The sluggish, singularly unfunny Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi, a follow-up to 2016's frisky Happy Bhag Jayegi in which the eponymous runaway bride had ended up in Lahore and a right royal mess, serves up a convoluted version of Chinese 'chukkers' that does not raise as much as a few mild chuckles. We aren't sure we are looking forward to it. 2 that their next meeting back in Amritsar would be in less confusing and more relaxed circumstances. When the two namesakes, after much listless huffing and puffing that sees them encounter old and new friends and confront sly foes, come face to face in Shanghai, Happy No. Its gags are gratuitous and the one-liners too vacuous to hit home. It doesn't get too far because it merely runs around in circles. It might have buoyed up the film if only it had the comic energy to go the distance. Not that Sonakshi does not give the role her best shot. The other (Diana Penty, this time in a special appearance) flits in and out of the picture in a completely random manner. One Happy (Sonakshi Sinha) does all the running. Riding on a screenplay that yo-yos wildly between the utterly inane and the overly contrived, two's a crowd in Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi. This caper flick can't make do with one Happy.
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