Guddu Rangeela

Movie Review
Release on: Jul 03, 2015

Movie name	:	Guddu Rangeela
Genres	:	Comedy
Produced by	:	Sangeeta Ahir
Directed by	:	Subhash Kapoor
Music by	:	Amit Trivedi, Hitesh Sonik (Background Score)
Writers	:	Subhash Kapoor
Countries	:	India

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Reviews (3)

Stars : Arshad Warsi, Amit Sadh, Ronit Roy, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shriswara, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Amit Sial, Brijendra Kala, Rajiv Gupta

Story : Based in the dusty plains of North India, Guddu Rangeela is a story about two cousins trying to make ends meet in the crime infested surroundings. Orchestra singers by day and informants by night, acquiring measly pay offs from the information provided to local gangsters about the richest families in town, has fetched them an easy and safe way to subsist without getting their hands dirty in the bargain. Although cousins by blood, both are very much unlike each other. The love hate rapport of the two comes to be seen through the many dangerously funny circumstances that they are met with and their impromptu methods of saving their skin each time. Having suffered a tragic past at the hands of the gang lord turned politician Billo; the antagonist of the tale; both are discreetly entangled in a 10 year old legal battle against him through Gupta, an honest advocate fighting on their behalf.

NDTV

It's a timeworn formula. Take a pair of unflappable goofballs with a penchant for trouble, throw them into a series of life-threatening situations, and then watch them wriggle their way in and out of danger. Despite the done-to-death feel inherent in that construct, it can yield an engaging tale when informed with the right dashes of humour, and when pressed to the service of a higher cause. On both counts, Guddu Rangeela gets it bang-on. But the element of outright fun is somewhat subdued in this cops-khaps-and-crime action-comedy written and directed by Subhash Kapoor.

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Hindustan Times

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order - Viswanathan Anand. Journalist-turned-filmmaker Subhash Kapoor, director of films such as Phas Gaye Re Obama and Jolly LLB, is back with Guddu Rangeela, a film that tries hard to present Haryana as the perfect premise for a 'desi' western. He refers to Sholay, uses the basic essence of femme fatale and mixes them with a heavy dose of fist-fighting to guarantee a high octane 'macho' film. But is it enough to make the adrenaline rush?

( 2.5 / 5 ) Read full review
Indianexpress.com

Take the Khap and the ‘paap’ it engenders. Stir in a couple of golden-hearted crooks. Season with rage and revenge. And you get ‘Guddu Rangeela’, which is actually two people: young hot-head Guddu (Amit Sadh), and Rangeela (Arshad Warsi), older and the more seasoned of the two, both partners-in-crime. The film is fashioned as a jaunty ride through Jatland, a theme currently all the rage in Bollywood. Guddu and Rangeela are forced into petty criminality by circumstance and the menacing Billu Pehelwaan (Ronit Roy), the thunderous voice of the Khap panchayat.

( 2.5 / 5 ) Read full review

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