Fukrey 3 Movie Review: Ki fukrey painda hai!

Fukrey 3UA ComedyDir Mrigdeep Singh LambaCast Varun Sharma Richa Chadha Pankaj Tripathi Pulkit SamratRating 155Itrsquos been a decade since we first saw the frickinrsquo Fukrey 2013 which had a sequel 2017 that I skipped This is the third part Whatrsquos happened in the interim to these Delhi dudes This film does a clever job of a quick recap through lyrics in the song in its opening creditsAnyway I donrsquot remember much of what happened in their lives in the first outing either Thatrsquos the nature of the mumblecore genremdashyou remember moments and characters not so much the plot per seWhich going back to my note to self aka review of the first part I figure was about four teenagertypes then with one of them who dreams up weird things at night that hold the clue to a winning lottery number the following dayTogether they make pots of money from the supposedly illegal lottery trade In turn they get into a debt trap with Bholi Punjaban Richa Chadha a top racketeer in town In the sequel it seems they got to own a departmental store thanks to the Delhi chief ministerNone of which should matter if yoursquore watching this trequel which is essentially episodic entertainment Only the characters even the blockbuster song Ambarsariya remain the sameBholi Hunny Pulkit Samrat Lali Manjot Singh are there Ali Fazal isnrsquot inimitable Pankaj Tripathi as Pandit Ji is the addition The lead in a real sense is indisputably that funny boy getting weird dreams Choocha Varun Sharma who became a star of sorts with FukreyFukrey 3 is likewise rightly centred on Choocha the freak of nature doing his ldquochoochiyapardquo continuing with his usual ldquodeja churdquo Only this time having swallowed diamond he literally pisses crude oilmdashthat can fetch the blokes in this pic a lot of petro dollars No Irsquom not kidding The filmmakers areChoocha is also set to fight elections opposite Bholi his mad crush They campaign among school kids for the elections for some reason Guessing the voting age has dropped Choocharsquos own mental age has stayed deliciously underdeveloped over the decadeVarun Sharmarsquos done quite a few such roles since including Dilwale 2015 with SRK Notably in the similarly titled brocom Chhichhore 2019 that became a smash hit I asked Sharma once whatrsquos the difference between Fukrey and Chhichhore He said fukrey who enter IIT become chhichhore Smart answerA fukra if you must know in desi slang is a jobless randomdashlsquovailarsquo if you may which in my imagined etymology comes from lsquoavailablersquoThe world the fukrey occupy namely JamnapaarEast Delhimdashsame setting as the dark deranged Paatal Lok 2020mdashmakes for supple everyday launda humourAnd you canrsquot fault the stars of this show They seem up for it Just that as with so many mindless LOL movies they seem full of gags that land up until the first half maxBeyond which the film falls off the ledge so deep you start to care less and less and get on your phone eventually If yoursquore casually watching this on a latenight OTT with your feet upmdashyoursquoll simply doze off and thatrsquos great for your workday in the morning What do I do in the theatreMake fanculture notes that I wasnrsquot so much into a decade ago So I know Phool Kumari Sehgal literally virgin flower is Bholi Punjabanrsquos real name Dilip Singh is ChoocharsquosI learn about geopolitical issuesmdashfor instance there exists a water tanker mafia in Delhi as it does in Mumbai shown in the film Split Wide Open Feel enlightened with the fact that the waste from the loo on an airplane get frozen into blue ice And that booze is vegetarian although eaten with stuff nonvegetarianBetter still watch blank expressions of the two African henchmen who walk behind Phoolan Or wait for a scene as arbitrary as people talking in long echoes about bhindi at a diamond mine in South Africa No itrsquos not supposed to make sense I knowFukrey franchise is ideally the equivalent of the American lsquodoobiersquostoner humour about dudes who are dodos Irsquom not gonna complain much since I walked in for lsquotimepassrsquoTimepassmdashstandup comedian Kanan Gill best describes as a rare Indian English wordmdashthatrsquos both a verbactivity and the review of that activity Did I find the movie to be sufficiently lsquotimepassrsquo No but thenmdashnot gonna judge if you do

Fukrey 3 Movie Review: Ki fukrey painda hai!

Fukrey 3
U/A: Comedy
Dir: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba
Cast: Varun Sharma, Richa Chadha, Pankaj Tripathi, Pulkit Samrat
Rating: 1.5/5

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Fukrey 3 Movie Review: Ki fukrey painda hai!

Fukrey 3U/A: ComedyDir: Mrigdeep Singh LambaCast: Varun Sharma, Richa Chadha, Pankaj Tripathi, Pulkit SamratRating: 1.5/5

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Fukrey 3
U/A: Comedy
Dir: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba
Cast: Varun Sharma, Richa Chadha, Pankaj Tripathi, Pulkit Samrat
Rating: 1.5/5