Vicky Donor

There was an aura of “cheap slapstick” in the promos of Vicky Donor. It didn’t quite indicate anything about the content except that it had to do with donating sperm. Well it was about a guy who takes to donating sperm but there is much more in Vicky Donor. A cue that a lot of trailer makers can take to ensure that one needs to communicate more about the movie in a trailer. I agree with the mini skirt analogy for a trailer as well but with Vicky Donor it was more like a maxi.

John Abraham’s first home production is about Vicky Arora (Ayushmann Khurana) who is a twenty five year old young Punjabi boy from Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi. He lives with his mother Dolly (Dolly Ahluwalia) and his grandmother (Kamlesh Gill) in a barsati in an atypical house of Lajpat Nagar. Dolly runs a beauty parlour downstairs and does well enough to keep the three of them alive. But she worries about her son who is doing nothing as of now. Vicky doesn’t want to join Dolly’s brother clothing business and is struggling to find the right thing to do.

Cut to Dr. Baldev Chopra (Annu Kapoor) who runs a fertility clinic which is not doing too well because of good quality sperm. That is where he has a chance encounter with Vicky who picks up a small argument with someone close to Chopra’s place. Gut tells Chopra that Vicky will make the best sperm donor that he could have found. Therefore the first part of the movie concentrates on getting Vicky convinced to donate. All of this is peppered with a love story that builds between Vicky and Ashima Roy (Yaami Gautam) who is an executive at a local bank.

The highlight of Vicky Donor has to be the lovely use of Delhi or should I say Dilli humour. The average Dilli wala is enough of a character and speaks in a manner that is unique enough to build memorable characters. Vicky Donor utilizes this characteristic to maximum effect. Right from the lead character who gives his best to get the Lajpat Nagar effect all the way to the Bengali father-in-law played by Jayanta Das, the peculiarities of the typical Delhiite have been captured beautifully.

Kudos as well to the script by Juhi Chaturvedi a first timer in the movie business. The humour is very good and flirts with the slapstick. It however retains a clean nature. One cannot help but laugh through most of the movie. Even in its serious parts. Even more importantly, it is clean and can be seen by most of the family. Just be prepared for some innocent questions about sperm if you have kids around. Shoojit Sircar comes back to the screen after what was a critically acclaimed movie called Yahaan from over 7 years back. Maybe he was waiting for something as good as Vicky Donor to come by his way. This is a must see for those who haven’t seen it yet. 7 on 10 in my books for certain

Trailer on http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2872812313/