‘Faster Fene’ Review: Watch it for the sheer adventure

Film: Faster Fene
Directed by: Aditya Sarpotdar
Starring: Amey Wagh, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Parna Pethe, Girish Kulkarni, Siddharth Jadhav and Shubham More

What it’s about:

One can’t help but be skeptical about going to watch a film that is based/inspired by a comic book. Because Jagga Jasoos still has a fresh recall. Like JJ, Faster Fene is a film about Banesh Fene. Faster Fene (Amey Wagh) is a smart kid with great detective skills and a love for adventure. Based on a series and short stories by BR Bhagwat, Faster Fene is almost like the desi version of TinTin. In the film, while appearing for medical entrance test, Fene befriends a fellow mate who commits suicide two hours later. He is convinced it is a murder and sets out to solve it and comes across an education scam worth crores. Riding along with him on this journey are the homeless kid Bhu Bhu (Shubham More), Aboli (Parna Pethe) and Ajoba (Dilip Prabhavalkar). They all soon realise that he is messing around with very powerful people but he refuses to back down, despite threats to his life and those close to him. How Fene manages to bring down the evil Appa (Girish Kulkarni), with practically no …read more