Puaada Movie Review: Punjabi Mania present before you the full movie review of recently released Punjabi movie titled ‘Puaada’.

Cast: Ammy Virk, Sonam Bajwa, Anita Devgan, Hardeep Gill, Seema Kaushal, Sukhwinder Singh Chahal, Nisha Bano, Gurpreet Bhangu, Prakash Gadhu, Sukhwinder Raj, Mintu Kapa, Honey Mattu, Balwinder Bullet, Kaka Kautki, Mohini Toor, Jashanjit Gosha, Deepak Niaz, Ajit Mehla, Neeraj Kaushal, Sandeep Pateela.

Director: Rupinder Chahal.

Producer: Atul Bhalla, Pawan Gill, Anurag Singh, Aman Gill, Balwinder Singh Janjua.

Music: V Rakx Music.

Genre: Comedy, Romantic.

Running Time: 130 minutes (U certified).

Puaada Movie Review

It was only a matter of time for comedy, Punjab's favourite and most successful genre by far, to return on the silver screens after the re-opening of cinema halls post the second wave of COVID-19 in India. Hence, 'Puaada', only the second movie to release, being an out-and-out comedy has given signs of assurance that things are getting back to normal in sooth.

Essentially a love story of Jaggi (Ammy Virk) and Ronak Dhillon (Sonam Bajwa), Puaada successfully manages to make the audiences convulse with laughter. Puaada, which translates to 'problem' in English, is not complicated but just an amalgamation of knotty problems which the lead duo faces before marriage.

Jaggi, a dairy owner, and Raunak, an MBA student, have been dating for a couple of years. Jaggi travels from one corner of the city to  another to not just deliver milk and complementary butter and paneer at his girlfriend's house but also impress her Air Force Officer father (Hardeep Gill).

It is this straightforward and ordinary premises that the story revolves around until, of course, Puaada happens. Writers Balwinder Singh Janjua, Rupinder Chahal and Anil Rodhan do well in converting a real-life treacherous incident of Punjab into a satire.

Chahal, who has been in the industry for almost a decade and a half now and has even co-written a couple of Hindi movies in 'Mubarkan' (2017) and 'Firangi' (2017), puts on display commendable work in his first film as a director. Puaada will seldom give you impressions of being raw or rusty.

While revealing the aforementioned satire would be giving away a vital part of the script, dialogues written by Rakesh Dhawan emerge as the biggest plus point of the movie. Dhawan, who has been both consistent and effective in the writing department of comedy movies in the recent years, is doing the exact quality of work required to build a base before his upcoming directorial debut.

Having said that, a collective failure on the part of the writing team lies around the characters of antagonists namely Tariq (Balwinder Bullet), Bilal (Deepak Niaz), Mooda (Ajit Mehla) and Teela (Neeraj Kaushal). It is one facet of Puaada's writing which looks scrappy and inconsistent and unequivocally needed more work to be done.

As far as the actors are concerned, Virk is practically seen in each and every frame of the movie and even justifies his presence with his effortless work. Bajwa, who isn't just there to play the love interest, also has a lot of work to do which she does quite sincerely. Some of her best scenes in the movie are likely to remind you of her career-best work as Babbu Bains in Manav Shah's 'Ardab Mutiyaran' (2019).

A conjoint victory for Puaada lies in the fact that supporting actors do equal heavy lifting to make the movie what it is. While Jeet Kaur (Anita Devgan), Gajjan Singh (Sukhwinder Singh Chahal), Deepi (Nisha Bano) and Banto aka Speaker chachi (Gurpreet Bhangu) impress in their fair amount of screen time, a solitary scene of a policeman (Sandeep Pateela) also contributes to the humour of the movie.

Much like the growth of Puaada in the lives of Jaggi and Ronak, comic element also grows in the movie. Even at the cost of being slapstick at times, Puaada ensures to make you laugh. As is generally the case in movies of this genre, logic on several occasions is questionable but it is what it is. If laughter allures you and occasional ignorance is your forte, Puaada might be a movie made just for you.