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Venus Worldwide Entertainment’s Hungama 2 (UA) is the remake of Malayalam Minnaram. The Bajajs, Tiwaris and Kapoors live happily till a girl comes from almost nowhere and disturbs their peace, even shatters their lives. Who is this girl and what does she want?
Radhe Tiwari (Paresh Rawal) is a lawyer. His wife, Anjali (Shilpa Shetty Kundra), is a working woman. In the same organisation as Anjali works Aakash Kapoor (Meezaan Jafri). Aakash, who is extremely close to Anjali, is the son of Mr. Kapoor (Ashutosh Rana). In fact, Anjali is close to the entire Kapoor family. Aakash has a sister and a brother, Aman Kapoor (Raman Trikha). Aakash is to be married to the daughter of a rich businessman, M.G. Bajaj (Manoj Joshi). Even as preparations for the engagement and marriage are afoot, Vaani (Pranitha Subhash) comes to the bungalow of the Kapoors with a baby girl. She claims to be the wife of Aakash. She also says that the father of the baby is none other than Aakash. At first, Aakash refuses to even recognise her but then admits that she is his college mate. A lot of confusions follow — some funny, others not so funny. Were Aakash and Vaani in love? Were they married? Is the baby girl Aakash and Vaani’s child? What does Vaani want? Do Aakash and Bajaj’s daughter get married?
Priyadarshan has written a story which is extremely funny in parts but not so in other parts. Yunus Sajawal’s screenplay, about three families and a girl, moves at a fast pace at times but it slows down at other times. The drama gets a bit boring when the screenplay becomes slow. Since the film is a comedy, the audiences are not expected to apply their brains. To Sajawal’s credit, he does not give the viewers many opportunities to think or let questions crop up in their minds. The film does take around 10-15 minutes to come into its own but once it does, the first half moves pretty fast and engages the audience. The pace drops at three or four places in the second half which also looks a bit contrived. The scenes between Radhe Tiwari (Paresh Rawal) and Aakash Kapoor (Meezaan Jafri), especially, look forced and quite long-drawn, sometimes even predictable. The climax is not as exciting and fast-paced as the build-up or as climaxes of earlier films made by Priyadarshan. Dialogues, penned by Manisha Korde and Anukalp Goswami, are very funny and evoke laughter at a number of places. It would be correct to say that the screenplay and the dialogues complement each other at a lot of places.
Shilpa Shetty looks perfectly in shape and acts very well as Anjali Tiwari. Her dances are awesome. Paresh Rawal performs with effortless ease as Radhe Tiwari. His comedy often makes people laugh. Meezaan Jafri does a fine job as Aakash Kapoor. He is very free in front of the camera and his dances are graceful. Pranitha Subhash makes a promising Bollywood debut. As Vaani, she is natural and expressive. Ashutosh Rana is outstanding in the role of Kapoor. His performance in serious and comic scenes is absolutely praiseworthy. Manoj Joshi makes his presence felt as M.G. Bajaj. Tiku Talsania leaves a fine mark as house help Nandan. Rajpal Yadav lends able support with his loud yet entertaining acting. Johny Lever has his moments in a brief role as tutor Gagan Chandra D’Costa. Raman Trikha (as Aman Kapoor) is alright. Akshaye Khanna stands out in a cameo appearance. Naira Shah, Preity Pundir and others provide fair support.
Priyadarshan’s direction is quite good but he seems to have lost his touch in the climax. Generally, his climax scenes are a laugh riot, and the public has come to expect the same in every film of his. Also, brevity is the soul of wit, but this comedy is just too lengthy. Music (Anu Malik) is quite disappointing. The remixed version of ‘Chura ke dil mera’ song is the best number in the film. The ‘Hungama’ track in the end is fair. But the other songs don’t have the zing to become popular. Sameer’s lyrics are alright. Song picturisations of ‘Chura ke dil mera’ and ‘Hungama’ are nice. The choreography in the film is by Brinda, Pony Verma and Ganesh Acharya. Ronnie Raphael’s background music is good but not extraordinary. Ekhambram N.K.’s cinematography is decent. Stunt and action scenes (by Ravi Thyagarajan and Rampyare Yadav) are okay. V. Selvakumar’s production designing is of a nice standard. M.S. Aiyyappan Nair’s editing is quite sharp.
On the whole, Hungama 2 is good in parts. It will make the viewers laugh at places but an ordinary climax, absence of hit music, its undue length, and lack of promotion and, therefore, poor awareness about the film’s release, will tell on the film’s business.
Released on 23-7-’21 on Disney+ Hotstar.