Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Review: Chor Bizarre

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Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Cast/ Actors: Rajkummar Rao as Vicky,Triptii Dimri as Vidya, Mallika Sherawat as Chanda, Vijay Raaz as Police Inspector, Archana Puran Singh, Ashwini Kalsekar as lady criminal Bulbul,Tiku Talsania as Vicky’s father, Tracy Ann Chapel, Nitesh Thakur

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Director: Raaj Shaandilyaa

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Release Date: October 11, 2024

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on Netflix OTT Platform)

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Runtime: 152 Minutes

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Critic Review:

The promo promised entertainment around the missing CD of a video shot by a couple on its first night.

Written and directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa, the promo stirred a strong pre-release buzz. The sense of fun does spill into the first few scenes as glib-talking mehndiwala Vicky (Rajkummar Rao) stages a scene at the engagement of his girlfriend Vidya (Triptii Dimri). It ends the way Vicky and Vidya had planned it with her lawyer-fiancé walking off in a huff and the man who applied mehndi at functions, stepping in to marry his girl.

Raaj gets it right at the first round by casting the hero in the rare character of a mehndiwala and sets the tone for humour with the fiancé (Manjot Singh) being called a “mini Sidhu” along with a few cracks at the “honhaar lawyer”. When the fiancé stomps off, swearing that he’ll marry even the naukrani but not Vidya, the house-help called Chanda steps forward hopefully.

The premise of a couple making a CD of its first night intimacy, a thief sneaking in and stealing several items including the CD that’s still in the recorder, and Vicky-Vidya running helter-skelter to retrieve the CD before it’s viewed publicly, is fertile ground for a lot of fun.

Some of the scenes like Vicky seeing CDs everywhere he turns, are comic. There are some chuckle-worthy lines too, like a man saying “Do sau do” as the room number and the cop interpreting it as “give me 200”. Vicky’s father (Tiku Talsania) thinking the CD features him and the maid and the mix-up that ensues also had some potential for humour. But the confusion created over the maid and Vicky’s sister who’s also called Chanda (Mallika Sherawat) seems forced especially in their scenes with the police inspector (Vijay Raaz). as the policeman with a severe piles problem.

Reliable Vijay Raaz, playing a cop with a severe piles problem, brings with him fleeting moments of mirth when he says something out of line and ends it with, “Some others may talk like that but not me.” Mallika too, cracks the same dialogue much later which lands well. But there are far too many sequences like ‘Tumhe apna banana ki kasam’ being picturised on Vijay Raaz and Mallika Sherawat which prolong the film without adding any entertainment.

The fun wanes as the effort to raise a laugh begins to show. For instance, Archana Puran Singh cast as the bride’s mother is around only to be constantly chewing paan and spitting it around.

Humour that degrades female domestic staff and people who stammer being told they have a “moonh mein brake” is not only politically inappropriate but also does not make anyone roar with laughter. The strain of trying hard to be funny continues as Vicky lands in a chor bazaar to find his CD where a thief walks around with a necklace of keys, and another is mistaken for a cop. By half-time, the effort to be comic gives way to a more serious note of crime.

The introduction of several more supporting characters adds to the laboured effort at comedy as lady criminal Bulbul (Ashwini Kalsekar) comes in with two henchmen called Sunil and Shetty. Again, certain touches are funny, like Bulbul saying “Ram naam satya hai” and quickly changing her line on realising that it’s a Christian funeral. But otherwise, it’s largely humourless. Way back in Bombay To Goa (1972), Mehmood had a bus driver and the conductor named Rajesh and Khanna, leading to much laughter when they were called together. So the Sunil Shetty line of humour is last millennium.

Changing the tone from mirth to serious social messaging, Raaj Shaandaliyaa (who also does a Hitchcockian appearance with Daler Mehdi in a reprisal of the old musical nugget ‘Na na na na na re na re’) makes a strong point about the thriving business of voyeuristic viewing. Vicky helps the police bust the porn-watching racket with the line, “Haathon mein mehndi lagata hoon. Mere haathon mein mehndi nahi lagi hai”.

But the route to reach that point is strenuous and strewn with sequences that go haywire. Including a long one in a graveyard with a Stree 2 kind of ghost.

One also wonders why so many old chartbusters have been recycled while a hummable number like ‘Mere Mehboob’ is relegated to the end titles.

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie – Watch Or Not?: Though well promoted with decent performances, it is a tedious experience.

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Movie Review Score Rating: 2 out of 5 (i.e. 2/5)

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