Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl

Just imagine…

Making a Bollywood Bhel- take The scene from YPD, where Bobby Deol & Dharmendra are conmen trying to sell a school property to unsuspecting businessman, the scene from Afoolatoon where Urmila is dancing on a platform at a railway station, Add to it the climax scene of 3idiots, the Kareena-Aamir dialogue "Whats your real name? Wangdu? I don't like Wangdu!" & Ranbir Kapoor’s Bachna ay Haseeno act! Now mix it all up in a mess trying to create some Bollywood's Bambaiya bhel- or in this case Delli’s Ricky Bahl! Its the recepie for a half-baked tasteless predictable plot!

Three women become the victims of the same “Super-Conman”. The film opens with the STAR of the movie- Dimple Chadda (Pariniti Chopra) getting dressed to meet her boyfriend-cum-gym trainer. She leaves her house on the pretext of “a wedding friend”, then off comes BF sunny the “broom broom friend”. They become “party friends”. Dimple gets drunk & Sunny becomes “home dropping friend”! After dropping the daughter home “safely” he takes the parents for a ride!

Scene two: Mumbai; Corporate world- tuff, competitive & sharp! In this ruthless environment survives ambitious & smart Raina Parulekar (Dipannita Sharma). She is looking out for Hussain’s Horses- Oh, not at mahalakshmi race course! Her boss wants M.F. Hussain’s Painting on the office wall within two days! Enter Diwen Shah, Art exhibitor-cum-manager. By the end of the act he paints her face black, blue & red! Money, career, reputation –all wiped off!

Next is Lucknow’s Siara Rashid’s (Aditi Sharma) turn. She is a simple widow who helps her in-laws run the family cloth shop. The “Super-Conman” befriends Siara as Iqbal Khan & puts forth a jaw-dropping irresistible business offer. Hattrick! Siara is clean Bowled!

Raina, the mastermind, brings three of them together & they hire an aggressive sales-girl, Ishika Desai (Anushka Sharma) to Con the “super-Conman”! Period. Don’t waste time in thinking what happens next, if you have watched a couple of Bollywood movies, you could apply for the script-writers post!

Well, if you expect great chemistry & sparks flying between Ranveer and Anushka, probably like Band Baja Baarat, then let me warn you- This move scores F grade- in the chemistry between the lead actors! Moreover the sparks fly (literally)only when the firecrackers burst! That’s it, no more chemistry; no more sparks!

There are only two things worth watching in this movie; one: Pariniti Chopra’s commendable performance as the loud-mouthed, spontaneous dilli ki kudi & Two: Shahrukh Khan’s Dialogue “Kabhi kabhi kuch jeetne ke liye kuch harna padta hai, aur haar kar jeetnewale ko bazzigar kehte hain” as “super-Conman”, Ricky Bahl’s (Ranveer Singh) ringtone!

By the end of the movie one is sure to feel “conned” by the loopholes in the script, patchy songs & underutilised potential of the actors!

Ricky Bahl is conning you of precious time & money! Its AUDIENCE V/S RICKY BAHL!

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