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
16 January,2026 09:22 PM IST | Mumbai | Nandini Shah
As Spike joins Jimmy Crystal's gang of Satanists and sadistic killers, and Kelson's treatment begins eliminating Samson's violent tendencies, the film questions innate humanity and pushes the audience to consider whether the infected are merely threats to be eliminated or broken souls caught between what they were and what they have become
15 January,2026 08:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Nandini Shah
No knock on Prabhas fans, who dub him the ‘Rebel Star’. Yet, to have an entire three-hour-plus movie, where everyone around the hero is as pointless as the ‘zero’ button of a ceiling fan, must mean a lotta pressure to deliver, when the point of it is basically hot air
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