A bit over the top, but funny nonetheless
THIS sequel to last year’s hit comedy has not just one Punjabi woman called Happy ending up in China, but two, resulting in a situational comedy that brings lots of laughs, including some spoofs of Bollywood songs and actors in the dialogues by writer-director Mudassar Aziz.
The first Happy is Diana Penty, and her musician boyfriend Guddu (Ali Fazal), who has run away from her arranged wedding in India and joined him in China for a concert performance.
The second Happy is Sonakshi Sinha, who gets a bigger role than Diana. Sonakshi plays a horticulturist coming to a Chinese university to work there.
Then there is a gang of Hindi-speaking Chinese gangsters, who want to kidnap the first Happy, but end up with the wrong one in the comedy of errors in which everyone remains confused until the wrongly kidnapped Happy escapes and meets Indian embassy worker Khushwant Gill (Jassi Gill).
Meanwhile, Daman Bagga (Jimmy Sheirgill), the groom that Happy abandoned in India, and his Pakistani policeman friend Usman Afridi (Piyush Mishra), are stowed away in a container they believed was going to Pakistan to find Happy, but the container ends up in China.
When the entire team meet up, the plot devolves into some silliness that detracts from what was until then an excellent comedy, but the comedic twists and turns in the tale does leave one entertained.
Sonakshi once again features in a song that is quite unnecessary to the plot, in a rather unflattering outfit but does well for the rest of the movie.