‘Wild Wild Punjab’ review: We’re so over this kind of breakup movie
Simarpreet Singh’s Netflix comedy stars Varun Sharma, Manjot Singh, Sunny Singh and Jassie Gill.
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Vaishali has broken up with her boyfriend Rajesh Khanna to marry her boss. Rajesh decides to crash Vaishali’s wedding so that he can tell her to her face: “I’m over you.”
Vaishali is a “bitch”, in Rajesh’s telling. Some men who cannot accept that the women in their lives have moved on have done far worse. Since Wild Wild Punjab is a whack-a-mole-comedy, the suffering is split equally between Rajesh and his friends, spilling over to viewers too.
Simarpreet Singh’s Netflix movie is the latest break-up treatise from Luv Ranjan. Wild Wild Punjab is based on a story idea by Ranjan and a screenplay by Sandeep Jain and Harman Wadala.
Apart from wondering why Ranjan is unable to move on from this topic – like the moping men in his own films – Wild Wild Punjab inspires puzzlement about the tameness shown by Rajesh (Varun Sharma) and his buddies Mayank (Sunny Singh), Gaurav (Jassie Gill) and Honey (Manjot Singh).
Despite valiant efforts, the quartet cannot generate the mayhem that results from furious imbibing and on-the-fly thinking. Their journey includes an accidental wedding, an unwise run-in with a police officer, and a dangerous encounter with a pair of drug dealers.
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