It begin as a farce about a bank robbery and evolves into a call for revolution against fake godmen, corrupt politicians and peddlers of ex...
It begin as a farce about a bank robbery and evolves into a call for revolution against fake godmen, corrupt politicians and peddlers of extremist thought. Though Bahut Hua Sammaan doesn’t want to be described merely as a stoner comedy, for all its proclamations and provocations, it works best as one.
Ashish R Shukla, the director of the film Prague and the web series Banned and Undekhi, ably steers the anything-goes screenplay by Avinash Singh and Vijay Narayan Verma with the help of a strong and risk-taking cast. Among the key characters in the superbly performed ensemble piece are Raghav Juyal and Abhishek Chauhan as Bony and Fundoo – engineering students whose dreams of a 9-5 job are shattered by poor marks.
Self-described Marxist revolutionary Bakchod Baba (Sanjay Mishra) gives the boys a hot tip – channel your inner Clyde and Clyde and destroy capitalism by robbing the bank on the college campus. After a long and convoluted operation, the wannabe robbers finally enter the bank’s vault, only to realise that its valuables have already been stolen by a pair of crooks who have allowed themselves to be spotted by the closed-circuit cameras.
Super-cop Bobby (Nidhi Singh), who loves third-degree torture but doesn’t care for the kinky sex suggested...