Star cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca, Evelyn Sharma, Abhishek Bachchan (Cameo)
Director: Rohan Sippy
What’s Good: Its comic set pieces, acting performances and the visual treats given by its artistic environments.
What’s Bad: The film’s failed attempts at evoking the audience’s emotions, some flat scenes, cheesy dialogues.
Loo Break: During the second half, before the climax.
Watch or Not? The issue with Nautanki Saala
is that it is enjoyable in bits, and in parts wherein it isn’t fun, it
gets kind of bothering. Ayushmann and Kunaal Roy Kapur pull off superb
performances in their respective bids to try and make the film a
pleasing experience for all.
This film is a perfect example of unharnessed potential from an indeed
fascinating idea. Its script is built on around a play called
Raavanleela which is being directed and acted in by Ram Parmar aka RP
(Ayushmann Khurrana). Playing none other than Raavan in the
Broadway-like production which is a far cry from what the actual theatre
productions in Mumbai look like, he’s finding it difficult to juggle
work and his live-in girlfriend Chitra (Gaelyn Mendonca). Amidst all
this enters Mandar Lele (Kunaal Roy Kapur), a suicidal heartbroken lover
who, let’s say, hasn’t taken his separation from Nandini (Pooja Salvi)
in good spirits. RP saves Mandar’s life, and in the bargain, gets this
strange unjustified urge to unite him with Nandini again. And then the
inevitable: he himself falls for her, and thus begins the turmoil of a
Raavan trying to woo the Sita away from an oblivious Ram.
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