Guddu Rangeela, writer-director Subhash Kapoor's follow-up to the fantastic Jolly LLB, is one frustrating film. It's full of frustrating moments, frustrating situations, a frustrating message and some frustrating performances. But the frustration isn't because all of those things are bad, it's because they could've been so much better.

Telling a tale about a serious ill of our society in a lighthearted vein isn't the easiest of tasks, but Subhash Kapoor has proved himself to be a master at social satire. He targeted the Indian law system with Jolly LLB and our obsession with NRIs in Phas Gaye Re Obama, both times to great hilarious results. What made those two films so great was that the societal flaws were at the heart, at the center of the films and their comedy, instead of being just another part of them.

 

 

wo cousins GUDDU (Amit Sadh) and RANGEELA (Arshad Warsi) run a small-town orchestra party while moonlighting as informants for local gangs. While younger impetuous Guddu can't keep his hands off women, Rangeela is still fighting a hopeless court case to avenge the killing of his wife BABLI years back at the hands of local political leader BILLO (Ronit Roy).     

 When a local "PR for the Underworld" ASHFAQ gives them a chance to make quick money to pay off the new corrupt Inspector and to continue their case by kidnapping a young girl named 'BABY' (Aditi Rao Hydari) from another city, they don't realise that they have chanced upon the perfect revenge plan because Baby is the estranged sister-in-law of the vicious Billo. And what's more, she has an axe to grind against Billo herself. They set off on a road journey which becomes a cat-and-mouse chase between the political power, police force and a budding story of forbidden young love on the run.

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