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Vicky Donor is out of the box concept. It is done with out of the box execution with some out of the box scenes. Anu Kapoor showcases his ultra talent after a long break after his cult character of news paper owner in Mr. Ayushmann Khurana is charming and gives his best in his first outing.
Yammi is average. Dolly aunty and her mother in law are shining charterers played wonderfully. Movies makes you laugh and makes you emotional with equal ease. Director Shoojit Sircar is one director to watch out for in coming times. Salute to the thought of the movie. Writer juhi chaturvedi did an outstanding work. But to bring this script to the celluloid was not an easy job as the topic and plot of the movie was very sensitive. Anything out of the edge can be questioned and scrutinized Brutally by our so called civilized indian society.
But here is difference between a mediocre and a master director Shoojit sircir my most favourite indian director from the current generation. Only Shoojit sircir sir can pull this off so beautifully. Ayushmann is a natural actor and he did exceptionally well in his very first movie. Annu kapoor is fabulous as expected. But my favourite performance from the movie was dolly Ahluwalia as ayushmann's mother. Though each and every performance of this movie was very very good.
It's an educating one. Must watch for anyone. It turned out to be pleasant surprize form Vicky Donor. While I waited for one week for the reviews before confirming if the movie is watchable, the movie stood tall in all aspects. Anu Kapoor is back with a bang with some impressive performances by Ayushman and Yami. The movie provided the right perspective to look at sperm donation and its importance. Though the conservatives with frown at such issues, even from the entertainment point of view, the movie provides everything that audience expects from a movie.
The punches are spot on in terms of timing as well as dialogs. While a majority of the dialogs are in Punjabi which might repel certain set of audiences , it just improves the originality of the plot. Music has been another highlight of the movie with the song "Paani Da Rang" being the masterpiece. Overall, a good times watch. It reiterates the fact that conveying a message need not be preachy always.
That the viewer genuinely feels blissful at the end of the movie is a testimony to the duo's brilliance. In the end when she gets to witness the whole bunch of kids , the tears of joy that flows through one's eye is inevitable.
There numerous such hilarious moments in the movie. One more which warrants mention is the sequence in which Vicky goes for his first donation. It is hard think of anyone else other than Ayushmann Khurrana as Vicky.
He is brilliant. The effortless manner in which he espouses varied emotions is awesome. Yami Gautham is yet another stupendous actress that the movie has introduced to Bollywood. She seems to an actress with substance. Annu Kapoor as Dr Chaddha is brilliant. He has used all his experience to optimum use here. All others in supporting cast have done well.
Technically also the movie is good. On the whole, "Vicky donor " is a brilliant wonder how many times this word gets repeated in this review..! Bottomline : Brilliant one more time..!!! Anything Delhi works these days.
New Movie Destination Delhi and there exactly is where Vicky lives Sircar does it again, but succeeds this time. Anshumann Khurrana with one extra r and an extra n was good, its nice to see such talent evolve Yamini Gautam a fresh face for the Art house, we expect her to feature in some item number in some crappy Yash Raj Movie sometime Now the plot: Good, Sircar is a man of literature he does well handling it, story was good enough to save your ticket money.
I liked the movie, but didn't have the X factor to go the distance, to be a big movie, you need a huge star to earn that status! This afternoon I watched "Vicky Donor" and was unexpectedly enchanted by it. The title and the recent spate of unfunny sex "comedies" had made me apprehensive, but this sweet film disarmed me completely. Of course, it is about a sperm donor, but it so cleverly involves the viewer in the lives of said donor and the people in his world, that one gets emotionally invested in their destinies instead of staying a Peeping Tom voyeur.
Rather than titillating and going for cheap laughs, the tale of the donor and his circumstances is unspooled deftly to the point that he emerges as a kind of selfless do-gooder. The laughs that arise are from situational humor rather than the tacky nudge-nudge-wink-wink variety. Although not totally new, the dialogue is laugh-out loud funny. In fact, a new film genre was spawned in the past few years: the middle class Delhi family comedy.
The cast is first rate, and again a director shrewdly deploys the best of Delhi's theatre talents in the service of an off-beat film. Most of these actors would be unknown to Hindi filmgoers who would think them to be overnight sensations; the fact is most of them paid their dues and honed their craft on the stages of Delhi and Calcutta for decades. Kamlesh Gill, as the titular donor's grandmother is a scene stealer with her progressive views, uncharacteristic knowledge of electronic gadgets and nightly peg or two.
At one point, her movie grandson remarks admiringly that Delhi has only two truly modern things: the newly-built Metro and his grandmother. Gill has been active in theatre since ! In the film, her drinking partner is her widowed daughter-in-law, Vicky's mother, played with feisty brio by another theatre professional and National Award-winning costume designer Dolly Ahluwalia Tewari.
Spectacularly beautiful and talented TV actress Yami Gautam is Vicky's love interest Ashima Roy, while her widower father and spinster aunt are played appealingly, once again, by longtime theatre veterans: Jayant Das and Swaroopa Ghosh.
With this wealth of combined acting expertise, it's no surprise that they succeed brilliantly in creating the compellingly real world of Vicky, Ashima, their families, and the man who upends their happy, orderly lives: the infertility expert Dr. Baldev Chaddha, played to perfection by Annu Kapoor. Chaddha has long been on a quest for the ideal sperm donor, and when he comes across carefree cricket-mad Vicky, he sizes him up and then pretty much stalks him until the young man becomes his star performer.
Only Dr. Chaddha spots his potential, such as it is, and launches Vicky's fruitful if, um, single-handed success. These two and their humorous bickering mutual need-and-greed relationship are at the centre of the film. Chaddha is a cunning combination of fast-talking hustler, shameless hence, very funny mercenary, and ultimately, unlikely altruist, and the gifted Annu Kapoor makes him amusingly disreputable, but never sleazy.
