Film

The Angrez 2

Name: The Angrez 2
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2015
Cast: Mast Ali, Kuntaa Nikkil, Dheer Charan Srivastav, Zeq McCoy, Anu Verma

Comedy
Light-hearted

A Hyderabad comedy sequel where returning NRIs clash with a local antagonist still nursing old grudges. Broad, silly, rooted in regional Indian humour and the eternal friction between cosmopolitan outsiders and entrenched local power. Energetic in the way Hindi comedies of this era tend to be—not subtle, but committed to the bit.

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