Fukrey 3 Star Cast/ Actors: Pulkit Samrat as Vikas “Hunny” Gulati, Varun Sharma as Dilip “Choochaa” Singh, Manjot Singh as Lali Halwai, Richa Chadha as Bholi Punjaban, and Pankaj Tripathi as Pandit ji
Fukrey 3 Director: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba
Fukrey 3 Release Date: 28 September, 2023
Fukrey 3 Available On: Theatrical release (and likely to be released on Amazon Prime Video)
Fukrey 3 Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi
Fukrey 3 Runtime: 147 minutes
Fukrey 3 Critic Review:
Slackers Choocha (Varun Sharma), Hunny (Pulkit Samrat), Laali (Manjot Singh) and Panditji (Pankaj Tripathi) are back to the lowest rung of the ladder. Taking up cases like finding a kid’s missing kachcha (underwear). Gangster Bholi Punjaban (Richa Chadha), mortified to admit publicly that her real name is Phool Kumari Sehgal, enters the political fray with a generous offer of freebies and two hefty black men by her side. Funding her is Dhingra, the man who controls the water tankers of the capital city.
After two instalments of the franchise (2013, 2017) that brought a healthy return on investment, Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and writer Vipul Vig move to toilet humour the third time around. Bholi orchestrates a photo op by cleaning an Indian style loo, the fickle media attention swerving to Choocha cleaning a little kid’s bottom.
Small gags worked into a larger plot, like Choocha drinking from a waterspout at the airport and Pandit wanting a large peg of whisky with ice cubes from the air hostess, also linger around the toilet. With Choocha’s smelly fingers that have been probing his butt, body waste from the washroom (Number 2, as Choocha puts it) turning into ice on an aircraft, Pandit reviving Hunny, Choocha with water from the flush, and Choocha swallowing a diamond which can only exit one way, Lamba is clearly high on wit from the toilet.
The plot: Hunny has pitched Choocha who can be remote-controlled by him into the electoral fray opposite Bholi. She plays her cards shrewdly and dispatches the foursome to Cape Town in search of diamonds that don’t exist. With the franchise’s popular ‘Ambar sariya…’ playing in the background, a girl called Mombasa falls in love with Choocha right there outside the S African airport.
It’s chaos back in India when Mombasa finds Bholi and Choocha together, Choocha as gullible as ever and his visions as spot on as always. Hunny’s spontaneous remark on ‘L….’ (a body part unmentionable in a family film) which Pandit quickly covers up as l…left hand, nirodh for nirdalya (independent) candidate and Pandit muttering a punchline here and there, keep the fun and frolic alive in the frivolous franchise. Among the many gags are an aunty calling the foursome for khaana, and Choocha asking if there’s bhendi, bharela at that, their voices carried back and forth over quite a distance. A line about daru being non-veg and Lali’s tea-making in the midst of a crucial conversation, also bring on the smiles.
The plot of Hunny’s sweat and Choocha’s urine (toilet, again) combining to make usable petrol may seem far-fetched and a climax with a crocodile in a water park may be prolonged before the team saves Delhi from Dingra’s devious Day Zero when there will be no more water. But the energy and comic timing the cast brings with it stays true to the franchise.
However, with the emphasis on Varun Sharma who is in great form but is in practically every frame, Pulkit and Manjot, even Richa, are relegated to the sidelines. It’s also a wistful observation that Pankaj Tripathi who was such a neat fit in the earlier instalments, seems to have outgrown Fukrey. After wholesome work in Mirzapur, Criminal Justice and OMG 2, somehow the insignificant role of Panditji doesn’t justify Pankaj Tripathi’s presence anymore.
Fukrey 3 – Watch Or Not?: Watch it if you’re a fan of comedy a la Fukrey.
Fukrey 3 Review Score Rating: 2.5 out of 5 (i.e. 2.5/5)
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