Make My Day Entertainments’ Vellapanti (A) is the story of four childhood friends who struggle to fulfil their ambitions. Rather than succeeding, they find themselves in a soup everytime they try to do something.
Deepa Bakshi’s story is not at all interesting. Parvesh Kumar and Gaurav Sharma have written a screenplay which rests on such a hackneyed story that it simply fails to engage or involve the viewers. The entire drama is, therefore, weak. Dialogues are poor.
Bhavin Bhanushali is ordinary as Lucky. Siddharth Sagar is dull as Shampy. Ansh Bagri is so-so as Omi. Chandan Bakshi is average. Siddhika Sharma is not too impressive. Neha Rana is barely okay. Charvi Dutta does an ordinary job. Gurpreet Bhangu is so-so. Mukesh Tiwari passes muster. Rahul Dev is alright. Mohit Agarwal does a routine job. Shakti Kapoor has his moments. Rajesh Sharma passes muster as Dr. Batla. Neelu Kohli is natural as Mrs. Batla. Rajesh Bakshi, Sachin Kathuria, Pradeep Kabra, Pooja Bhardwaj, Abhishek Khanna and Girish Katyal do as desired.
Amarpreet G.S. Chhabra’s direction is poor. Music (Ashok Punjabi, Durgesh R. Rajbhatt, DJ Sheizwood and Parivesh Singh) and lyrics (Ashok Punjabi, Deepak Noor and Priyanka R. Bala) are both functional. Sunil Singh’s background music is so-so. Johny Lal’s cinematography is quite nice. Sunil Jain’s production designing is average. Mukesh Thakur’s editing is loose.
On the whole, Vellapanti is a non-starter.
Released on 30-5-’25 at Metro Inox (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Red Eye Studio. Publicity & opening: dull. …….Also released all over. Opening was poor everywhere.
