Some films invite you to watch. Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos demands that you surrender. Produced by Aamir Khan and written, directed, and led by Vir Das, this spy-comedy gleefully throws storytelling rules out the window. From its opening moments, the film signals that logic is optional and chaos is the only guiding principle.
Vir Das plays Happy Patel, a “spy” by accident rather than skill. The film doesn’t parody the spy genre — it bulldozes it. Language becomes a playground where English twists into Hindi insults, Hindi bends into nonsense bravado, and profanity is used as rhythm rather than shock. The humour is loud, restless, and proudly nonsensical.
Visually, everything is exaggerated: performances are theatrical, frames are crowded, and subtlety is banished. There’s no grounded character to anchor the madness — and that is precisely the joke. The plot doesn’t progress logically; it stumbles forward on sheer comic momentum.
Mona Singh embraces her flamboyant gang-leader role, while Imran Khan’s long-awaited return leans into nostalgia through playful musical callbacks. Aamir Khan’s reunion with Vir Das adds a meta wink for fans of Delhi Belly.
This isn’t cinema that seeks approval. It seeks participation. Either you embrace the absurdity — or it happily leaves you behind.