Weapons & Gulaabs, the brand new retro-style crime drama from Raj & DK, is dropping right now on Netflix. Serving as an ode to Bollywood within the mid-90s, the black comedy sequence blends romance and pulp comedy right into a tremendous paste, the place a wrench turning into an instrument of loss of life units off a sequence response of untamed occasions within the unpredictable city of Gulaabganj. Marking the duo’s first Netflix mission, it is price mentioning that Weapons & Gulaab’s spent an egregiously very long time in manufacturing — having dropped a teaser in September, solely to go radio silent till earlier this month. It may be assumed that the creators have been busy with Amazon Prime Video’s Farzi, however this present wasn’t talked about in Netflix’s launch 2023 launch slate both, casting doubt amongst followers.
“This time we went again to our favorite territory… embracing the storytelling fashion of our earlier movies (99, Shor In The Metropolis). And someplace alongside this course of, we discovered ourselves making a style mash in a pulpy, retro fashion,” Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK mentioned in a ready assertion. The pair describe Weapons & Gulaabs as a ‘quirky story,’ one which’s stuffed to the brim with nostalgic music and references, conveyed by way of its ensemble forged of misfits who attempt to make a reputation in a cartel-run city rampant with gang riots. First up, we have got Rajkummar Rao (Monica, O My Darling) as Paana Tipu, a lovesick mechanic, who will get roped into a lifetime of crime when he lets his interior demon out — killing intruders by stabbing a wrench down their throats.
The present reunites Rao together with his The White Tiger co-star Adarsh Gourav, who performs Chhota Ganchi, the reluctant inheritor to a drug empire, hell-bent on making his father proud. And since no crime drama is full and not using a cop, we have got Dulquer Salmaan (Sita Ramam) moving into the boots of Officer Arjun Varma. Bored by his mundane life-style, the sincere cop turns to a lifetime of chaos, trying to make a fast buck and even higher — earn a promotion. The best solution to obtain that’s by toppling the drug kingpin, and so he groups up with Chhota Ganchi to make a 5 % bonus from an unorganised heist the latter has deliberate. Amidst all this, an excessively goofy gangster named ‘4 Reduce Aatmaram’ (Gulshan Devaiah) is working free within the city, identified for killing — or fairly, cleaning — souls, with merely 4 stabs of a switchblade.
Mimicking bike chase sequences from outdated Bollywood and over-exaggerated motion, Weapons & Gulaabs additionally unfolds a revenge story, heartbreak, and a style of candy innocence by way of the eyes of three schoolmates. The sequence additionally stars the late Satish Kaushik (Mr. India) because the drug lord father Ganchi, frequent Raj & DK collaborator Ashmith Kunder (The Household Man), and Pooja Gor (The Verdict – State vs Nanavati).
Weapons & Gulaabs is out right now on Netflix.
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