Hunterrr

Clearing the doubts about the film's negative impact first, thankfully this is not any cheap, sleazy sex comedy as portrayed by its theatrical trailer, possibly designed with the only intention of grabbing some instant attention. Hence giving the project its deserving due, yes this is not any milestone kind of a film in this particular genre. But it still remains a mature take on the subject revolving around a character who has grown up thinking about sex alone instead of love and is now suffering due to the same in his later years heading towards the middle age.

HUNTERRR begins on an interesting note with a series of flashbacks coming repeatedly in the narration and its first 30-40 minutes realistically depicting the age of adolescence in an entertaining comic manner setting a fine premise. It beautifully takes you back in the 80s in those times of 'Adult Video Parlours' running illegally, tickets being sold in black and cinema being the only entertainment for the people from all age groups. As the main protagonist grows up to be a college going boy, he teaches you a new word "Vaasugiri" and turns into a hunter of girls/women looking for some casual sex. The only erotic scene is served just before the interval and overall the film makes a decent impact on the viewer mainly due to its unexpected mature take quite different from the cunningly compiled trailer having a completely different vision of a B grade movie.

Admitting the vulgarity, it does hurt you in a scene where the young boys are trying to touch the middle aged ladies in the market as their private game and the obscene suggestive gesture shown in its publicity poster. Yet as a whole, the honest biographical tone doesn't demean the women, who actually turn out to be an equal partner in the crime too representing their bold new-age avatar in its various sequences.

However, as usual the light-hearted feels gives away to a tiring repetitive run in the film's second half. And we get to see a quite slow, confusing and too long narrative towards the end that ideally should have been summed up within a two hour format. The last hour sadly puts it back into the category of just a well-intentioned attempt that shies away from trying anything experimental in its climax that could have been its highlight as a pleasant shock. Probably (debutant) writer-director Harshavardhan Kulkarni got caught in the dilemma of how to end the film, that doesn't put it in the category of a too mature or an artistic take on the subject finding fewer takers. He surely had got the opportunity of making an off-beat gem moving ahead of all those cheap sex comedies making 100 crores, but couldn't maintain the pace and the entertaining factor continuing in its over-lengthy & monotonous second half as required.

Having said that, I would still like to praise him for a fine effort made, not falling into the trap of using the sick tricks of the trade when it comes to such 'sex-based films'.

Following the 25 years life span of its key character, HUNTERRR gets its much needed lift from the script and dialogues that do not depend upon any cuss words at all. So there are no 'Censor beeps' heard in the film surprisingly which certainly needs to be counted as a rare appreciable merit in the current scenario. The minimally used songs are just fine (composed by Khamosh Shah) making it as an interesting soundtrack particularly due to the numbers sung by Bappi Lahiri and Amit Trivedi (penned by Swanand Kirkire). Plus the background score certainly provides a great support to the film along with its art-direction & cinematography. But on the other hand, a better editing could have helped a lot since moving 'back and forth in time' starts irritating after a while, putting it frankly.

In the performance section, HUNTERRR truly belongs to two people alone and they are Gulshan Deviah as Mandaar and Radhika Aapte as Tripti playing their respective roles brilliantly. Gulshan displays a fine sense of comic timing with an emotional sincerity too that doesn't let the viewer hate his 'negative' character of a 'sex- maniac' and Radhika delivers another lovable polished performance winning the hearts post BADLAPUR. So the film deserves to be seen for these two actors alone if not for anything else. In the supporting cast, Sai Tamhankar provides the erotica real-well, Veera Saxena makes a decent debut with a comfortable ease and Sagar Deshmukh truly does a noteworthy job in his few scenes coming after long gaps.

In short, though the subject is disturbing focusing on just sex alone, yet the film deserves to be rated as a contributing step in our progressive Hindi cinema that doesn't bow down to the usual cheapness planned for some quick box office returns. Its not a milestone alright but has it visible merits and a mature take on the subject too with some outstanding realistic performances forcing you to admit the harsh truths of our questionable real lives shamelessly.

Anyway, ending on a different note, HUNTERRR made me recall one of my favourites Hindi cult classics that also revolves around the different phases in a man's life and his loving relationships with three different women teaching him the meaning of love. The film was showman Raj Kapoor's most beloved child MERA NAAM JOKER released in 1970.

But perhaps due to the changing times & mindsets, where MERA NAAM JOKER focused merely on heartfelt emotions, love and trust, HUNTERRR solely emphasis on sex and one night stands alone representing the inevitable change around us in the 21st century. So forgetting its misguiding trailer, do give it a try as a mature adult comedy rising much above the films we have earlier seen in this controversial genre.

Hunterrr is the best ( Sex-Comedy ) movie. It's not Worse Film Like "Masti Series, Mastizaade, and Kya Kool Hai Hum Series". That All ( Sex-Comedy) movies was wants To Get Disaster and Only Hunterrr wants to get Seper Hit🔥

OK so this movie doesn't deserve an 8. But i'm still gonna give it that for a few reasons. This movie clearly looks like it was written for stage plays and mainly enacted by stage actors. This movie starts off as a cheap sex comedy and then adds surprising amount of emotional depth. What i don't understand if this movie with its low budget and no big named stars with a crass topic can do that, then why do these big budget movies suffer from being totally nonsensical from beginning to the end. Why do their emotional scenes feel like pure melodrama. There is a lot of good talent here and i wish they can get this cast to do a good movie with a strong story.

Hunterrr : a refreshing change from other stereotype adult comedies. Direction was absolutely flawless with a non linear screenplay.The entire cast did a wonderful job with stunning performances from Gulshan Devaiah,Sai Tamhankar and Radhika Apte. A mind blowing and unconventional soundtrack with coming of age lyrics; and a very different and matured take on the subject of premarital sex and arranged marriages. One of the best comedies i've seen in recent times. In the end you will be left wanting for more though the runtime of the movie is a little more than expected. A perfect movie if you want to chill out and have a good time. 9/10 stars.

Hunterrr is not all entire sex comedy start to end, in fact i would rate Hunterrr ahead of many of that genre like Kya supercool hain hum, Grand masti etc. Highlight of Hunterrr is the way the topic has been dealt and how we share it with others.

Gulshan Devaiah as Mandar Ponkshe(Vasu) is fun to watch. Radhika and Sai are impeccable.Supporting star cast along with it make it brilliant. Watch out for characters like Mandar's two cousins.

When i first saw the trailers i thought it would get banned. This has been the behavior of censor board these days but very happy that the content of Hunterrr got passed. Directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni who is the real hero here ,Hunterrr will make a mark of its own with the youth as they will relate more to Hunterrr. Kudos to Phantom productions backing this project.

Will go with 8/10