Guddu Rangeela: a social message with a twist of comedy

The movie revolves around Rangeela (Arshad Warsi) and his cousin brother Guddu (Amit Sadh) who are trying to make a decent living amidst their crime infested surroundings.

During the day they run an orchestra and at night they turn informants to local goons about the richest families in the vicinity. This fetches them easy money.

Although they are cousins their characters are quite different which is evident by the way they get out of precariously funny situations.

The cousins are also trying to avenge a tragic past at the hands of a local don Billo (Ronit Roy); the antagonist of the movie; from the past 10 years. Guddu's methodology is very upfront and brash while Rangeela has a matured and self-centered way of working and doesn't want to be on the wrong side of the law.

While, Guddu is a womanizer and Rangeela has not moved on from the tragic incident involving his wife Babli (Shriswara) 10 years back.

Things take a turn when a common enemy asks Guddu and Rangeela to kidnap Billo's sister-in-law Baby (Aditi), which also gives them a perfect platform to seek redemption. The situation takes even more favourable turn when they find out that Baby is also out to seek redemption from Billo, who killed her sister. In all this there is a love story going on.

Talking about the performances, Arshad is very convincing in his character, Amit is decent with his antics while Aditi had a small yet powerful role and she pulled it out fairly well. Ronit definitely steals the show, as he is superb as a politician don and the antagonist. Rest of the characters have too small role to talk about.

The film is loosely based on Manoj-Babli honour killing case. It also touches upon the traditions followed by the Khap Panchayat, a religious cast based committee among the Jatts in the state of Haryana.

The direction is alright and the dialogues are quite witty with some even having 'double meaning,' but the music fails to impress except for the first song in the movie. All in all, it's a onetime watch. (ANI)

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