Bioscope4 and Talent Bucket.In’s Agar Magar Kintu Lekin Parantu is the story of a wonder boy’s unlimited imagination. Amal (Harsh Joshi) is a school-going boy. He is suffering from a serious ailment which requires him to undergo surgery. His cricket coach, Ganesh Kulfiwala (Atul Srivastava), and Amal’s friends try to collect money required for the surgery so that he can be saved. Meanwhile, the window of Amal’s house transforms into a portal of imagination for him, allowing him to soar into the vast sky like a wonder boy, away from the confines of the world.
The story is okay but it is kiddish and meant for an episode of a television serial targeted at children. Gautam Siddhartha’s screenplay is slow-moving and doesn’t really engage the viewers because there’s nothing remarkable about it. The drama could’ve possibly worked if either the thought or the visuals were outstanding, but that’s not the case. Ritesh Ranjan Sahai’s dialogues are ordinary.
Harsh Joshi does an average job as Amal. Sulbha Arya, as Amal’s grandmother, has been wasted. Atul Srivastava is okay as Ganesh Kulfiwala. Kreshaa Shah is cute in the role of Khushi. Samay Thakkar is natural as news reporter Thakkar. Mithilesh Chaturvedi (as the constable), Vikrant Soni (as Batuni), Abha Parmar (as Chandu’s mother), Dadhey Pandey (as Samay’s father), Chetanya Adib (as Stanley’s father), Sunaina Shukla (as Stanley’s mother), Bharat Bhatia (as the school principal), Chand Dhar (as the press conference moderator), R.N. Jerajani (as Suraj Nath Thakur), Sanjay Shubhankar (as Batuni’s father), Tarun Shukla (as columnist Shukla), Jitendra Dwivedi (as magician Shrimali), Viswanathan Sridhar (as the politician), Pallavi Jadhav (as reporter Nidhi), Arun Shekhar (as Ganesh’s friend, Shekhar), Sairaj Naik (as Ali) and Shahriyar Atal (as puppeteer Shahriyar) lend dull support. Others pass muster.
Gautam Siddhartha’s direction is below average. Music (Prasun Ghosh, Raju Sardar, Shakeel Ahmed, Rahul Srivastava and Sanjay K. Pathak) is functional. Ritesh Ranjan Sahai’s lyrics are okay. Abhishek Kate and Amita Ghughari’s background music is ordinary. Rajesh Madan’s camerawork is alright. Amar Ratan’s art direction hardly deserves separate mention. Aditya Mira Prasad’s editing ought to have been sharper.
On the whole, Agar Magar Kintu Lekin Parantu is a non-starter which will go unnoticed.
Released on 30-5-’25 at Inox Malad (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Augmentus Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released all over. Opening was dull everywhere.