Guddu Rangeela Review

One Line Review: The story of a duo trying to make it big, takes a whole different turn.

Positive Points: Good cinematography, plot takes a surprising turn.

Negative Points: Unrealistic action sequences, unconvincing turn or events in the plot, poor dialogues and bland music.

Plot: Guddu (Amit Sadh) and Rangeela (Arshad Warsi) run their own local musical band service in the small town Mirpur, which is only to cover up their real profession of working as informers to the local dacoits who pay them only a thin slice of their loot as a commission.

One fine day the local police inspector is transferred and the new one is a well seasoned corrupt cop. He offers them a choice, of either paying him Rs 10 lakh or get arrested.

Gora Bengali (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) is an underworld informer who accidently crosses path with them and assigns them a job whereby they can win Rs 10 Lakh after they finish an assignment, involving kidnapping Baby (Aditi Rao Hydari) from her home in Chandigarh.

On a parallel side Billu Pehelwan (Ronit Roy) is a Khap Panchayat leader in Mirpur, known for his traditional dogmatism and brutality, who kills couples who elope and get married.

However, things are not as easy as they seems for Guddu and Rangeela. Their task is actually something else from what they have been told and it makes them come face to face with their past and their old enemy.

Direction And Technical Aspects: The cinematography of the movie is a bit impressive when it comes to showing action sequences, however, it doesn't entirely make up for the unconvincingly portrayed turn of events in the film.

Although the direction is pretty average and balances the plot, it doesn't do the job of convincingly tell the story in a sensible and engaging manner.

As mentioned before, the action is very typically 'Bollywood' and doesn't make any value additions.

Performances: Amit Sadh performs his role of a small town Haryanvi young man a bit above average, but falls short of impressing the audiences.

Arshad Warsi is good enough as the 'big brother' or 'mentor' for Amit's character, but doesn't add much into it.

Aditi Rao Hydari is well and good at her place since her role is not much pivotal to the whole plot.

Ronit Roy deserves claps for his portrayal of a power hungry, tradition blinded and brutal rural leader who will go to any lengths to secure his place and get what he wants.

Music: One may feel that the music in this film is just for the sake of it. It seems that the music director hasn't taken much pain to produce quality music other than the creative "Mata Ka E-mail". The only other song that you may love to have on your phone is the "Sooiyan".

Final Verdict: Though the movie tries to offer the audiences something new and different in the form of a plot twist, it barely manages to make a mark because of mediocre action, performances and as said before, unconvincing turn of events. Watch this film if you have some free time with you.