The Later’s Baby!
Badhai ho
As
they say Love like Wine gets better with Age, so should the sex! And Bam! We have rocking pregnant parents. The
wonderful journey of this pregnancy is full of giggles, laughs and winks. There
are no uncomfortable complications or scenes throughout the film, which makes
it one of the best family time entertainment. Needless to say, there is subtle
satire as well as hilarious bits of laughter. The society’s unacceptability of
couples having sex, who have grown up children is tastefully ridiculed.
Badhai Ho is about lives disheveled over the
pregnancy of a middle-class, middle-aged couple Jeetu (Gajraj Rao) his wife
Priyamvada (Neena Gupta) living in in Lodhi Colony in Delhi with old aged
typical mother (Surekha Sikri) and two grown up sons one appearing his board
exams Gullar (Shardul Rana) and the other Nakul (Ayushmann Khurrana) working in
an IT company having a girlfriend Renee (Sanya Malhotra) from a Delhi socialite
widowed mother. The film unfolds his perspective to having pregnant Parents.
The
acid-tongued mother in-law is the best acted part along with Neena Gupta and
Gajraj Rao that do not deliver lecture lines but stay true to their character
of this couple that has sheer chemistry even at middle age of life and can find
love and solace in each other’s company. Two people who understand each other
perfectly and can fit into each other’s life so well is a rarity in itself. The
makers have chalked this relationship delicately and perfectly. Director Amit
Sharma skillfully makes these complex characters and their entwined relationships
understandable and relatable to the audience. That is a job well done!
It
has everything that a typical Indian family mind set has with a mother in-law doting
her son, picking up claims of incompetence in the daughter in-law. Two children
who will feel embarrassed at the thought of their parents having sex with judgmental
comments of the world to deal with. Add to this the drama at the wedding having
the relatives with their short and bitter tongues give us the perfect masala
for laughter.
The
middle-class dysfunctional family with set core values ends up a perfect
functional family at the end. The topic of late pregnancy and intimacy between
middle-aged couples could not have been handled any better than this and when they
come with messages in satire and comedy blended should not be missed.
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