Boyz 4 Movie Review:
Boyz 4 may have recorded history for the number of sequels but still haven’t managed to deliver anything above average!
Rating:
Plot:
After topping their 12th exams, Dhungya and Dhairya get in a feud with Kabir as he bags the 3rd rank. Their friendship takes them all the way to London where an adventure trip awaits!
Team:
Director: Vishal Devrukhkar
Writer: Hrishikesh Koli
Cast: Pratik Lad, Parth Bhalerao, Sumant Shinde, Gaurav More
Movie Review:
After the previous parts stellar success at the box office, Boyz are back to the big screen with a 4th part! This is the first time in Marathi film industry that a franchise has had such a run. But still all except the first one has been an average affair.
Picking up from where they left off, Dhairya-Dhungya-Kabir (Pratik Lad, Parth Bhalerao, Sumant Shinde) are awaiting their 12th exam results and Madan Bhondve’s (Girish Kulkarni) revenge remains incomplete entering the 4th part. The day arrives and their 12th results are finally out. Dhairya and Dhungya top the exams with 1st and 2nd respectively. But Kabir gets the 3rd rank, unfortunately below them.
Agitated and angry on them since they cheated during the exam, he vows to break their friendship and stay away from them for his good. Kabir goes abroad to study in London. Whereas Dhungya and Dhairya keep up with their mischiefs in the college. Naru (Gaurav More) is also back to the college but a completely changed man, literally! (Since the character was previously played by Onkar Bhojne).
Since Dhairya and Dhungya topped the exams, they are sent on a cultural exchange to London and they finally get their chance to get Kabir’s revenge right in London. Meanwhile Kabir has made friends with the college bully Kunal (Abhinay Berde). Won’t spoil it for you, but this is when the film starts dishing out twists! And the movie goes on!
The comedy thankfully is a bit less vulgar this time around but is also in scarcity. A very few laughable moments and a lot of lectures on deshbhakti make it a complete mess. Boyz has never been about anything except friendship and that is why this one feels like a misstep. The direction is quite average and the screenplay is paced unevenly. The movie picks up in the start but drags itself a lot in the first half and then again picks up in the second half. The 4th wall breaking jokes work really well.
Can’t even imagine how they approved such hideous accents just to make the characters NRI’s. One thing that has been a major strong point in all the previous parts is the presence of at least one dance banger of a song! Avadhoot Gupte fails to make one this time! The acting is the same old from all characters but Abhinay Berde manages to pull off a bully quite convincingly. Gaurav More as Naru is also great and more importantly funny!!! Girish Kulkarni’s cameo is definitely the perfect example of how screentime doesn’t really matter when it comes to impact.
If you have been a fan of the previous parts, this one would disappoint you slightly less, but if you are not a fan don’t even think about watching it!
