Film Review -Fugly

At the Four Front 

Film:Fugly

Cast:Jimmy Sheirgill, Mohit Marwah, Vijender Singh
Directed by:Kabir Sadanand

Duration:2hrs 14 mins
Rating: * *

The song in Fugly says “Yeh Fugly Fugly kya hain?” – incidentally, am still searching for the answer as to what on earth this film is about. With hardly any originality, it looks like a derivative of several films of recent times. 

The story is about three blokes, Dev (Mohit Marwah) Aadi (Arfi Lamba), Gaurav (boxer turned actor, Vijender Singh) and a girl (Kiara Advani). After a skirmish involving her, they find themselves rubbing a cop (Jimmy Sheirgill) the wrong way.

The writing again is lame and the proceedings are as believable as a pink Rhino doing the break dance. And in the second half, it takes a turn for the worse getting into the Rang De Basanti mode. 

There are way too many stereo types as far as the characters are concerned and even though there are a couple of funny episodes (one including an elderly lady) but they are not enough to salvage the film.

Jimmy Sheirgill as the bad cop pulls it off impressively while the rest are just about so-so.

So here’s another film that is well intended but squanders an opportunity. 

Published in The Navhind Times on 15th June 2014

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