Film: Velle.Duration: 123 minutes.Director: Deven Munjal.Cast: Abhay, Karan, Mouni, Anya Singh and Savant Singh Premi.IANS Rating: ***1/2Three criminals, a runaway girl, her three best friends, an aspiring director and a star cross paths because of an incident.Will they come out of it for better or for worse?Comedy is a difficult genre.Very rarely are you able to find a comedy of errors.”Velle” is one such release.It is a comedy caper that will make you laugh every time.The film opens with Rishi Singh (Abhay Deol), an filmmaker somehow able to reach out to popular actress Rohini (Mouni Roy) for his low-budget film.
He narrates the story of three best friends — Rahul (Karan Deol), Rambo (Savant Singh Premi) and Raju (Visshesh Tiwari), aka R3 gang — who are all slackers, trouble makers and backbenchers with poor grades and chill-mode activation.The R3 gang soon befriends Riya (Anya), the firecracker daughter of their Principal (Zakir Hussain), and the four musketeers call themselves the ‘R4 Gang’.Riya wants to live life fully.She wants to learn dance and be free from her father who is a bit of a control freak and keeps worrying about Riya.
The group gets to work on a plan.The R3 will kidnap Riya and demand ransom, which surprisingly is paid off, and just when you think you’ve wrapped your head around the entire plot, there comes a real gang that kidnaps Riya for real ransom.
Everything goes haywire just when Riya has the ransom money.The R3 are broke and hurtle from one sticky situation to another.There is not just one but three different parallel narratives at play at the same time, and eventually all of them collide with one another to make an epic colossal comedy of errors.Karan Deol is a charismatic and confident leader who outshines all others.
He sticks to his strengths and makes audiences laugh or cry when necessary.He is a person to be watched, especially since he has succeeded where others have failed.The rest of the cast also delivers stellar performances, the standouts being Anya Singh, Savant Singh Premi and Visshesh Tiwari.They make the viewing experience new and refreshing.A remake of a Telugu film, ‘Velle’ is choc-a-bloc with twists and turns, and just when you think you have got the hang of the plot, a lot more unravels.It is a clean family entertainer that is hilarious and well-crafted.The makers didn’t get to explore Abhay Deol’s character.His performance is less impactful because he only gets a short time on screen.
It is still a film you can’t afford to miss.srb/
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