![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, we have Guddu (Ali Fazal), the musician Happy really loves and her father (Kanwaljit Singh) really doesn’t. (Happy is in Lahore, because she did what the title told us she’d do, and lost her way.) Then there’s Bilal Ahmed (Abhay Deol, playing the Shahid Kapoor character from Jab We Met I couldn’t decide if Deol was plain rusty or putting on an impressive impassive-face), whose house Happy has ended up in, and who is fast falling for her. There’s the impressively named Daman Singh Bagga (Jimmy Shergill, who’s raised second-banana playing to a form of high art), Happy’s loutish fiancé from Amritsar who’s come to Lahore looking for her. Perhaps sensing this, director Mudassar Aziz, after a point, shoves Happy to the background, and begins to focus on the people who are looking for her. Ranaut would have given us Ecstatic or Thrilled. This film’s Tanu-equivalent is called Happy, and Penty’s performance, at best, reaches Buoyant. If that mysterious acting thing isn’t bursting out from within, you can maybe put over a drama scene or two, but comedy can cut you down to size. But an actress, she isn’t – at least, not yet. Penty is a number of things – tall, model-beautiful, and her gangly hesitation before the camera served her well in Cocktail, where we saw her last, passive-aggressiving with Deepika Padukone for Saif Ali Khan’s attentions. ![]() Happy Bhag Jayegi is an in-spirit sequel to those films, and Rai’s solution is to cast… Diana Penty. Who would you cast? Who else, among the current set of actresses, can embody this… this… force of nature? Anand L Rai, director of the Tanu Weds Manu films and one of the producers of Happy Bhag Jayegi, doesn’t seem to have spent a lot of time pondering this question. Imagine you wanted to make Tanu Weds Manu 3 and Kangana Ranaut did not have the dates. ![]()
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