Comedy is an established genre in Bollywood. Since audiences are now ready for hatke<\/em> stuff, filmmakers are constantly trying to push the boundaries in the existing genres too. This Friday coincidentally sees the release of two such films, although both the movies are as different as chalk and cheese. While JUDGEMENTALL HAI KYA has violent undertones, the other film \u2013 ARJUN PATIALA \u2013 is like a spoof comedy, on the lines of famous Hollywood films like SCARY MOVIE and DEADPOOL. Bollywood has rarely made such films and one recent film in this space was WELCOME TO NEW YORK [2018]. It was a huge failure in all respects and now its lead actor Diljit Dosanjh appears in another spoof film, ARJUN PATIALA. So does ARJUN PATIALA manage to entertain and emerge as a pioneer of this genre in Bollywood? Or does it fail to entice? Let\u2019s analyse.<\/p>\n ARJUN PATIALA is the story of a cop trying to achieve a crime-free district. A struggling director (Abhishek Banerjee) meets a rich third-generation producer (Pankaj Tripathi). After ensuring that the director has put all the necessary \u2018ingredients\u2019 needed for a masala<\/em> entertainer, the producer allows the narration of the script. The director then starts to tell his story \u2013 that of a police officer named Arjun Patiala (Diljit Dosanjh). He becomes a sub-inspector through sports quota and he is posted at Ferozpur Police Station in Punjab. Within a few days, he falls for Ritu Randhawa (Kriti Sanon), an honest reporter working for Tezz News Channel. He is also visited by his senior, DSP Gill (Ronit Roy). Arjun looks up to him since childhood and he is the reason why he decided to be a cop. DSP Gill shares with him his dream of making Ferozpur a crime-free district. Ritu meanwhile helps Arjun in sharing the list of baddies in the area. There\u2019s Baldev Rana (Amit Mehra) who is so brash that he even beats up police officers if they come in his way, Sukool (Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub) who runs a brick kiln, his brother Anda (Sumit Gulati) and finally Dilbaug Singh (Himanshu Kohli) who runs his business from jail and also has haemoglobin problems. Arjun devises a plan \u2013 he generates a gang war between them, hoping that they\u2019ll all kill each other and hence DSP Gill\u2019s dream will be achieved. However, there\u2019s also MLA Prapti Makkad (Seema Pahwa) who seems to be the biggest villain of all and also has ulterior motives of her own. What happens next forms the rest of the film.<\/p>\n Ritesh Shah and Sandeep Leyzell’s story is outdated. The writers had some good ideas but fail to put it together on paper. Ritesh Shah and Sandeep Leyzell’s screenplay is shockingly horrible. It\u2019s like an apology of a script. The attempt to make a spoof comedy and taking a dig at conventional Bollywood films is something that could have paid dividends. They also had some very funny characters and any other worthy writer would have made a complete laugh riot. Alas, the writers of the film let these characters go waste. They add some dry and beaten-to-death moments and twists. In fact, it\u2019s bewildering how this script got approved in the first place. Ritesh Shah and Sandeep Leyzell’s dialogues are also dry and fail to evoke laughter.<\/p>\n Rohit Jugraj’s direction is smooth for most places but with such a poor script, there isn\u2019t much he could have done. At a few places however, he rushes through the film and this was avoidable. For instance, it\u2019s never properly established why Sukool agrees to bump off other villains in the district. A few more minutes should have been spent in establishing the tensions between the various gangs. If Rohit had done the needful, the end result would have been better but still, the film would have emerged as a disappointment as the content itself is not worth it.<\/p>\n ARJUN PATIALA begins on a great note. The manner in which the producer and director converse over the \u2018masala\u2019<\/em> script is interesting. The opening credits sequence, a spoof on James Bond style of films, is witty. But soon, one realizes there\u2019s nothing much happening in the film. Yes, there are a bunch of villains but they are not utilized properly. In fact, after a point, the film stops being funny. A few scenes are interesting here and there like Sukool assassinating Baldev Rana or the way romance blooms between Arjun and Ritu. But these are few and far between. The twist in the tale in pre-climax is something that one can see from miles away. The finale is hardly funny and reeks of lazy writing.<\/p>\n Laugh Riot: Diljit & Kriti\u2019s Most Hilarious Rapid Fire | SRK | Hrithik | Kartik | Sara | Deepika | Arjun Patiala<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Movie](\"https:\/\/www.bollywoodhungama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Movie-Review-Arjun-Patiala.jpg\" "\\"Movie")
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