GOOD NEWWZ - If you have seen the trailers you know the story. It's basically a comedy of errors where Sperms of two males were mixed up because both of them have a similar surname BATRA and implanted inside the wrong wife (of the other BATRA in respective cases) who both were going through an In vitro fertilisation process.
Now it's a comedy film , where both the couple keeps on fighting with each other because of different reasons. But in between those funny moments the movie gave me glimpse of good emotional moments where both the couples stop fighting and tries to understand the situation of the other and those glimpse made me realize that in between these funny moments there lies a better movie where the same mixed up situation would have happened and instead of fighting both the couples would have understand the whole situation more practically which would have resulted in a scenario where all the four characters have gone through a period of 9 month pregnancy helping each other in a very unique situation. Now that movie although would have be less funny but a much much more mature , emotional and realistic film and I would have totally loved it.
But that's not gonna happen so let's talk about what we have got.
Like I said the emotional moments of the film were better than the funny moments. The biggest reason of that is that even if the actual jokes were really great they were very rarely organic to the situation. Most of the time a special situation was created to inject some good comedy so that the movie doesn't go out of steam on jokes. But if you really think about those injected scenes you would realise that those scenes doesn't contribute anything to the story as a whole. So what happens was that even if you laugh watching those scenes (because the dialogues were good) but after the scene finishes you realise that why exactly that scene was in the film. But that's just me. Any other person may feel that why the hell any comedy scene need to be justified with the story if it makes u laugh.
Now the acting wqs great throughout. From a Selfish Akshay to Sensible Kareena to an over-the-top Kiara and even more over-the-top (and sometimes doing little overacting) Diljit , everyone is pretty great. But if you ask to pick one then Kareena totally steals the show. And it was great to she her in a full fledged role where she gets the best scenes of the film.
The direction was not perfect. You can feel that the director is a debutant. He certainly knows how to direct a particuler scene but didn't have an eye to understand what scene was needed in the movie and which was not. Also the transition between scenes were not that great , rathers felt like singularly made small sequences which doesn't compliment the story as a whole.
Most of the songs were not needed in the film. Except MAANA DIL which perfectly conveys the mood of the situation.
One of the sideline problem I had with the film was that movie was not able to decide whether it wanted to be of old conservative thinking or new progressive thinking. Like the whole movie have a mood of progressive thinking but two times in the movie one of the character asks why the other character havnt thought about ADOPTION and the other character replies by saying that APNA KHOON TO APNA KHOON hota hei. Same conservative points have been made about ABORTIONS where a doctor show a woman to think before selecting the option of Abortion by showing her the heart of the child in that woman's belly so that she will get emotional and not select the option of Abortion. This whole mood of the movie felt a little conflicted to me. I was not able to understand what side exactly the movie was taking.
But as a whole I would say it was a fun time if not a great time. And as long as I have read the reviews of DABANG 3 which I have not seen , I think for the holiday season , Good Newwz is a better time pass for movie lovers.
6.9/10
by ANuP APu KuMaR
Now it's a comedy film , where both the couple keeps on fighting with each other because of different reasons. But in between those funny moments the movie gave me glimpse of good emotional moments where both the couples stop fighting and tries to understand the situation of the other and those glimpse made me realize that in between these funny moments there lies a better movie where the same mixed up situation would have happened and instead of fighting both the couples would have understand the whole situation more practically which would have resulted in a scenario where all the four characters have gone through a period of 9 month pregnancy helping each other in a very unique situation. Now that movie although would have be less funny but a much much more mature , emotional and realistic film and I would have totally loved it.
But that's not gonna happen so let's talk about what we have got.
Like I said the emotional moments of the film were better than the funny moments. The biggest reason of that is that even if the actual jokes were really great they were very rarely organic to the situation. Most of the time a special situation was created to inject some good comedy so that the movie doesn't go out of steam on jokes. But if you really think about those injected scenes you would realise that those scenes doesn't contribute anything to the story as a whole. So what happens was that even if you laugh watching those scenes (because the dialogues were good) but after the scene finishes you realise that why exactly that scene was in the film. But that's just me. Any other person may feel that why the hell any comedy scene need to be justified with the story if it makes u laugh.
Now the acting wqs great throughout. From a Selfish Akshay to Sensible Kareena to an over-the-top Kiara and even more over-the-top (and sometimes doing little overacting) Diljit , everyone is pretty great. But if you ask to pick one then Kareena totally steals the show. And it was great to she her in a full fledged role where she gets the best scenes of the film.
The direction was not perfect. You can feel that the director is a debutant. He certainly knows how to direct a particuler scene but didn't have an eye to understand what scene was needed in the movie and which was not. Also the transition between scenes were not that great , rathers felt like singularly made small sequences which doesn't compliment the story as a whole.
Most of the songs were not needed in the film. Except MAANA DIL which perfectly conveys the mood of the situation.
One of the sideline problem I had with the film was that movie was not able to decide whether it wanted to be of old conservative thinking or new progressive thinking. Like the whole movie have a mood of progressive thinking but two times in the movie one of the character asks why the other character havnt thought about ADOPTION and the other character replies by saying that APNA KHOON TO APNA KHOON hota hei. Same conservative points have been made about ABORTIONS where a doctor show a woman to think before selecting the option of Abortion by showing her the heart of the child in that woman's belly so that she will get emotional and not select the option of Abortion. This whole mood of the movie felt a little conflicted to me. I was not able to understand what side exactly the movie was taking.
But as a whole I would say it was a fun time if not a great time. And as long as I have read the reviews of DABANG 3 which I have not seen , I think for the holiday season , Good Newwz is a better time pass for movie lovers.
6.9/10
by ANuP APu KuMaR