Review of Pati Patni Aur Woh . . .

Review of Pati Patni Aur Woh . . .

Story set in small town with some romance, family drama and comedy with low budget is the new formula to make a profitable film. Be it Badhai Ho, Luka Chuppi or Bala or any recently released in past few years all achieved success and people also liked it.

Happy Bhag Jayegi fame director Mudassar Aziz is back with another romantic comedy which is remake of classic film Pati Patni Aur Woh. He made it in modern way. Nowadays most of comedy films are incomplete without adding sex into the dialogues and which doesn't make it a proper family pack film. I believe nowadays families have become more open so the films too but i belong to that Rajshri production's family drama which is pure family pack without a single use of bad words or any sexual scene. I can't label this film a pure family pack but yes it can be enjoyed with your friends, wife & WOH (if you have).

Jokes apart it's one more soft entertaining stuff coming from Kartik Aryan who is doing these type of films from starting. He never did any other genre's film but he is good in this.

It's small town setup telling the story of Chintu Tyagi (Kartik Aryan) who is living in Kanpur with his wife who was Vedika Tripathi (Bhumi Pednekar) before marriage and post marriage they call each other Tyagi ji & Tripathi ji. Chintu Tyagi is working in PWD and regarding one project he meets Tapasya Singh (Ananya Panday) and meeting after meeting Tyagi ji is trying to get closer to her. Actually he doesn't love her not even he is seeking for sex but whatever Tapsya said good words about laughter, mustache, Kanpur etc he is happy to hear all these which he did not hear from his wife in 3 years of married life. Fortunately or unfortunately his best friend Faheem Rizvi (Aparshakti Khurrana) also working in the same office with him who lends support to him for hiding things in front of his wife & some twists and turns and lies the story goes on in funny way.

This kind of stories i have watched many times in past. Most of Govinda's films used to have similar situations as his character used to have two ladies. Akshay Kumar's Garam Masala also one of the best film in this sub category of affair comedy. Kapil Sharma also did similar film when he debuted on big screen. Whatever i watched in 90s or later they were pure comedy where no vulgarity was seen. nowadays audiences are modern so film makers are more interested in showing what really audiences want to see. Well that's not the issue if film is adultery i just wrote my thoughts on pure family pack film & modern family film.

As the story goes on there are many funny scenes sprinkled with humorous dialogues or wordings which sometimes work but sometimes doesn't work at all. Writing work is fine they tried to add as much humor as they could specially in dialogues of Tyagi's bestie Rizvi he is again after Luka Chuppi in the supporting role of being Hero's friend. In many scenes he is fabulous but seems repetitive. Like his brother he is ultimately talented. His comic timing is extremely good.

Direction well handled job by Mudassar Aziz liked several scenes such as Bhumi's breakdown scene when she comes to know about the extra marital  affair hee husband, Aparshakti's advice scene to Kartik, When Mausa Ji comes home and Kartik's sarcastic jokes brilliant writing, One flirty student who is fan of charm of Bhumi and he tells her that she looking like Kareena Kapoor, That guy Rakesh Yadav's all scenes are superbly executed and creates laughter moments.

Cinematography of Kanpur is quite nice, Music is okayish kinda one remake song Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare comes in end credits. Overall casting is fine. Cameo of Sunny Singh, Kriti Sanon shines.

Performances by Aparshakti Khurrana already said he's superb and steals the show. Rajesh Sharma had very little to do, That student is superb, now coming to the lead Kartik Aryan is good he looks Kanpuriya with mustache look and shines in many scenes but somewhere i found accent of UP missing not all the time but somewhere. He is good performer and did this type of roles earlier so nothing was challenging for him.

Ananya Panday is very fine in her innocent role, she reminds me of Katrina Kaif in starting phase where he had only simple dialogues to speak and nothing more efforts required for the given role WOH and she does it with an ease.

Who is the show stealer is Bhumi Pednekar as PATNI Vedika Tripathi Tyagi. She has done commendable job. From her entry to end credit of acting goes to her. She shine out among three leads. She looks damn sexy in Saree. Hatz off to costume designer for keeping hotness alive inspite of being a PATNI she beats the WOH here. Very stunning look and dialogues are way better than others. When she entered in Bollywood with Dum Laga Ke Haisha i never thought she's gonna rule like this. Lots of love and respect for her performance.

At the end i would conclude that it's a quite romantic comedy drama can be enjoyed with friends and couple will go for it for sure.

My Ratings

3.5/5.

--- by Harsh Desai Filmy . . .