Dulquer Salmaan, Rajkummar Rao-Led Guns & Gulaabs Streams Today on Netflix

Guns & Gulaabs, the brand new retro-style crime drama from Raj & DK, is dropping at present on Netflix. Serving as an ode to Bollywood within the mid-90s, the black comedy collection blends romance and pulp comedy right into a high quality paste, the place a wrench turning into an instrument of demise units off a sequence response of untamed occasions within the unpredictable city of Gulaabganj. Marking the duo’s first Netflix mission, it is price mentioning that Guns & Gulaab’s spent an egregiously very long time in manufacturing — having dropped a teaser in September, solely to go radio silent till earlier this month. It might be assumed that the creators have been busy with Amazon Prime Video’s Farzi, however this present wasn’t talked about in Netflix’s launch 2023 launch slate both, casting doubt amongst followers.

“This time we went back to our favourite territory… embracing the storytelling style of our earlier films (99, Shor In The City). And somewhere along this process, we found ourselves creating a genre mash in a pulpy, retro style,” Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK mentioned in a ready assertion. The pair describe Guns & Gulaabs as a ‘quirky story,’ one which’s stuffed to the brim with nostalgic music and references, conveyed by way of its ensemble forged of misfits who attempt to make a reputation in a cartel-run city rampant with gang riots. First up, we have got Rajkummar Rao (Monica, O My Darling) as Paana Tipu, a lovesick mechanic, who will get roped into a lifetime of crime when he lets his internal demon out — killing intruders by stabbing a wrench down their throats.

The present reunites Rao along with his The White Tiger co-star Adarsh Gourav, who performs Chhota Ganchi, the reluctant inheritor to a drug empire, hell-bent on making his father proud. And since no crime drama is full with no cop, we have got Dulquer Salmaan (Sita Ramam) getting into the boots of Officer Arjun Varma. Bored by his mundane life-style, the trustworthy cop turns to a lifetime of chaos, trying to make a fast buck and even higher — earn a promotion. The best method to obtain that’s by toppling the drug kingpin, and so he groups up with Chhota Ganchi to make a 5 p.c bonus from an unorganised heist the latter has deliberate. Amidst all this, an excessively goofy gangster named ‘4 Cut Aatmaram’ (Gulshan Devaiah) is working unfastened within the city, identified for killing — or fairly, cleaning — souls, with merely 4 stabs of a switchblade.

Mimicking motorbike chase sequences from outdated Bollywood and over-exaggerated motion, Guns & Gulaabs additionally unfolds a revenge story, heartbreak, and a style of candy innocence by way of the eyes of three schoolmates. The collection additionally stars the late Satish Kaushik (Mr. India) because the drug lord father Ganchi, frequent Raj & DK collaborator Ashmith Kunder (The Family Man), and Pooja Gor (The Verdict – State vs Nanavati).

Guns & Gulaabs is out at present on Netflix.