JasoosDirector Vir Das Kavi ShastriActors Vir Das Mithila PalkarRating 1 starThis film starts off with Aamir Khan playing one Don Mario a family man with his tongue firmly hanging from his cheek going all Goan in 1991 mdash battling a couple of goras as hersquos killed off in this opening sequence itselfAamir bit of a behroopiyashapeshifter himself on the bigscreen can be funny nearly always even in ads as a result Hersquos the reason Irsquove showed up for Happy Patel Not because hersquos the lead actorBut that hersquos the producer having pulled off in the past a couple of pix traversing political comedy Peepli Live 2010 to complete madcap Delhi Belly 2011 Happy PottyPatel decidedly belongs to the lattertoilet genreThe tone hence is set with a carchase involving Premier 118 NEs and the don who gets shot at but is still chilling with his kids wifeOnly the said prologue thatrsquos supposed to draw you into this supposedly wacky world feels like such unfiltered abruptly unedited rushes of a film mdash they sufficiently prepare you instead for the similarly shoddily shot disjointed breathless randomness without contextcare to follow over the next couple of hoursIf you donrsquot connect from the get go yoursquore gone no Whether or not in GoaThe lead actor is of course standup comedian Vir Das used to setups and punchlines whorsquos cowritten codirected this picIrsquod blindly pay for his onstage comedy as I do even when hersquos testing new material with audiences for guineapigs where hersquos better still like cricketers on the netBut a movie let alone a farce is another beast altogether The prologue here switches to 2025 Goa in a place called Panjor that rhymes with Tanjore sounds like the Punjabi expletive for juvenile humourVir plays a Brit boy failed spy with two white dudes for dads sent into Goa on an espionage mission that took me forever to figure if I have at all for the movie to make baselevel senseBeyond that I was placing this in my head as Full Monty kinda British workingclass humour or an NRI movie to begin withAnd that Happy Patel I suppose must rescue a Brit woman from the clutches of the Goan female villain Mona Singh dipping hashbrowns into tea locally developing fairness creams that permanently turn brown into whitesNo knock Surely therersquos subtext Multiple injokes too Or maybe all of this sounds funny at a scriptnarration or rehearsals in a roomAs Happy quite sadly goes along meeting local dancer Mithila Palkar sardar BFF Sharib Hashmi three female cops making cameos a white guy called Tom whenever his name is unwittingly called outhellipThe dialogue humour is chiefly over Happy screwing up his Hindi Scenes range from death by qawwali to a restaurant with one table None of it lands Because frankly it never took offI can guess if not see why this feels flat Probably the lack of the rudimentary handy craft of a wider story to follow mdash so the audience can gladly slip into the odd inconsistencies that appear now and then to remind them this is a screwball comedy after allIn a filmy sorta way that storyrsquos gotta be so believable right Itrsquos what happens within it that hence feels funnyTake the genrersquos best mdash Andaaz Apna Apna Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro down to the most recent Madgaon Express with characters you still invest your emotions in And yoursquoll know what I meanOr why Irsquove been fidgeting in my theatre wondering if this variety of pseudo parody passes for subversion anymore when the broader middleoftheroad as mainstream seems dead at the cinemas anywayBut what if I wasnrsquot in the cinema Maybe this could go well with midnight munchies and substances that excite such cravings Who knows maybe mdash and that people will discover it online seeing it quite differentlyThis is Virrsquos directorial debut Hersquos easily the most productive artiste I know having delivered his memoir shortly after a Netflix special And this is perhaps his first theatrical release as the lsquoin amp asrsquo lead if not since foreverBy the time the film descends to its masterchef climax I groan if we must also martyr ourselves to this dream come true mdash go lsquoVir gati ko praptrsquo mdash when creativity has been so collectively put to sleep Ah well

Happy Patel Khatarnak Jasoos review: Vir gati ko prapt…

Happy Patel: Khatarnaak Jasoos
Director: Vir Das, Kavi Shastri
Actors: Vir Das, Mithila Palkar
Rating: 1 star

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Happy Patel: Khatarnaak JasoosDirector: Vir Das, Kavi ShastriActors: Vir Das, Mithila PalkarRating: 1 star

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Happy Patel: Khatarnaak Jasoos
Director: Vir Das, Kavi Shastri
Actors: Vir Das, Mithila Palkar
Rating: 1 star