Farzi

On: Amazon Prime Video

Director: Raj & DK

Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi

Rating: 3/5

I don’t know where the term ‘chocolate boy’ for a romantic hero comes from. Given that all desi boys, like girls, are born various shades of chocolate. 
That said, with age, the ideal aim for the male-lead in mainstream Bollywood is to shed that look/image, and go full-macho, if you may. For, how long can you be the lover-boy anyway? 

As you can tell with Shah Rukh Khan on the big screen (Pathaan). Likewise, Shahid Kapoor, the star most inspired by SRK. Farzi is Shahid’s debut on an OTT platform, with a caper, that’s so dramatically different from, say, his Badmaash Company (2010). He’s the brooding, muscled, quiet swindler, with a Midas touch, when it comes to reproducing paintings. Where can this talent be put to best use? Apparently, in counterfeiting currency notes.