Guns & Gulaabs Smacks of Retro Action-Comedy

“Is puri story ka point kya hai?”

A character asks midway in the trailer for the Netflix series “Guns & Gulaabs.

(Translation – What’s the point of this whole tale?)

Viewers will be left wondering the same by the end of the almost three-minute-long trailer. And that’s perfect because a good promotional video shouldn’t give away crucial plot points of the story!

Created by Raj & DK, the makers of the beloved series “The Family Man,” the 2023 series “Guns & Gulaabs” stars Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan, Adarsh Gourav, along with a host of familiar faces. Fans of old-school Bollywood will be thrilled with the delightful retro tone of the entire trailer, complete with big-bold-yellow font which is straight out of cult classic “Sholay.” In-fact, the plot is set in the 1990s in a fictional town called Gulaabganj, so it promises to be a pulp-fiction style nostalgic ride.

Dulquer Salmaan portrays Arjun, a family man and cop, while Rajkummar Rao plays an eccentric character who dispatches people with a ‘paana’ (Hindi for spanner) and Gulshan Devaiah is ‘4 Cut Aatmaram’, another cold-blooded gunda. The series offers a cut-throat world of guns, goons, and blood with a touch of comedy to keep the laughs coming.

The series will be available to stream on August 18 on Netflix.