Hungama 2 assessment: Shilpa Shetty, Paresh Rawal movie is stale wine in an outdated bottle

Hungama 2 film solid: Paresh Rawal, Ashutosh Rana, Meezan Jaffery, Pranitha, Shilpa Shetty, Rajpal Yadav, Tiku Talsania, Manoj JoshiHungama 2 film director: PriyadarshanHungama 2 film score: 1.5 stars
‘Hungama 2’ is being touted as Priyadarshan’s ‘return’ to Hindi motion pictures after 8 years. As properly as Shilpa Shetty’s ‘comeback’ after 14 years. On neither rely, for very completely different causes, is it excellent news. The movie is stale wine in an outdated bottle, and harsh highlight is being educated on the actress for causes that don’t have anything to do with the movie.
Those aware of Priyadarshan’s broad comedies know that there isn’t a restrict to the loudness and obviousness with which the vaguely acquainted plots are filmed. Everything screams a set, whether or not it’s a village-based flick, or one thing set in a city. Decibels are set at a high-higher-highest pitch. In his finest movies, like, say, ‘Virasat’, the colors are jewel-like; in these others, the cheerful abandon of main hues can harm.
‘Hungama 2’, a remake of the Malayalam unique ‘Minnaram’, provides us characters who maintain popping up in Priyan’s universe. A patriarch (Ashutosh Rana) is stored busy barking at his son (Meezan) who’s about to tie the knot, who in flip has to resolve a knotty drawback within the form of a younger lady (Pranitha) and a child. A wannabe cuckold (Paresh Rawal) retains a really suspicious eye on his a lot youthful, enticing spouse (Shilpa Shetty). A would-be father-in-law (Manoj Joshi) exhibits up, and a few random worthies swan out and in of the storyline at will, with out both them or us batting an eyelid, as a result of this can be a Priyan comedy, and nobody’s losing any time in search of sense.

If the motion had been confined to the colourless characters performed by Meezan and Pranitha, the movie would have been a non-starter; each compete for blankness, and the previous wins fingers down.
Only a few folks maintain you from fleeing. Ashutosh Rana does a marvellous job of a martinet who’s, by flip, censorious and foolish, bushy walrus moustache to the fore. And Shilpa Shetty seems to be as astonishingly svelte as she used to: her jhatkas in “Chura Ke Dil Mera” redux are jaw-dropping, though you by no means actually purchase her odd couple ‘jodi’ with Paresh Rawal. The latter, a Priyan staple, is as snug right here as he has been in all his appearances, though the movies themselves are firmly set upon a curve of diminishing returns.