Farrey Movie Review: Keen teen scene

FarreyDirector Soumendra PadhiActors Alizeh Sahil Mehta Prasanna BishtRating This is a film playing on a conflict with fairly low stakes if you ask me And that only makes sense considering itrsquos about a bunch of teenagers at schoolIn hindsight whatever happens during this time to do with academic education in particular more often than not has such low bearing on the rest of your life that one wonders why we fretted over small things like cracking an annual school exam anyway As if our existence depended on itIt does for a couple of rich kids in this filmmdashat a school so fancy that it doesnrsquot even have a school bus This phenomenon came into the Indian education system only a decade or two ago I suspect Which explains school fees so high that it should actively discourage you from having kids in the first placeOnly the reputation of such schools is still earned not by the economic class of their studentsmdashbut the colleges they get placed into eventually Hence the need to admit some hungry bright children as well Doesnrsquot matter what income group they come fromAs with two children from poor homes admitted into the lsquointernational schoolrsquo in this movie Itrsquos obvious that such kids will suffer from an inferiority complex by virtue of class that talent can transcend stillBut therersquos barely any insight in the picture on that account What you receive plentiful of is a swiftly running plot intense at key moments effectively releasing tension at certain othersThis film is a family production In the sense that itrsquos been produced by former actor Atul Agnihotri presented by Salman Khan marshalling resources to put together a vehicle to hoist the superstarrsquos niece Alizeh on whom the film is wholly centred One is rightly apprehensive of such vanity productionsExcept young charmingly understated Alizeh is easily the brightest spot in the film As is her character She plays a poor girl from an orphanage making it to a school beyond her economic meansShersquos a topper type having scored 102 per cent presumably in the Class X board exams How does one even score such marks Maybe the extra two per cent is for hitting 100100 alreadyHow does one even get to 100 per cent across all subjectsmdashsomething we notice regularly with cutoff percentages at colleges in Delhi where the film is set I guess with objectivetype question papers which is not the sort of tests blokes of my vintage grew up takingWhat could be the benefit of such a geniuslevel kid for the rich students shersquos surrounded by Well she could do with money They could do with her answers in the papers The swap is completeMercifully the impossibly affluent kids arenrsquot caricatured as totally tonedeaf bratty morons Which seemed more the case with the similarly set Netflix series Class 2023 adapted from the Spanish show EliteI kinda liked these designerlabel children as well Speaking of performancesmdashwhatrsquos there ever not to love about the supremely sorted Ronit Roy in any film He plays the orphanage warden hereFarrey is Delhi slang for cheat sheets slipped into an exam hall A cheating racket is in place in the pic The script from thereon hinges on what happens next As an audience do you at every point wish to know what happens next You do Thatrsquos the passing mark to begin with Totally cut to cut the job is tightly doneThe film is reportedly based on Nattawut Poonpiriyarsquos Bad Genius 2017 The original was a Thai blockbuster Making this a safer adaptation Also Asian cultures are seemingly similar especially when it comes to overemphasis on school gradesThe director Soumendra Padhi perceptively hit upon a popular cyber scam operating from BiharJharkhand with the Netflix series Jamtara Sabka Number Ayega 2020 Absolutely everyone has been through some onlinephone fraud or the other originating from an Indian small townThe connect of that subject is instantly universal The genre of Farrey isnrsquot As in itrsquos a teenaged drama or a drama about teenagers Sometimes I find it hard to access shows such as Sex Education for just that reasonGenZ like any generation are a world of their own But they do pique your interest donrsquot they As does Farrey simply for somewhat navigating that universe entertainingly enoughWhen was the last time I watched a movie entirely about desi high school kids Friday Night Plan 2023 starring Babil Khan on Netflixmdashlikewise a lowreturn breezeWhat about such a movie in a theatre Canrsquot recall I think wersquore still stuck on Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar 1992 And that foremost makes Farrey worth the ride On my way back of course I wasnrsquot once thinking of the film or its essential crisis And thatrsquos fine I guess

Farrey Movie Review: Keen teen scene

Farrey
Director: Soumendra Padhi
Actors: Alizeh, Sahil Mehta, Prasanna Bisht
Rating: ***

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Farrey Movie Review: Keen teen scene

FarreyDirector: Soumendra PadhiActors: Alizeh, Sahil Mehta, Prasanna BishtRating: ***

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Farrey
Director: Soumendra Padhi
Actors: Alizeh, Sahil Mehta, Prasanna Bisht
Rating: ***