Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos

Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (transl. Happy Patel: Dangerous Spy) is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action comedy film directed by Vir Das and Kavi Shastri and produced under Aamir Khan Productions. The film stars Vir Das, Mithila Palkar, Mona Singh, Sharib Hashmi and Srushti Tawade.^[3][4] The film was theatrically released on 16 January 2026. It marked the silver screen return of Imran Khan over ten years after he starred in Katti Batti (2015).

Happy Patel, the adopted son of two gay British secret agents, who aspired to follow his fathers' footsteps, and join the MI7 covert agency, but failed, soon learns that he is of Indian origin. He is assigned to Goa, on a mission, to rescue and retrieve a white woman who is being forced to work in a factory on developing a formula for a fairness cream by local donna Mama, who houses an inter-generational enmity with Happy, and is eager to settle scores.

• Vir Das as Happy Patel
  • Krishiv Bhandari as young Happy
• Mithila Palkar as Rupa
• Mona Singh as Mama
• Sharib Hashmi as Geet
• Srushti Tawade^[5] as Roxy
• Simon Feilder as Sebastian Paisley
• Benedict Garrett as Kenneth Mole
• Jemima Dunn as Mary Wilkins
• Hella Stichlmair as Aunty
• Aamir Khan as Jimmy Mario (cameo appearance)
• Imran Khan as Milind Morea (cameo appearance)^[6]
• Sanjeev Kapoor as himself (cameo appearance)
• Meiyang Chang as himself (cameo appearance)
• Ash King as himself (special appearance in song "Banda Tere Liye")
• Sumukhi Suresh as Sakhubai Patel (cameo appearance)
• Ashwin Mushran as Instructor
• Mayank Parakh as Peter
• Vishwanath Kulkarni as Shailesh

The soundtrack is composed by Vir Das, Parth Parekh, Ajay Jayanthi, Akshay, IP Singh, Shalom Benjamin, Manan Mehta, Achint Thakkar, Nirmit Shah, Kaizad Gherda, Sidd Coutto, Shalom Benjamin and Alien Chutney with the lyrics written by Vir Das, Mxrzi, Neeraj Pandey, IP Singh, Manan Mehta, Suchita Shirke and Shalom Benjamin

The film received mixed reviews from critics.

Deepa Gahlot of Rediff.com gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Happy Patel is not supposed to make sense, and doesn't even pretend to. But most of the time, it is trying too hard -- which ruins any comedy -- and the jokes fall flat. Still, the silliness is layered with such good cheer that it does get some laughs".^[7]

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 2/5 stars and said that "the film has too many ideas and jokes, tries to talk about everything at once, and as a result the comedy and emotions don’t land properly. A few performances and cameos are fun, but overall the movie feels messy and unfocused".^[8] Rahul Desai of The Hollywood Reporter India observed that "The Vir Das-starring comedy about a bumbling NRI spy in Goa is unapologetically crazy, clumsy and contagious and It is a Sparkling Comedy With No Inhibitions".^[9]

Rishabh Suri of Hindustan Times rated 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Happy Patel must have sounded terrific on paper, largely because the film never intends to take itself seriously. Every character is given a quirk. The trouble is, it plays out like that friend in the group who is blissfully unaware of how half their jokes are unfunny. But one doesn't have the heart to tell them."^[10]

Sana Farzeen of India Today gave 3.5/5 stars and says that "the film successfully breaks the macho spy stereotype, is loud, absurd and self-aware, delivers genuine laughs, and works well if you don’t expect depth—just fun".^[11]

Radhika Sharma of NDTV gave 3/5 stars and states that "the film is silly, self-aware and chaotic fun—it doesn’t always make sense, but it delivers laughs, breaks the macho spy image, and is worth watching if you enjoy absurd humour".^[12]

Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in stated that "So silly that it’s juvenile and sometimes so anarchic that it almost escapes notice, the 121-minute Happy Patel takes refuge behind its conceit. This is a film about nothing pretending to be about something."^[13]

• Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos at IMDb