‘Bloody Daddy’ Movie Review: Shahid Kapoor’s action film lacks steam

Shahid Kapoor in a scene from ‘Bloody Daddy’

come for Shahid KapoorStop for Ronit Roy in the velvet suit and say, “I’m not a bad guy.” I only sell drugs. Roy’s Kisch – later Sanjay Kapoor’s – kept me awake and entertained bloody daddy (Out on JioCinema). Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, the film oscillates between action and comedy, while deliberately avoiding the tag of ‘action comedy’. The film wants to be taken seriously, even to be praised as a violent Hindi action offering, and it is rubbish. I enjoyed the laughs – a character is funny simply because he speaks almost exclusively in English – but admitting bloody daddy A great question to take at face value.

In post-pandemic Delhi, anti-narcotics cop Sumair (Shahid Kapoor) and his partner (Zeeshan Quadri) attack a car and seize Rs. Cocaine worth 50 crores. Their interception enrages Sikandar (Roy), a Gurugram kingpin and hotelier. Over the phone, he informs Sumair that he has kidnapped his son, and asks him to return the bag of drugs in exchange for the boy. Sumair arrives at Hotel Emerald Atlantis that night. He has a wound to nurse, and a gameplan; He will save his son without returning the drugs.

The premise of a lone wolf father fighting for his child’s release is as old as action movies themselves. bloody daddy is a remake of the 2011 French film Sleepless nights ,Sleepless nights) – Kamal Haasan previously adapted it in 2015 thunga vanam However, as was clear from trailerIt desires a separate franchise: john wick, Zafar is so eager to appropriate the visual grammar of the Keanu Reeves/Chad Stahelski franchise that he forgets something important: Gurugram is not New York. The Emerald Atlantis – full of wedding fun and actually shot in Abu Dhabi – lacks the danger and mystique of the Continental Hotel. Werder still has a sequence where Sumire is plodding through a strobe of harsh disco lights john wick-Fashion, sharp heel turn and bhangra to hide himself in the crowd.

Sumer is in dire need of her own identity as an action hero, and the film struggles to give her one. Initially, I felt that Zafar was postponing the big action set-piece to the second half of the film to build suspense. In truth, he was delaying the inevitable. The fight scenes, though increasingly brutal, contain little originality or invention (2022’s an action hero, while essentially a satire of the genre, was a league above). The idea of ​​the film’s ‘realistic action’ is to improvise the characters with everyday objects. Thus, when Sumire fights in the gaming arcade, she chooses a striking club; When the setting changes to the kitchen, he switches to the rolling pin and chopping board. This goes for a toss in the climax when he magically procures a flamethrower (presumably to burn down the Badshah guest track that plays).

Shahid – agile, agile, thin and sharp-jawed – is a better tool in Zafar’s hands than someone like Salman Khan. Kapoor fights with a mean streak, even though his opponents, minus perhaps only Rajeev Khandelwal, are uninspired bags of blood and wind. What ultimately impresses Kapoor’s performance is the film’s drift towards emotion. Sumire is portrayed as a deadly fighter with a heart of gold. Every time he sees his son, the music gets emotional (even in the middle of an action scene). He helps two Nepalese immigrants get hired – after racially profiling them – and a scene where he schools a woman’s pushy date is like a little olive branch. , which extends to opponents. Kabir Singh,

Sanjay Kapoor, playing a crime boss who wears red sunglasses at night like he’s late from a 3-D show, Ronit Roy has a lot of fun grunting and cursing. Diana Penty played the role of Aditi, an anti-corruption officer; She is the only major (and fully fleshed out) female character in sight. Some interesting ideas. Delhi’s Connaught Place – not an unusual location for a Hindi film – is shot in the spooky hours of the early morning. Other famous locations (Majnu-Ka-Tilla, Palika Bazaar) are baked into the dialogue, earning laughs from recognition. Sumer was addressed as ‘brother’ by his son; In fact, they seem more like siblings than a traditional father-son duo.

all the time i’ve been looking for Shankar RamanName in credit list; Both Gurgaon (2017) and Love Hostel (2022) seems to have a profound impact on this film. Raman’s films are bolder, grittier examples of Haryana noir. It is a witchcraft sub-genre marked by wild characters, uncontrollable brutality and pitch-black humour. bloody daddy One night stands are best with this terrain. It cannot fathom settling down.

Bloody Daddy is currently streaming on JioCinema