Badhaai Ho revolves around an old couple becoming parents again. The comedy-drama features Ayushmann as the son of an elderly couple who find out that they would be turning parents for the third time.
Ayushmann Khurrana says his forthcoming film Badhaai Ho is his cleanest film so far as earlier he has worked in movies around some taboo subjects of society.
Besides Ayushmann, Badhaai Ho also stars Sanya Mahotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao and Sheeba Chaddha in key roles.
The film is directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma and produced by Vineet Jain, Aleya Sen, Hemant Bhandari and Priti Sahani under the banner of Junglee Pictures and Chrome Pictures. It will release on October 18.
The movie starts with a hilarious Housie sequence in which we see a frustrated Nakul (Ayushmann Khurrana) filtering the numbers out for the ladies of his area. Akshat Ghildial’s dialogues are hilarious from the word go. Without taking much time, there come one liners which will make you scream with laughter.
Makers don’t take much time to come to the main topic of Mrs Kaushik, mother of Nakul, getting impregnated at an old age. Then comes the confrontational scene in which Jeetu (Gajraj Rao) confesses about the child to his mother played by Surekha Sikri.
Surekha Sikri, being the legend she is, brings the house down with her performance. Abhishek Arora, better known for his work in Varun Dhawan’s October, has done a brilliant job with the background score in Badhaai Ho. The dialogues are the clear winner of the first half of the film; however the expressions of all the characters are very well played with.
The film has lot of potential and reason to watch. It teaches you the lesson of RESPECT.
I will definitely give it 4*out of 5.
Namastey England 2*
Namaste England, which is set on the same lines of 2007 hit Namastey London, gives you a deja vu feeling of having seen it all before, you know what’s going to happen next, yet you refuse to give up on it. The Vipul Shah directed romantic drama featuring Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra evokes same exact sentiments.
Playing on tunes of any regular Bollywood potboiler, Namaste England is love at first sight for the hero (Arjun Kapoor) who is convinced that he has met the woman (Parineeti Chopra) of his dreams in a snap. Without much difficulty, Paramveer (Arjun) and Jaspreet (Parineeti) get married. Jaspreet, who is otherwise an ambitious girl succumbs to traditional viewpoint of her orthodox father that a women should be limited to her kids and family. Param, being a supportive husband fights hard to let her live a life of her choice. However, as a twist in fate Jaspreet makes her way to London leaving Param behind in shock. Will their marriage survive?
The biggest shortcoming of this film is that it is neither a compelling tearjerker nor an epic contemporary romance, This Arjun Kapoor-Parineeti Chopra starrer is definitely not the film to celebrate modern love. In the time where Bollywood is opening up to experiments to bring out the best of cinema, this movie is still stuck in the 19th century to show hopeless romantic romeos with over-the-top sentiments which is anything but real life! This movie constantly tries to be progressive, but instead of actually being progressive it reinforces the same old idea of Hindi romantic film heroine with ostentatious modernity.
Arjun is sincere, but there is nothing fresh about his goofy, gentle-giant guy avatar that we have seen before. Parineeti, who looks lovely here, but lacks gravitas. The chemistry between these two is decent though. They seem like a natural fit together and though you have seen similar girl-meets-regular boy love stories before, the actors breathe life into a jaded story.
The direction of the movie is vintage and it is devoid of any novelty or freshness. The film is easy on eyes thanks to the beautiful cinematography. The music is not good.
I would rather watch akshays namaste london over NAMASTEY ENGLAND.
