He has created a genuinely comic villain called Adnan Chow (Denzil Smith), a Chinese-Pakistani who is fond of reciting Urdu poetry and making kebabs and biryani. It gives you the feel of a stoner film without anybody actually indulging in weed.įull marks to Mudassar Aziz for excelling on both the writing and direction fronts. The situations are uproariously funny and can even said to be borderline trippy but in a good way.
Like something out of a Marx Brothers film, it offers a classic mix of slapstick combined with some hugely witty dialogue. You can watch the film from anywhere and yet will not stop laughing. There have been cult comedies down the years like Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro or Andaz Apna Apna to name a few and Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi looks all set to join the club. The group has one set of crazy adventures after another across Shanghai and nearby towns, falling in and out of improbable situations and meeting outlandish characters on the way. Bagga and Usman land there as well to lend a helping hand. Sonakshi seeks help from Khushwant Singh (Jassi Gill), an Indian embassy employee who knows Chinese. Ali Fazal and Diana Penty too are in China for a music show, though the focus of the film isn't on them. In the present film, Sonakshi Sinha (also named Happy) comes to China to find her runaway groom (Aparshakti Khurana) and gets kidnapped by Chinese thugs, who mistake her for Diana Penty because of their similar names.
The film revolved around the fact that Diana Penty ran off on her wedding night and somehow landed in Pakistan, leading to a merry chase across the border. The original starred Diana Penty as Happy, Ali Fazal as her boyfriend Guddu, Abhay Deol as the Pakistani politician Bilal, Jimmy Sheirgill as the Punjabi politician Bagga, who was Happy's would-be-husband, and Piyush Mishra as Usman. Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi is the sequel to Happy Bhag Jayegi (2016).