The film relies on vicky tactics to pull it out of the fire
First the good news: bad news Not all bad. But is that enough for a movie that wants to be a laugh riot? no Moments in the overlong film that sparkle a touch are few and far between to fully offset the feedback that isn’t there.
Directed by Anand Tiwari and written by Ishita Maitra and Tarun Dudeja, bad news More blurry than wavy. It is a stillborn comedy about a father and mother with twins in her womb as a result of conceiving twice in the same ovulation cycle.
As the audience, thanks to the trailer, is aware of all this and there are no real surprises in the film until it leads to its conclusion which is meant to be a way out of complications for all concerned.
Forget the lack of combustible chemistry between Vicky Kaushal and Tripti Dimri, the film struggles to find the right combination of relationship biology and plot physics.
A paternity test and a gynak’s prognosis spell double trouble for the woman as well as the rom-com that triggers a triangular entanglement with a twist that clearly represents a first for Hindi cinema. But once the rare event is explained and revealed, everything else that unfolds is largely predictable.
The main concept of the film – hetero-paternal superfecundation – comes from the 2016 American television movie Double Mummy, which, in addition, tried to address the serious issue of date rape. the rest bad news A joyful, joyful melange.
It throws rajma and burritos, chicken feet and soy into a shiny pan and stirs it so vigorously that, when hurly-burlyed, it’s hard to tell what the end product was meant to be. The culinary analogy is inevitable – all three main characters are in the food business. Saloni Bagga (Tripti Dimri) is a Tex-Mex chef who wants to earn a Meraki star – recognition of excellence in the service industry – for the outlet she works for.
Akhil Chadha (Vicky Kaushal) whose father runs a printing shop in Delhi’s Karol Bagh. He’s a guy who doesn’t take no for an answer and weaves his way into Saloni’s life while constantly berating his no-mo (no mobile) phobia.
He’s not a pretty specimen by the looks of it but the audience is constantly encouraged to warm to his cavalier ways, which stems in part from the overwhelming attention showered on him by his overbearing mother (Shiva Chadha).
Gurveer Singh Pannu (Amy Virk) is a Mussoorie hotelier who owns a Gujarati restaurant to atone for a loved one he lost because he failed to give up his love for chicken for her.
bad newsDharma Productions’ follow-up to the even wackier (if not weirder) Good News (2019), which hinges on some in-vitro fertilization gone wrong, relies on Vicky’s tricks to pull it out of the fire. The lead actor plays the role of West Delhi’s mama’s boy as a reckless and rash person when a bit of temper could stand him in good stead.
Amy Virk, playing the much-dressed man, is the slow and steady one who serves as the ideal foil to the mercurial Akhil Chadha, whose screen presence is accompanied by sub-tonal vaddas (the greatest of all) on the soundtrack. .
As for Tripti Dimri, she seems intent on hiding the sea of emotions swirling within and around her behind an opaque mask as the confused character struggles to assert her right to decide what’s best for her and her unborn children.
The two men are at each other’s throats for the most part but learn the hard way that they can only play second fiddle no matter what.
The film doesn’t reach this point in the narrative until it’s well into its second half when a weather-worn aunt (Neha Dhupia) gives the trio four options and, after a while, the doctor (Faisal Rashid) makes an alarming one. Revelation about fetal status.
The film begins with Ananya Panday setting up a meeting with Saloni Bagga The actor is gearing up for a film on the latter’s unusual life. The female protagonist narrates her story – a simple framing device for a film that wants to be anything but simple.
bad news Rushes through the first act – a whirlwind romance that turns into a hasty wedding and a European honeymoon – before it goes through an extended middle section that tries too hard to be funny only to discover that momentum is an illusory pursuit.
Its ultimate stretch bad newsWhere the drollery of the early parts conveys and continues many emotional outpourings and profound messages about the limits of masculinity and the power of motherhood. It doesn’t end until one of the two boys responsible for the predicament the lady finds herself in invokes her altruistic instincts.
The first post-interval sequence has Ananya Pandey munching on popcorn. Even as Tripti Dimri’s character serves more delicacies to the guests, the camera never misses the tub of popcorn.
This is probably the director’s way bad news It doesn’t want to be more than that – a light snack, part sweet, part sour, instead of a wholesome meal with a wide range of flavors. It’s no problem. Who mind a little fun, quarrel and flippancy? It’s average, single-note dessert that lacks genuine crackle bad news Not that film.
