Bobby Deol’s most ardent fans will agree that he is so much better in memes. Vikrant Massey and Sanya Malhotra compound this mistake by overacting. Are we supposed to take this movie about honour-killing seriously? If yes, then why is the ‘killer’ of runaway couples walking about with a dead angry cat glued to his face, WhatsApping their dying photos to the families?
Wait a minute. The man has just hung ‘ghar ki izzat’ and her freshly married lad off a tree in the village. Why would he need to send photos as confirmation of the kill? The whole village will know the two are dead, innit? But if the killer is Bobby Deol, king of memes, then we suppress these questions and watch.
Pretty, perky girl Jyoti Dilawar – Sanya Malhotra – has run away to get married in court with a shy lad called Ashu Shaukeen who runs his father’s butcher shop. Father has been kidnapped by some bad guy and the cops haven’t figured out why. But they’re not important, the Lord of the Memes is!
To relieve the family of sin when a daughter or son are in a ‘bhagoda’ (runaway) marriage, they bring in Dagar the killer. Woo-hoo! It’s Bobby Deol replete with a wannabe Jason Momoa beard that ends up looking like he has a dead angry cat glued to his face. He has specialised skills too: Like Liam Neeson in Taken, he has ways to find these runaway couples and then kill them. Don’t ask where he gets the rope from or how he finds a tree for hanging the duo. He probably carries a jeepful of rope and villages in India provide the rest. Would have been fun if he took selfies with the dead kids, no? Too incriminating? Perhaps. Because technically the cops believe that he’s dead. But do the filmmakers care? Who is making this film? Bobby Deol fanbois? And if he’s playing cowboy killer, should he not be given two guns? Pew, pew!