Hunterrr
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Directed by | Harshavardhan Kulkarni |
Written by | Harshavardhan Kulkarni |
Produced by | Kirti Nakhwa Rohit Chugani Ketan Maru Vikas Bahl Vikramaditya Motwane Anurag Kashyap |
Starring |
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Cinematography | John Jacob Payyapalli |
Edited by | Kirti Nakhwa |
Music by | Songs: Khamosh Shah Score: Phantom Films |
Distributed by | Shemaroo Entertainment Falco International |
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Running time | 141 minutes[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹3 crore[2] |
Box office | ₹11.2 crore[3] |
Hunterrr is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language
The film was released on 20 March 2015.[7] The film was remade in Telugu as Babu Baga Busy (2017).
Plot
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Mandar Ponkshe, is an atypical youth, a sex addict and a player. Even in his late 30s, he is only interested in 'scoring' one night stands while his friends are all married with kids. The story opens with one such scene where his friends tell him to get married as he is too old to screw around; in turn, Mandar explains his philosophy about sex as a purely physical act, somewhat akin to the satisfaction of the 'perfect' bowel movement. He asserts it "as a physical need", whereas to him "love is a different ball game and isn't necessary for sex".
The narration now moves back several years to Mandar's teenage. The year is 1989, whence Mandar along with his cousin Dilip (nicknamed Yusuf as a tribute to the thespian) visits his village in Maharashtra where their cousin Kshitij is already waiting for them. 15-year-old Kshitij is studying in a military school and is mature beyond his years in his views and aspects about marriage, love and sex. By the end of their vacation Mandar realises that he is no longer a kid. His life becomes more exotic as he starts to woo girls, watching adult films and fantasizing about ladies.
Later in the year 1995, Mandar is now grown up and is an engineering student in Pune. Dilip and Kshitij accompany him there too; the latter is an army officer by now. Mandar stalks Parul only for having sex with her. While making out in the hostel room, they are caught by the warden and Mandar gets expelled from the hostel, leading him to rent a small flat. There he meets a beautiful housewife Jyotsna and sets his sights on her. The dapper Kshitij, in the meanwhile, beds a steady parade of stunning girls at Mandar's flat. One of Kshitij's many girlfriends has a friend Anju who is being sexually abused by her own father. Greatly incensed on learning of this heinous act, Kshitij beats up the father and takes Anju and her kid brother away thus rescuing them. Kshitij falls in love with her and stops seeing other women. Amused, Mandar and Dilip talk about how Kshitij didn't fall for any of the pretty girls he was seeing, but fell in love with a dark complexioned plain girl. Kshitij marries Anju and they eventually have a son.
Getting back to Mandar's alliance with Jyotsana, their casual flirting gradually reaches a point where they start an affair. Hers is a marriage that has petered into nothingness, given her husband has let himself go out of shape and humour. Jyotsna needing
After college, Mandar is shown working a full-time job but is involved in a
Kshitij is killed during an encounter with insurgents in Kashmir. Mandar again is left heartbroken from losing his cousin and friend. This incident brings Tripti close to him as she comforts him. They eventually get engaged, but Mandar is having a tough time with the idea of monogamy. He has one last encounter with Savita Bhabhi. Worse still, while on an errand to pick up a distant relative from the airport, Mandar assumes that the person hasn't turned up and instead tries to pick up an attractive woman who turns out to be the distant relative. Embarrassed and shamed, Mandar barely gets out of the situation.
At this point, Tripti's ex-boyfriend Chaxx enters the equation. Cool, suave and charming, Chaxx is all that Mandar is not. That, and Tripti's history with Chaxx trouble him no end and make him insecure to the point where he assumes that Tripti is leaving him for Chaxx. Mandar decides to confess the truth about his sex obsession to Tripti and does so. Tripti also reveals that she got pregnant when she was with Chaxx and there was nothing between them as they have broken up. Tripti makes it clear to Mandar that Chaxx abandoned her when she needed him the most and therefore she can never take him back. She also tells him that Mandar is her present and she wants a future with him.
