Vibe

Film: VIBE (2026)

Review by Dr. Usman Latif Khawaja, MB, MRCP UK; Ireland; STA London Royal College of Physicians.

Rating: ⭐☆☆☆☆ 1 out of 5 stars

### A Clumsy, Screeching Slapstick Disaster of Pure Espionage Hokum

### A RUDDERLESS, MONOTONOUS ACCIDENTAL-SPY FARCE

### The Collapse of Action-Comedy Geometry into Vulgar Tropes, Dated Pacing, and Zinta's Acting Deficit

Cast: Kunal Kemmu (Hardik), Sparsh Shrivastava (Bugs), Preity Zinta (Madam H), Vanshika Dhir (Kareena), Yashpal Sharma (Agent), Dinesh Lal Yadav "Nirahua" (Agent)

Writer & Director: Kunal Kemmu

Producer: Drongo Films / Amazon MGM Studios India

Commercially Released: 18 September 2026
Language: Hindi / Urdu

Attempting to watch Vibe (2026) on a laptop is a thoroughly punishing exercise, as the film functions as a total camp, slapstick disaster spy movie that completely tests the viewer's patience.

Written and directed by Kunal Kemmu as a self-indulgent action-comedy vehicle, the plot focuses on a serially incompetent man fresh out of drug rehab who accidentally stumbles into a national security threat alongside his earnest friend.

They are subsequently recruited by a secret intelligence agency to track a super-strength serum and stop a rogue terror cell.

While the first act attempts to generate some fast-paced situational comedy, the entire narrative architecture completely falls apart in the second half, turning into a serious, overlong mission weighed down by cheap WhatsApp-style jokes and tedious narrative drag.

The central visual disaster of the film is Preity Zinta, who returns to the screen only to prove she is completely awful after her recent failures in Batwara 1947.

Portraying the bossy agency head Madam H—a character lazily modeled on Hollywood's traditional spy stereotypes—she delivers a stiff performance written entirely without flair.

She wanders through the scenes completely devoid of her past screen presence, looking entirely out of place during the stilted combat choreography.

In a display of pure technical laziness, her action sequences rely on glaringly obvious body doubles hidden behind an ugly blonde wig, breaking every basic rule of visual verisimilitude.

Her acting is stilted, uninspired, and significantly worse than the raw, untalented new actors of the modern era, who