Happy Patel Khatarnaak Jasoos marks Vir Das` directorial debut. But a movie, let alone a farce, is another beast altogether. The dialogue humour is chiefly over Happy screwing up his Hindi. Scenes range from death by qawwali to a restaurant with one table. None of it lands

When Happy Patel, a blustering failure of a spy, discovers he is Indian, he volunteers for a dangerous, high-profile rescue mission in Goa to return to his homeland, unaware that a Don has been baying for his blood. The film transitions between being a gangster actioner, a romantic comedy, and an emotional tale of an NRI finding his roots