Listen to Story Release Date: 10 Jul, 2024 The Netflix film 'Wild Wild Punjab' doesn't bore you, but gives you the nosiest and the noisiest one-and-a-half-hour of your life. Set in Punjab, it does what many other Bollywood films have been doing since time immemorial: stereotyping the Punjabis as loud, fun-loving people, fit for comic relief in stories. Here, the makers seem to have taken the same trope notches ahead.
We get four friends: Arore (Sunny Singh), Jainu (Jassie Gill), Honey Paaji (Manjot Singh) and the ultimate dil-tuta aashiq , Rajesh Khanna aka Khanne (Varun Sharma) on a road trip with a very peculiar mission at hand. The idea is to take revenge on Vaishali, Khanna's ex, who cheated on him with another man. The three friends try to cheer him up as he decides to ruin Vaishali's wedding.
The road trip from Patiala to Pathankot is set, and thus begins the unnecessary sexist play-off. The women in 'Wild Wild Punjab' are made to look like villains. They either need protection from the heroes or are too dumb to understand their double-meaning jokes.
Sadly, you see Patralekhaa, otherwise a commendable actor, reduced to an eye-candy in the film. 'Wild Wild Punjab' doesn't take time in setting the stage for misogyny. You see men bashing women, treating them as sexual objects and putting the onus of their happiness on their shoulders.
Sample this: A furious Vaishali calls Khanna to tell him about her wedding. She screams at him and asks him to stop stalking her. Vaishali t.