36 Farm House Review: Mundane and mediocre film

Hyderabad: At its best, ‘36 Farm House’ is a satirical comedy on a superficial level that does not even work as a good, moral and cautionary tale. The narrative proceeds to tell us the story of three sons trying their best to change their mother’s will to their respective advantage. Set during the 2020 lockdown, […]

Hyderabad: At its best, ‘36 Farm House’ is a satirical comedy on a superficial level that does not even work as a good, moral and cautionary tale.

The narrative proceeds to tell us the story of three sons trying their best to change their mother’s will to their respective advantage. Set during the 2020 lockdown, the film appears to be a quickie trying to pass off the story as a relevant tale of our times.

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The narrative begins with migrants returning to their roots. Jay Prakash (Sanjay Mishra), aka JP, a smooth-talking opportunist, and father of two grown-up children, with the help of Benny (Ashwini Kalsekar), wriggle his way as a chef, into the house of 85-year-old Padmini Raj Singh (Madhuri Bhatia), the owner of 36 Farm House and its 300-acre property who had bequeathed her assets to her eldest son Raunak (Vijay Raaz). JP gets the job claiming to be unmarried and with no family members to claim his own.

JP learns about Benny’s devious plan of stealing from her employers. During the same time, his son Harry (Amol Parashar), meets the designer Antra (Barkha Singh), who is heading to her grandmother Padmini’s residence. Together, they come to 36 Farm House.

To add to the chaos is JP’s wife who lands up at 36 Farm House in search of her husband, while an investigation into the murder of a young lawyer, who was deputed by Padmini’s younger sons — Gajendra and Virendra, to get their mother’s will changed, looms large.

But the plot, instead of focusing on the three sons, factors in several other characters with their motive, diluting the narrative and reducing it into a farce. The writing as well as the direction are purely perfunctory, very mundane, and mediocre to digest.

Mounted with moderate production values, the film is a bit disappointing since it comes from the stable of Subhash Ghai’s Mukta Arts Ltd.

Film: 36 Farm House (Streaming on Zee5)
Director: Ram Ramesh Sharma
Cast: Amol Parashar, Barkha Singh, Sanjay Mishra, Vijay Raaz, Madhuri Bhatia, Ashwini Kalsekar, Flora Saini, Rahul Singh, Ishita Deshmukh, Nivedeta Bhargava, Gaurav Ghatnekar, Pritam Kagne, Pradeep Bajpai, Liza Singh, Hetal Puniwala

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