Bunty Aur Babli 2 :
Movie Review -
Bunty Aur Babli (2005) was a box office hit and has enjoyed a reasonable success over the years. The sequel for the con-comedy, 'Bunty Aur Babli 2', has come too late and it's totally useless and unnecessary. The comparison between these two is unavoidable but the fact that this film carries the brand and the characters forward is surely a commendable thing and perhaps the only good thing about it. The reason for it is, lots of franchise have gone with different characters and stories with the sequels just to cash on the brand values and fool audience, so thank God that this one has remained faithful to its base. YRF's new formula of con-comedy can't be called mediocre because even that would be a compliment for it.
Bunty and Babli are forced out of retirement after a spate of robberies with their trademark sigil start appearing across India. This Varun Sharma's script pits the old pair of Bunty and Babli against new set of the con artist. Then expectedly, the cat and mouse game begins and everything in those 140 minutes is highly predictable and mostly boring. To be frank, the formulas written in this film are too old to accept. I even bash these formulas when i see it in any films made before 1950s, then for 2021 it's too mediocre. Maybe, this new idea of bringing four con-artists together could have been formed interestingly but the lose screenplay makes it difficult. The screenplay struggles in the first half but then it shifts gear in the second half. There are some good enjoyable moments in the second half. Dialogues are decent which follows a typical local humor (sometimes irritating) along with fresh, youth oriented glamour. Bunty Aur Babli had a hit music album and some of the songs are still in our playlists. Compared to that, Bunty Aur Babli 2 music is way underwhelming.
Talking about performances, Bunty Aur Babli 2 is somehow better. Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji's chamistry is as natural as we see in any married couple but some of the scenes are terribly shot. In the second half, their glam appeal might attract you but that's not what i call Acting. The new set of Bunty And Babli is equally good. Siddhant Chaturvedi and Sharvari Wagh both get to perform lots of roles as con artists, actually more varities compared to the senior pair. From accents to looks to postures to glamour, everything they do is convincing. Pankaj Tripathi adds some laughter and you know how he does it. This guy a pro-level comedian and actor and he has proved it again.
Varun Sharma could have done a lot better in his debut film with the kind of brand he chose. It's good that it was his first innings so we don't really know what his calibre and potential is. Therefore, we can't bash him for falling down on the very first step he took. But yes we might do it if he repeats the same in future. Overall, Bunty Aur Babli 2 is terribly outdated but that's not that biggest issue. It fails to recognise the old wave cinema within mainstream zone is what makes it A Crap!
RATING - 4/10*
