Vicky Donor..Of Dilli, sperm donation and Annu Kapoor!

Rarely comes by a movie with oodles of humour and a subtle message. Same goes for Vicky Donor. Something that starts with a WHO statement on sperm donors, stating that several families are childless due to lack of sperm donors and ends with a couple walking off from an orphanage with an adopted child, is a very discreet way of promoting the idea of adoption, of respectful sperm donation.

And everything in between (Save parts of the second half) are absolutely hilarious, stuffed with stereotypes and jibes at two ethnicities.

Pretty straight forward plot. Vicky Arora (Ayushmaan), the true blue Punjabi Delhi boy seems to attract a lot of unwarranted attention from Annu Kapoor (The owner of an Infertility clinic and sperm bank), who believes Vicky has quality sperm and must donate to save the world (and the business).Vicky resists but relents and once the money starts coming in, becomes quite a regular. Family doesn't know, girlfriend/wife doesn't know and when the truth comes out, all emotional hell breaks loose. All's well in the end however as Annu Kapoor finds out, takes blame and tries to fix all the damage he's caused in his own queer way.

The high point of the movie for me, is in the treatment of the subject of sperm donation. There is absolutely no hesitation in showing how people actually react to the idea. How dates can end up with one tight slap, how wives can just pack up and leave, how mothers think it's a dirty profession and how the donor himself might have reacted when the idea is first thrown at him. Select soft serious ideas such as the legality of the issue, the treatment of the money and the gifts is all carefully wrapped and comically delivered to ensure you understand and remember the message but laugh your heart out. You can't really ever forget Annu Kapoor's obsession with sperm and how every conversation and every sentence has to have a connection to it, his gesture to indicate sperm movement and the hallmark dialogues such as "Eh kaam legal hai, aaj se hi nahi.. Mahabharat ki time se..jananiyon ke jaab baache nai hote the toh rishi muniyon ko bulwa lete the.. baba aulad nai hai... babe ne ki kitta, tathastu kitta....... Hogiya"..Or even "Vadiya vadiya kha te vadiya vadiya phen, load na le asar pade ga sperm pe.."

You almost can't help but sympathise with Annu Kapoor at some point for how he diligently chases Vicky, acting as part-time chauffer, part-time bill payer at restaurant, to convince him to donate sperm.

Annu Kapoor has got to be the most impressive character in the movie, with his seemingly natural comic action in the movie, definitely closely followed by Dolly and Beeji, Vicky's mum and grandmom. The two women come across as typical endearing Punjabi women who will fight over 'Dolly's attache' and Vicky's lack of seriousness, but will bond over their late night regular bar setups agreeing on one thing that Punjabis are the world's best race.

All in all, a must watch, purely for the fun you can have at the cost of blatantly laughing at Punjabi and Bengali stereotypes and the side of Delhi you get to see. Parts of the second half dragging making you believe it's a hindi movie after all, but definitely one you mustn't miss.