While Mrs Undercover is a decently time-pass spy comedy, it suffers from mediocre writing. But Radhika Apte is the best of both worlds as a housewife-cum-spy and her comic timing is great too.
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Rating: 2.5/5
Director: Anushree Mehta
Cast: Radhika Apte, Sumeet Vyas, Rajesh Sharma, Shaheb Chatterjee
Runtime: 1h 47 m
Storyline:
Durga (Radhika Apte) is a secret agent whose cover is being a housewife. After 10 years of being dormant, she has assimilated into the routine drudgery of household work and taking care of her frustratingly patriarchal husband.
She is brought back into the field by Special Force Chief Rangeela (Rajesh Sharma) to take down a notorious serial killer (Sumeet Vyas). This misogynist psychopath goes by the alias ‘The Common Man’ and only targets strong, independent women. Can Durga hunt him down before he does something big?
Watch Mrs Undercover as the seemingly meek-looking, clumsy, inconspicuous housewife turns into a badass…
What Do We Think:
This spy comedy is decently entertaining in bits and pieces but still it is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Mrs Undercover is very in-your-face in its messaging about women’s empowerment.
It takes too long to set up its premise and get to the good spy stuff. Sumeet Vyas’s villain had the potential to be more menacing and well-developed but seems almost cartoonishly evil. The plot is undercooked and amateurish. The ‘housewife-struggling-to-get-back-into-spy-mode’ concept could have been executed more smoothly.
No complaints performance-wise – Radhika excels in her role as the bumbling housewife and spy and singlehandedly carries the film. Her comic timing is pretty spot-on too and she looks badass in the action sequences. Rajesh Sharma brings the chuckles in this feeble comedy. Sumeet Vyas is good in the introductory scene but is done dirty by the one-dimensional, underwritten character.
While Mrs Undercover is passably time pass, it would’ve benefitted from a more tightly-packed plot.
Hit Or Miss:
Streaming on Zee5. Watch if you’re in the mood for a timepass comedy, otherwise, it’s a miss.
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