Bloody Daddy movie review: The Shahid Kapoor-starrer has all the elements of a fast-paced thriller, but despite the odd surge, it falls back into the “been there, seen that” category.
An actioner that takes place over 24 hours must, above all, go at breakneck pace. Bloody Daddy, a remake of the French film Nuit Blanche, which was adapted in Tamil as ‘Thoonga Vanam’ starring Kamal Hasan, has all the elements of a fast-paced thriller. However, despite the odd surge, it sags back into the been-there-seen-this category, which has a lot to do with its over-two-hour runtime, flattening a plot that isn’t as unexpected as it thinks it is.
A bag of cocaine worth Rs 50 crore is at risk, and a gang of cops and crooks is chasing it through Delhi and Gurugram. The film explicitly states that it takes place after the second phase of the epidemic, when things began to open up. People want to party hard again after months of forced abstinence, which, of course, leads to an increase in drug demand. The suspense of not knowing which cop is a crook propels the picture only so far, because all the indicators are obvious from the start, when an early morning shoot-out kills two drug runners and sends the two persons who collect the bag on the run.
So, which narcotics officers are working for the bad guys? Could it be Sumair (Shahid Kapoor), who receives a bullet wound in the first five minutes and nurses it throughout the film while playing buddy with his small son, who, of course, will be used as bait in no time? Or how about Samir (Rajeev Khandelwal), who continues getting strange phone calls? Or Aditi (Diana Penty), who bounces back and forth between the two, attempting to be harsh and on-point?
There is no such ambiguity among people on the other side of the law. There’s Ronit Roy, wearing a red expensive jacket and lording it over his own’seven star hotel’ den. And Sanjay Kapoor, in similar red glares, accompanied by a right-hand man who passes the sniff-and-tell as well as the loyalty test. Other miscellaneous goons regularly march around the hotel, where a big-ticket wedding is taking place and attendees are waiting for musician Badshah to up the ante.
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We, the watchers, are left waiting for the suspense to build while Sumair-Shahid goes through his paces, sporting a stylish hair cut and rotating between a leather jacket and a formal black suit. The rare instances in which Shahid appears weak and in anguish stand out, and Roy is given some scenes to work with. A number of running gags — the young lad’s demand on ‘lactose-free milk’ and ‘gluten-free bread’ creates mild amusement among his father and the mobsters alike — raise their heads and then lie back. Just like the movie.
Shahid Kapoor, Ronit Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal, Diana Penty, Sanjay Kapoor, Zeeshan Qadri, Ankur Bhatia, and Vivan Bhatena star in the film Bloody Daddy.
Ali Abbas Zafar is the director of the film Bloody Daddy.
Bloody Daddy has a two-star rating.
