A new “Fukrey 3” movie appears on screens every five years, precisely like general elections, and like politicians, they make a lot of promises to the public but frequently lie to them. The plot of the first movie was simple: Choocha (Varun Sharma) experiences strange dreams, his closest friend Hunny (Pulkit Samrat) deciphers them, and with a little assistance from Lali (Manjot Singh) and Pandit Ji (Pankaj Tripathi), they are able to amass fortune. The second movie expanded on the eccentric escapades by introducing the idea of “Déjà Choo.” Now, in the third installment, the movie combines physical prowess with otherworldly skills by emphasizing perspiration, spit, pee, and feces.
We begin our journey in East Delhi as usual. While vying for office, Bholi Punjaban (Richa Chadha) is promoting a campaign on critical water-related environmental issues. She receives covert assistance from the criminal water tanker mafia, which has access to the office through a puppet minister, in order to succeed in her mission. The Fukreys are first enlisted to aid her mission, but things take a turn, motivating Bholi to devise a complex scheme and send them to South Africa. During a sequence of incidents there, including fleeing from a diamond mine and receiving electric shocks in a theme park, Choocha and Hunny learn a new aspect of their close relationship: their body fluids can make gasoline.
You did read that correctly. The weird nonsense that “Fukrey 3” tries to offer us is a product of filmmaker Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and writer Vipul Vig’s singular talents. The peculiar thing is that this isn’t even the most peculiar aspect of the movie. In one film, “Fukrey 3” combines slapstick humor, a fantasy adventure, political satire, a thriller with an environmental theme, and a reptilian-themed B-movie.
Particularly strange is the reptile perspective. While the other performers can’t be criticized, Pulkit Samrat has established himself as the intelligent one by clenching his mouth and rolling his eyes. Pankaj Tripathi, like Richa Chadha, largely sleepwalks through his roles. With his physical and comedic prowess showing through, Varun Sharma, in his typical form, is ideal as the naive Choocha. I had great expectations for Ali Fazal because he had a promising career thus far, but he fell short with this film (he effectively spoils it with a cameo).
The initial “Fukrey” stood out for a number of reasons when it was launched in 2013. Up until that point, Mumbai-based urban issues predominated in Hindi comic films. They had already established their method. On the other hand, Lamba’s politics in Jamnapaar, or Eastern Delhi, were distinct. There was a weirdly appealing quality of detachedness. Choocha, despite being parodied, had the air of a classmate. The little Kriti “Ambarsariya” was a cheery, adorable one. None of them receive praise for the series’ good aspects. They seem to be getting progressively stupid.
This represents a fundamental step backward for our comedy cycle. They keep becoming sillier and sillier.