Mandar happy as he is to marry the girl he loves as he narrates the mishaps between Tripti and himself to his cousin Dilip.
Cast
- philanderer
- Radhika Apte as Tripti Gokhale
- Sai Tamhankar as Jyotsna Surve
- Sagar Deshmukh as Dilip "Yusuf" Ponkshe
- Veera Saxena[8] as Parul Kotak
- Rachel D'Souza as Shobha N. T.
- Vaibbhav Tatwawdias Kshitij
- Suraj Jagan as Chakravarthy "Chaxx"
- Sandeep Dhabale as Mandar's friend
- Neena Kulkarni as Mandar's mother
- Ravindra Mankani as Mandar's father
- Pratibha Date as Tripti's mother
- Dilip Vengurlekar as Tripti's father
- Nitesh Pandey as Deepak Surve, Jyotsna's husband
- Hansa Singh as Savitha Sahay
- Subhadip Raha as the policeman
Production
The entire
.Music
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The soundtrack of Hunterrr consists of seven songs composed by Khamosh Shah while the lyrics have been written by Vijay Maurya, Azazul Haque and Swanand Kirkire.[10]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hunterrr 303" | Vijay Maurya | Vaishali Made | 5:16 |
7. | "Dil Lagaana" | Khamosh Shah | Altaf Raja | 4:05 |
Total length: | 32:04 |
Reception
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the movie has an approval score of 67% on the basis of 6 reviews with an average rating of 5.7 out of 10.[11] Rajeev Masand didn't like the portrayal of women in the film saying that the movie shows them as "desperate-for-marriage becharis, or unhappy frustrated housewives. The sexist stereotyping is one thing; more offensive is the fact that the women in the film are uniformly dumb." Rajeev gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 and said that, "Too bad the film itself is promising but ultimately disappointing. A film, that in the end, delivers little else but cheap laughs."[12] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 saying that, "‘Hunterr’ could have been a genuinely ‘adult’ comedy of manners, but it stays right where it begins, the phrase ‘coming-of-age’ functioning more as eliciting an embarrassed titter than reaching the goal-post."[13] Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 and said that, "Investing a bit more on real emotions of the lead characters, instead of fast-forwarding to their baser instincts constantly, would have made the film more relatable."[14] Faiza S Khan of The Guardian gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 and said that, "This sex comedy's lead is creepy and cringeworthy, but at least the film manages to take a small step away from the genre's usual crass misogyny".[15]
Raja Sen of
See also
References
- ^ "Hunterrr Cast & Crew". Bollywood Hungama. 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Box Office: Understanding the economics of Hunterrr". Bollywood Hungama. 31 March 2015.
- ^ "Hunterrr Box Office Collection". Bollywood Hungama. 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Gulshan Devaiah to make a special appearance in Junooniyat". The Indian Express. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ "'Hunterrr' – disarmingly frank sex comedy". Dainik Jagran. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Hunterrr trailer: Gulshan Devaiah, the sex addict has all the fun in this adult film!". India.com. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ "'Hunterrr' – Movie review". Mid-Day. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ Daughter of Indian Bollywood actor Sharat Saxena
- ^ "Hunterrr (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". iTunes.
- ^ "Hunterrr – 2015 – Zee Music Company". Gaana.
- ^ "Hunterrr – 2015". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ "Lewd Conduct". Rajeev Masand.
- ^ "'Hunterrr' movie review: The film is about a guy who can't keep it in his pants". The Indian Express. 23 March 2015.
- ^ "Hunterrr Movie Review – Meena Iyer". The Times of India.
- ^ Khan, Faiza S. (April 2015). "Hunterrr review – half-hearted look at India's evolving sexual mores". The Guardian.
- Rediff.
- ^ Kamath, Sudhish (20 March 2015). "Hunterr: This gun is loaded… with blanks". The Hindu.
- ^ "Hunterrr movie review: Adult drama, but only for the callow". Financial Express. 21 March 2015.
- ^ "'Hunterrr' – Movie review". Mid-Day. 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Hunterrr review: No milestone, but a step towards mature sex comedy". Hindustan Times. 20 March 2015.
External links
- Hunterrr at IMDb