Chaddha genuinely sees Vicky as a walking-talking, revenue generating sperm bank, and after each encounter with the young man muses to himself "Confused sperm! It is excellent that Annu Kapoor has returned to Hindi cinema after a long self-imposed exile. He was a hoot in last year's "7 Khoon Maaf", and pulls off a funny yet heart-warming turn in this film. When Vicky and Ashima decide to make a life together, it brings into hilarious play a Punjabi-Bengali culture clash.
In the initial meetings, each side has catty put downs of the other, yet when all is said and done, they are so large-hearted and accepting that they promptly settle into an amiable harmony, complete with affectionate leg-pulling. The wedding with mix-and-match Punjabi and Bengali rituals and customs is an inspired piece of business: the Punjabis are spooked by a posse of loudly ululating Bengali matrons, but only for an instant.
They give the well-behaved ladies an impromptu Bhangra lesson and have them all balle-balle-ing with new-found abandon. Vicky's grandma and mom get Ashima's teetotal dad drunk, but the real intoxication is from pure joy. Alas, the truth will and does out, and Ashima goes ballistic when she discovers Vicky's donor past. Will they be able to settle differences and overcome what Ashima perceives as a colossal breach of trust? I am going to stay mum on this - for you really should find out for yourselves.
I'm impressed that John Abraham had the acumen to spot the potential in this unconventional project and made it his first producing effort. Kudos to Juhi Chaturvedi who penned a highly original story, screenplay and dialogue, and got the flavours and nuances of Punjabi-centric Delhi and Anglophile Calcutta just right.
Shoojit Sircar directs with a light, but ever observant touch, and makes his large cast people you care about. Ayushmaan Khurana doesn't possess movie-star looks but his delightful, ingratiating personality and confidence should compensate abundantly. Yami Gautam is a classic Indian beauty and manages to takes one's breath away in simple every-day clothing - I can't wait to see the results when Manish Malhotra gets his designing hands on her in the Yash Raj extravaganzas that are bound to follow - and she's a good actress, to boot.
This intelligent, generous, warm-hearted take on sperm donation does indeed, as its tagline naughtily promises, make every drop count! A month ago when I first saw the trailer of Vicky Donor, I was outright shocked - had the limit of vulgarity been crossed that Bollywood was now making movies on sperm donors!!
Finally when I decided to see it post hearing some rave reviews I had difficulty telling my folks that I am going for a film like Vicky Donor - obviously a crude Punjabi sex comedy.
Except I couldn't have been more wrong and pleasantly surprised by what might just not be the best film this year but a landmark film in general. Just about everything in the film was not just good it was damn perfect. So, as the story goes Vicky Arora Anshuman Khurana is your average Punjabi Delhi boy a character type way too visible in almost every next film these days His paths cross with a desperate Dr.
Chaddha Annu Kapoor — a fertility specialist who is obsessed with good quality sperm. Chaddha's clinic is under threat as most of the sperms in his sperm bank are not up to the mark and can't deliver the "goods". The first half of the film is primarily driven by Dr. Chaddha trying to convince Vicky to become a paid donor as his sperms result showcase him as having the highest fertility and motility rates.
There are also other interesting characters like Vicky's mother Dolly who runs a beauty parlour and Ashima's English speaking stereotypical "bong" father. It is unsaid there are three things that work flawlessly for the film — the first is the screen writing. From the story to the dialogues to the way this difficult topic is laid out — it is an almost perfect script.
Without her writing this would never have been the film it turns out. It would have been tempting to convert this story into a long series of sex jokes what with the central topic being sperm. As a matter of fact, in the hands of commercialized Bolllywood it would have become just that one can imagine a Sajid khan overfilling it with sex jokes and laughing himself the loudest Except that the screenplay just does not allow that.
There is hardly a joke in the film which would qualify as toiler humor — a masterstroke as it not only makes the story credible but also allows it to have a smart social message. The credit goes to the dialogues and situations. From the Bengali — North Indian wedding which was so apt since I myself underwent one recently to the second half where the protagonists face a personal challenge - the script is plain brilliant!! The second point which stands out and practically runs Vicky donor are the performances.
Annu Kapoor has always been an exceptional actor from his Tezaab days but in Vicky Donor he is touching a new high. You know he hits home when one ends up understanding his frustration of trying to explain to people that sperm donation is not a dirty profession but the need of the hour almost like a social service.
The other standout performance is of Anshuman Khurana as Vicky. The cheesy oneliners he uses to woo Ashima would have been PJs in the hands of any other actor but Anshuman delivers them with the perfect tilt of head.
Not to mention his well handled moments of poignancy in the second half of the film. One actually looks forward to their scenes in the films. This hilarious and continuous check on reality makes this film a pleasure to watch.
The third point that stands out is the editing - at exactly 2 hours, Vicky Donor makes for an enjoyable minutes, no time is wasted on anything which does not add value to the script. Even a romantic evening out for the couple ends in a revelation which is that check of reality the film keeps subtlety bringing about.
The slice of life comedy with an emotional social message genre has seen the Munnabhai movies and 3 idiots as the best entries so far. Vicky Donor is a wonderful addition to this genre and makes it all the more relevant and believable. Overall, I would recommend this film to anyone who likes to watch entertaining cinema and yet not leave their brains at home. So do go out watch this film and don't forget to tell your parents that you are going for Vicky Donor — a comedy about sperm donation.
Cunning, smart, fast-paced. Those are just some words to describe Vicky Arora and also I'd use the same words to describe this movie. If you like comedies with an actual script and not just over-done slapstick humor Like the horrible Housefull 2 , Vicky Donor is for you.
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