Director: Abhijith Mahesh
Cast: Diganth, Yogesh, Achyuth Kumar, Siri Ravikumar, Prakash Thumminad, and Balaji Manohar
Available in: Theatres
Duration: 145 minutes
In 1997, a film starring Shivarajkumar titled Ammavra Ganda explored the gender roles in society by flipping them in a marriage. However, the film was criticised for making fun of feminism and ultimately conforming to the status quo, in the garb of giving a social message. Twenty-seven years later, Abhijith Mahesh’s Bachelor Party does a similar thing, albeit with no promise of a social message.
The film sets up Diganth Manchale’s Santhosh as an unhappy husband (ironic because his name is Santhosh, get it?) whose wife, Sandhya loves the maid more than him. He is afraid to speak up about the lack of attention he gets from her as she will shout at him or invoke ‘patriarchy and misogyny’ the moment he goes against her. He cannot come home from office even a minute late for he’d be taken to task by his wife. He is literally called an ‘Ammavra Ganda’ (Henpecked husband) by a character in the film
Things change when he manages to go to a friend’s bachelor party after Sandhya leaves for her mother’s house. At the party, he gets drunk and takes his childhood friend Maddy (played by Yogi) and their former PT teacher (Achyuth Kumar) to Thailand. Shenanigans ensue there as they get embroiled in a gang war between a Mangalorean immigrant and an African crime boss.