I honestly want to know what Dheraaj Ratan was thinking when he wrote the story of Ambarsariya, even Director Mandeep Kumar of Jinhe Mere Dil Luteya fame must have lost all of his senses when accepting this script to direct. The films main core crux is pathetic, the whole raw agent angle, and especially the films climax is cringe worthy bad, and laughable. The story had potential but was translated on screen in a childish manner (literally).The films only saving grace is Punjab's rising superstar Diljit Donsaj,he saves the film to an extent with his impeccable comic timing, but that wasn't enough this time around. A film like Ambarsariya had mammoth expectations,Dosanj is at his peak ( his fame singing wise and acting wise is huge worldwide at the moment),and Kumar is a hit director and was working with a hit punjabi script writer Dheraaj Ratan. I just don't understand with so much potential how did things go so haywire in the writing department. But more in depth analysis on that later.
Story wise the film is about Jatt Ambarsariya who lives dual life as a RAW agent and insurance agent. He is put on a mission to save the honest and idealistic Home Minister of Punjab from a drug mafia who is plotting the minister's murder. During the course of the mission, Jatt Ambarsariya also meets Jasleen Kaur, his boss at the insurance company and Kirat his landlord. How he balances his love triangle with the two mentioned above, and how he saves the home minister is what forms the films crux.
Acting wise Diljit Dosanj is at his comic best again, one just wishes he would expand his acting profile a bit, and show more layers in his act especially when he is supposed to play a RAW agent. Being a little more serious, and working on his action would have gone a long way in this film for him. If he keeps treading the same path he will be the Indian Kevin Hart, no will take his acting seriously people will just laugh at me till he is trending, that is until they find the next scapegoat. Navneet Kaur Dhillion, Laureen Gottlieb, and Monica Gill just add glamour. Rest of the casts special appearances were adequate.
What works for Ambarsariya is the film has the signature Diljit humour, where his one liners, and gags will keep the audience laughing throughout the film at different junctures. Diljit and his great music is the only saving grace of the film. However I did like the way Diljit investigated the 3 Jaspreet's it was a novel concept and a very funny series of sequences. But even Diljit's humour is losing its novelty because he is repeating himself in every film. He needs to reinvent himself. Now to the bad part,the films core concept, and script is a huge letdown. The whole raw agent, and assassination angle was not presented properly therefore everything to do with this subplot looked pathetic. Especially the climax, were the missing link aka the killer was revealed,that whole scene needed to be edited out and shot again with a new killer, what was shown on screen was damn stupid. And the whole layer cake rip off of not revealing the hero's name is again a pathetic move by the makers, because they are trying to rip off a classic.
Overall while I wont lie I did laugh quite a few times during the films duration, but it just wasn't enough to make Ambarsariya a good film this is because expectations were high from Diljit, Director Mandeep Kumar and writer Dheraaj Ratan, and they have failed with dumb concept in this film which had potential, but nothing was too see on screen. This film is a DVD watch, you will probably enjoy it more at home then at theatres unless your a die hard Diljit fan then a theatre watch is warranted.... I guess.
2.5/5* Grade: 56% C-
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