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Hunterrr
2015 film directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hunterrr is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language adult comedy film written and directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni. The film stars Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika Apte and Sai Tamhankar.[4] The film revolves around an unassuming sex addict[5] and his lustful journey in life.[6]
The film was released on 20 March 2015.[7] The film was remade in Telugu as Babu Baga Busy (2017).
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Mandar is a playboy from his teenage years. His first girlfriend, falls for him after he notices her, over her much prettier friend. Mandar explains his low-risk strategy to his friends — he claims the less pretty one is bound to accept the proposal, while the pretty friend feels ignored and rejected and is likely to chase you now.
For college, Mandar moves to a larger city, where he observes his friend, Kshitij, bring home a different girl each week. Mandar invites new girlfriend, Parul, to his all-boys' hostel. They are caught mid-foreplay by the resident supervisor, and Mandar is expelled. He moves off-campus, where he pursues his next target, an older woman named Jyotsana from his apartment complex. Jyotsana's sex life has plateaued in her middle years, and her affair with Mandar becomes intense. Her husband, initially a spectator, finally intervenes, forcing Mandar out of the apartment again.
Over the next few years, Mandar has numerous casual encounters, but refuses to have a committed relationship. Approaching 30, he wishes to settle down. He meets girls after matching with them on matrimonial websites, but they reject him for his promiscuous past. For his next meeting, with Tripti, Mandar decides to lie. He pretends to be sexually inexperienced, but Tripti, unlike the other girls, has had many relationships since her teenage years. She rejects Mandar for incompatibility, but he continues to pursue her in a platonic, non-romantic way. Tripti warms up to him, and they get engaged.
The absence of a sexual relationship with Tripti, coupled with old habits, drives Mandar to seek casual sex. After hooking up with an ex-lover, he tries to seduce a random girl at the airport. Embarrassed at his behaviour, he comes clean with Tripti about his sexual history and numerous partners. To Mandar’s surprise, Tripti welcomes the news. They share their first kiss, and rather than call off the wedding, she asks Mandar to get an STD test before their marriage.
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Cast
- Gulshan Devaiah as Mandar Ponkshe, a 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 Tatwawdi as 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
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Production
The entire filming was done in Mumbai, Pune and some rural parts of Maharashtra.
Music
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]
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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 Rediff gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 and said that, "Hunterrr is a deeply problematic film, and fails rather miserably".[16] Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu found the writing of the film to be weak and said that, "In its current form, this Hunterrr is more horny than trigger-happy. He just walks around with a gun and rarely fires – except once in the whole film."[17] Saibal Chatterjee of Financial Express said that, "The film tends to ramble aimlessly after it has made its pivotal point: the path of juvenile carnality has more thorns than roses. It goes round in concentric circles as the hero creates a web of problems for himself".[18] Shubha Sherry Saha of Mid-Day gave the film a rating of 2.5 out of 5 and said that, "There is a subtle difference between a pure, unbridled take on the 'taboo' topic of sex and a tacky one that tries too hard. Unfortunately, though Harshavardhan Kulkarni's 'Hunterrr' shows a lot of promise, it veers more towards the latter."[19] Sweta Kausal of Hindustan Times gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 and said that, "Hunterrr is not great, but director Harshvardhan Kulkarni, who has also written the script, has managed to churn out an interesting film that might become a stepping stone in this genre for Hindi cinema."[20]
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