It has been some time since Hindi cinema had a zany, well-written comedy, applauds Deepa Gahlot.

 

There are stars who refuse to age, and proceed to behave reverse main girls half their age. After which, there’s Ajay Devgn, who sportingly does a comedy about an older man, who has to satisfy the mother and father of his a lot youthful girlfriend. They’re the identical age as he’s, and issues ensue.

Within the first movie De De Pyaar De (2019), Londoner Ashish (Devgn) took Ayesha (Rakul Preet Singh) to India to satisfy his ex-wife (Tabu) and grown up children, and taking flight on the final minute, launched her as his secretary.

That tangle ultimately obtained sorted, primarily due to the grace of the spouse.

Within the sequel, directed by Anshul Sharma from a script by Luv Ranjan and Tarun Jain, Ayesha doesn’t have the nerve to inform her Chandigarh-based mother and father about her a lot older boyfriend, so she hides behind the dizzy pleasure brought on by her sister-in-law Kittu’s (Ishta Dutta) being pregnant, to interrupt it to them gently — each time the dialog goes there, Kittu pretends to enter labour.

However the secret is out earlier than she is ready and the mother and father — Rakesh (R Madhavan) and Anju (Gautami Kapoor) — insist on assembly Ashish. Their line about being educated, progressive and trendy turns into a operating gag.

Ayesha tries to hide Ashish’s age from her mother and father, and once they discover out, they’re appalled.

Ashish shouldn’t be too snug both; for one, he doesn’t know easy methods to deal with them!

How does one name folks the identical age Mummy-Papa or Aunty-Uncle?

His psychiatrist buddy, Ronak (a droll Jaaved Jaaferi), advises him to strive some filmi methods to impress the mother and father, and his try and cook dinner for them ends in exchanging information about their anti-cholesterol medicine!

The interactions between an more and more distraught father and embarrassed Ashish make for a lot hilarity.

Then Rakesh decides he can’t be a passive observer to his daughter’s foolishness, and summons her childhood pal, Aditya (Meezaan Jafri) to woo her away from Ashish.

Aditya is younger, an agile dancer, an excellent singer, flaunting six-pack abs and turning Ayesha’s cousins into adoring groupies. (‘I want I had a son like that,’ says Ronak, which will get fun, as a result of Jaaved is Meezaan’s father).

Ayesha does youthful stuff like climbing and clubbing, whereas ‘Uncle’ Ashish is left smarting within the sidelines, placing up with Rakesh’s smug look and Ronak’s snide jabs.

The script comes up with in-jokes about Ajay Devgn’s earlier movies. When Aditya arrives straddling two autos, Ashish feedback, ‘I did that 30 years in the past,’ to which Ronak says, ‘She wasn’t born 30 years in the past, she did not see it.’

The sharp banter between the characters is what offers the movie its humour, and whereas it stays that means, there is a chuckle a minute.

For some time, it strays into weepy heartbreak territory and loses its means, until it gathers it wits collectively once more and ends on a comic book notice.

Madhavan is definitely a yr youthful than Ajay Devgn, and like the daddy in Cheeni Kum (the 2007 movie by which Amitabh Bachchan falls in love with the 30 years youthful Tabu), he’s understandably fearful about his daughter’s future.

So his humorous makes an attempt to deflect her consideration really win him some sympathy.

Devgn appears a bit morose all through, since he’s the butt of everybody’s ageist jokes, however doesn’t attempt to steal the thunder from different actors, and a really spirited Rakul Preet Singh.

The movie is a enjoyable watch, and it has been some time since Hindi cinema had a zany, well-written comedy.

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