This is a replay of Hindi cinema. Remember how till as late as 2000, Hindi cinema did not really excel in good comedy, and some better-than-average comedies were box-office washouts or, at best, average. The same illness seems to have befallen the Hindi OTT space. But for one âPanchayatâ (just as we had one âChalti Ka Naam Gaadiâ and one âPyar Kiye Jaaâ in the days of yore) last year, comedies on OTT have been a no-no among what are considered the laugh-inducing breaks from the predominant thrillers (of all calibers), romances (another weak area) et al.
And âRunaway Lugaaiâ is the perfect example. It talks about the uber-modern small-town girl Bulbul (Ruhi Singh) who loves to wear scanty dresses and be photographed in them and has ambitions to be a free spirit and a Bhojpuri film actress. She even smokes marijuana (leading to the horrible pun by a character, âmarriage-hua-naââyucks!) and makes her husband Rajnikant smoke it, too