Gulp, it’s golf. So there’s this poor guy who sells chuddies on the street who belatedly discovers that he could be a champ at the rich man’s sport.
That alone is enough to not take “Freaky Ali” and its makers too seriously. This is an unabashedly populist film that makes no attempt to actually understand the sport at the centre of it
Amy Jackson plays the token love interest and a motley cast including Seema Biswas, Arif Basra and Arbaaz Khan throw sporadically funny one-liners at each other. Nawazuddin Siddiqui tries his best to be a convincing enough underdog who has his day, and is a good foil to Khan, who plays his bumbling friend.
Under the flimsy cover of a sports film, “Freaky Ali” is just another Bollywood ‘good guy versus bad guy’ movie. Every character is a caricature and every plot point already seen in a thousand other films. This one doesn’t quite “putt” it.