Bloody Daddy Review: Too many dads but insufficient blood!
Movie: Bloody Daddy
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal, Ankur Bhatia, Vivan Bhathena, Zeishan Quadri, Mukesh Bhatt, Vikram Mehra, Sartaaj Kakkamore
UnfoldedNow.Com Rating: 3/5
Language: Hindi
Genre: Action
Duration: 2h 1min
Director: Ali Abbas Zafar
Writer: Ali Abbas Zafar, Aditya Basu
Cinematography: Marcin Laskawiec
Music: Badshah, Aditya Dev, Julius Packiam, Anuj Garg
Producer: Jyoti Deshpande, Sunir Khetarpal, Gaurav Bose, Himanshu Kishan, Mehra Ali, Abbas Zafar
Production: Jio Studios, AAZ Films, Offside Entertainment
Certificate: 16+
Bloody Daddy Review
Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bloody Daddy is an underwhelming and uninspired movie that fails in every way possible. In their club, drug lord Sikander Choudhary and NCB officer Sumair Azad, played by Shahid Kapoor and Ronit Bose Roy respectively, meet to swap a bag of cocaine for the drug lord’s abducted adolescent son. However, things don’t go according to plan, and a “bloody” brawl results.
Together with his coworker Jaggi, played by Zeishan Quadri, Sumair busts drug dealers and confiscates cocaine worth 50 crore rupees. Sumair saves his kid by retrieving the bag from the NCB office, but he is unaware that he is being shortchanged at several NCB levels. He eventually gets into altercations with senior Sameer Singh, played by Rajeev Khandelwal, and colleague Aditi Rawat, played by Diana Penty.
The movie starts well but quickly descends into a dull series of events that don’t provide any exciting moments. The co-written action thriller, which was shot over the course of 36 days during the Covid-19 pandemic, begins with a number of cautionary statements about the first lockdown, the second wave’s fatalities and job losses, the rise in crime before the third wave, and everyone getting acclimated to the new normal.
With the exception of a few flimsy sequences in which characters are disguised, guests at a well-known wedding are put to the test, and crooks discuss how the epidemic has ruined their hotel and drug operation, Zafar’s idea does not, however, transfer into the real script.
The supporting cast’s performance is underwhelming since each actor is forced to play the role of a sidekick and is not given the chance to show off their acting skills to the fullest. Ronit Roy, who is delightful to watch on film, isn’t sure if she wants to be a good or terrible cop. In action scenes, Rajeev Khandelwal struggles and never comes off as believable enough. After playing a stylized villain, Sanjay Kapoor appears just to go without a trace. Despite having too little to do, Ankur Bhatia and Vivaan Bhatena do admirably as the antagonists.
Diana Penty’s struggle to assert herself in this very male-dominated cast isn’t all that horrible, really. Atharva, the young child who portrays Shahid’s on-screen son, is actually pretty talented and novel.
Overall, Bloody Daddy succumbs to its own clichés and stereotypes, yet it can keep you interested just for the pleasure of watching Shahid do action and stunts on television. Jio Cinemas is now streaming the movie.
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