Preview – Future Toh Bright Hai Ji

This film is funny, heartwarming and touching. Small- town residents with big dreams are descending to Mumbai and facing hordes of struggle. The makers seemed inspired from Hrishikesh Mukherjee, they have done decent job, but only at places. Overall, the execution, script and most importantly, humour is plain average.

Ajay Kumar (Aamir Bashir) is an assistant writer of a daily soap and is married to Sonia Singh (Sonal Sehgal), a small-time television actress who plays the role of a character twice her actual age. Both are unhappy with the way their career is progressing and are also not content with their rented place. One fine day, they manage to meet a world renowned astrologer who predicts that their life is going to change in the next 7 days. The same day, Ajay meets Verma (Vipin Sharma), politician-turned-builder-turned-producer who assigns him the task of writing the script for a film that will launch his son. However, he is supposed to submit the script in a week or else…

The next day, Sonal fights with their landlord and pressurizes Ajay to move to an upmarket housing society. While Ajay gets busy in adhering to his wife’s wishes, he doesn’t get time and chance to script for Varma. On the other hand, getting possession of their new house becomes problematic with each passing day. Will they come out of the mess soon? Will Ajay be able to script for Varma in time?

The initial rented house of Ajay-Sonia looks straight out of real life, even if that makes production values seem sub-standard. A similar setting can be seen in the other house of the couple, the temple, the society office etc. Although film is breezy but there’s not much of humour in most part of the film although there was scope for it. The script was decent but direction isn’t extra-ordinary, which also is a spoiler. On the positive side, few scenes here and there leave a mark. Performances are lovely and the animation is very wittily incorporated in the film.

The star of the film is undoubtedly Sonal Sehgal. She looks immensely cute and delivers a terrific performance. Aamir Bashir does a fabulous job but most importantly, proves that he can effectively play the leading actor in a film.

Sanjay Amar’s story was relatable and had trappings of an entertainer. it’s a clean film with no unnecessary adult jokes or mandatory item songs. Watch out for Sonal Sehgal, a powerhouse of talent!