Happy Patel Khatarnaak Jasoos marks Vir Das' directorial debut. But a movie, let alone a farce, is another beast altogether. The dialogue humour is chiefly over Happy screwing up his Hindi. Scenes range from death by qawwali to a restaurant with one table. None of it lands
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When Happy Patel, a blustering failure of a spy, discovers he is Indian, he volunteers for a dangerous, high-profile rescue mission in Goa to return to his homeland, unaware that a Don has been baying for his blood. The film transitions between being a gangster actioner, a romantic comedy, and an emotional tale of an NRI finding his roots
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Vir Das revealed that it took 9 narrations for Aamir Khan to get convinced about Happy Patel Khatarnak Jasoos, as Aamir was always concerned about the script
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