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Wild Wild Punjab

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Shilajit Mitra

About Wild Wild Punjab
Title: Wild Wild Punjab
Original Title: वाइल्ड वाइल्ड पंजाब
Plot: Four friends road-trip across Punjab to help one of them get over an ex-girlfriend, but are quickly caught in a fiasco like no other.
Cast: Varun Sharma, Sunny Singh, Jassie Gill, Manjot Singh, Ishita Raj Sharma, Patralekhaa
Director: Simarpreet Singh
Cinematography: Nigam Bomzan
Editor: Chetan M. Solanki
Wild Wild Punjab
Shilajit Mitra
The Hindu
Puerile buddy comedy is not wild enough

The Netflix film starring Varun Sharma, Sunny Singh and others is a blur of ham-fisted hi-jinks and inane humour

It was evident, even before Varun Sharma clambered onto the roof of a car, unfastened his fly and shot out a tall projectile of piss, that Wild Wild Punjab was not a serious film. But is it even that wild? The aforementioned scene is probably the looniest thing that happens — a nod, perhaps, to Fukrey 3, which had an entire pee-based plotline dedicated to Sharma. The rest of Simarpreet Singh’s film is oddly strained and docile, a blur of ham-fisted hi-jinks and inane one-liners. “Respect, dude,” someone tells Sharma’s character, a compliment I cannot extend to the film.

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