Bunty Aur Babli | 2 -2021- Updated

Watch it if you are a die-hard fan of Rani Mukerji or Abhishek Bachchan and want to see them revisit their iconic roles. Watch it for Sharvari Wagh’s promising debut. Watch it as a Sunday-afternoon, turn-your-brain-off entertainer.

1.5/5 – Watch only for Rani Mukerji’s performance and a faint echo of 2000s YRF nostalgia. Otherwise, let this con stay retired. bunty aur babli 2 -2021-

The film opens with retired master con artists, Rakesh (Abhishek Bachchan) and Vimmi (Rani Mukerji), now living a sedate life in the fictional town of Bankuiya, Uttar Pradesh. They have a teenage son and have traded their flashy "Fake India" antics for a small electronics shop. They are, to put it mildly, bored out of their minds. Watch it if you are a die-hard fan

To clear their names, Rakesh and Vimmi must come out of retirement and hunt down the imposters. Enter the new Bunty and Babli: Kunal (Saif Ali Khan) and Sonia (Siddhant Chaturvedi’s real-life rumored partner at the time? No—Siddhant Chaturvedi is the new male lead, but wait—correction: the film stars and debutante Rohan Mehra? Actually, let’s get this right. They have a teenage son and have traded

The narrative sets up a "Clash of Generations." It is a classic Ghar Ki Murgi Daal Barabar scenario—the veterans must come out of retirement to prove that they are not obsolete and to reclaim their stolen identities. On paper, this is a winning formula. It allows for comparisons between the analog chaos of the 2000s and the digital precision of the 2020s. Unfortunately, the execution often falters in balancing these two worlds.