If Diljit Dosanjh’s persona were a movie, I’d imagine it’d be something like this: genial, casual, comfortable with its blingy brightness, not particularly out to transform the world but impossible to resist.
Spoilers ahead…
You can read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/good-newwz-movie-review-akshay-kareena-diljit-and-kiara-star-in-a-riotous-comedy-of-cross-pollination/
Here’s one of my biggest laughs of the year, but let me first set it up for you. We are in the Mumbai apartment of the Batras — Varun (Akshay Kumar) and Deepu (Kareena Kapoor Khan) — and there are two more Batras in the living room. The latter are neighbours, who’ve moved from Chandigarh: Honey (Diljit Dosanjh) and Monika (Kiara Advani). The two couples are like chalk and chole bhature. Varun and Deepu are yuppy stereotypes, Honey and Monika are puppy stereotypes. Good Newwz paints these characters with every single cliché, and then some. Varun and Deepu’s classy home could be featured in Architectural Digest. With all the gold curlicues and sequins, Honey and Monika’s apartment looks like the love child of Marie Antoinette’s bed and Maganlal Dresswala. And then, Monika farts. Loudly.
Continued at the link above.
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Baradwaj Rangan 
rnjbond
December 31, 2019
I wish you could teach your fellow Film Companion “journalists” how to write a proper movie review… because the one Rahul Desai wrote is total garbage and doesn’t even talk about Diljit’s performance, which, as you pointed out, is the best part!
https://www.filmcompanion.in/good-newwz-movie-review-a-film-thats-not-as-modern-and-funny-as-it-thinks-it-is/
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brangan
December 31, 2019
rnjbond: But surely you know there is no ONE valid response to a film. Rahul wrote what he felt — and he is right, too.
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nikkie1602
December 31, 2019
@brangan: Rangan sir, just curious…do you discuss films with Rahul Desai? How do those discussions go? Both of you have a deep love for cinema…Rahul just is more jaded and cynical yet strangely hopeful like most of us millenials…
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Voldemort
December 31, 2019
Loved that bit in the trailer where Kareena’s child looks just like Diljit and says “Hello ji”. It was such a lmfao moment.
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Jai
December 31, 2019
Saw the film yesterday and then rushed to read your review, BR 🙂
I guess my experience of the film was somewhere in between your estimation and Rahul Desai’s. The first half was a laugh riot, jokes kept flowing and for the most part, the comic timing was spot on.
The second half lost a bit of sheen with some unnecessary theatrics thrown in, but Diljit really stole the show here. As you said, he imbues his character with so much honest-to-earth goodness, the jokes aimed at his characters’ lack of coolth and sophistication make you laugh with him and not at him. Kiara was pretty good as well, funnily enough in the emotional scenes she did several notches better than Akshay! Akshay continues to show a tremendous improvement in his dialogue delivery, and his witty jokes were mostly on point. But in the couple of emotional breaking down scenes he had, most of us were cringing. 😕
My issues with the second half were the prevalence of a couple of (lengthy) dialogues, where Kareena’s character castigates Akshay for not feeling “paternal emotions” towards the baby she was carrying. For the life of me, I could not quite figure out just why he would be expected to be fond of an unborn baby which was biologically only his wife’s, and was actually biologically the child of Diljit’s character. I mean, would Kareena’s character be expected to feel “maternal” towards the unborn baby Kiara’s character was carrying, merely because her husband was the biological father??
It’s different were both parents choose to go in for adoption, or to opt for a sperm donor. As “Good Newzz” a tad over-emphatically asserts in 2 separate scenes (one in fact voiced by Kiara’s character) – “apna khoon apna hi hota hai”. So why should that emotion be different for a man?
Also, did it make any sense that none of the four ever complain about the clinic and getting Adil Husain and Tisca Chopra’s characters’ licensed revoked? There is a casual scene where Kareena’s character says that a legal battle would drag on and bring bad publicity to themselves, but it’s mind bogglingly obtuse to think they would go back to the same clinic for gestational care, which had put them in this mess in the first place.
I know, I know. A film like this requires some suspension of disbelief. But this aspect in the second half was not asking for suspension, it was asking for complete abandonment of any understanding of human nature, especially of parents expecting their first baby. 😁
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Jai
December 31, 2019
Yikes, spell check while typing on a mobile is hell!!
In my comment above, the penultimate para should have started with “Also, did it make any sense that none of the four ever complain about the clinic and get Adil Husain and Tisca Chopra’s characters’ licenses revoked?”
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Tina
December 31, 2019
Nice movie, rather enjoyable and had be in splits in many parts. I find this review just as appropriately pleasant!
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rsylviana
January 2, 2020
Went in with minimal expectations but came out quite happy with the whole experience . The climax especially with Kareena’s delivery sequence was a scream !
@Jai – I had similar issues with Kareena’s monologue too. For me , it wasn’t a big deal that Akshay doesn’t have any paternal feelings towards the baby she was carrying because he had already made his feelings about a baby (his biological or whatever) well before she becomes pregnant but it was a bigger issue that Akshay didn’t seem to have the slightest bit of concern that his pregnant wife has to be well and healthy. I mean, we aren’t shown even a single scene where he is helping her out during her pregnancy. It wouldn’t have stuck out that much if we weren’t shown how he seemed to step up and take care of her during the 16-day window they have during the IVF procedure. It is one thing that your husband doesn’t care about the child you are carrying , but him not caring about your health too at that time is unsettling to say the least. I was expecting that Kareena would be more worried about this rather than go on a whole gender battle trajectory which frankly seemed to be too much for this lightweight movie.
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ravenus1
March 14, 2020
Fuck Bhoot Pt 1, THIS was a terrifying experience. I was entirely sympathizing with and fearing for Akshay Kumar’s character:
a) Bullied by wife (KKK) into trying for a child, when it’s quite apparent that he’s completely uninterested and her desire for a child (that is ‘apna khoon’) comes purely on account of societal pressure.
b) Completely evil fertility doctor (Tisca Chopra) guilt-trips said wife into having the baby after a sperm mix-up, when the couple(s) should have sued the bejezus out of the smooth-talking swindlers (and I bet they don’t even refund them).
c) Gets stalked by the world’s most psychotic couple, I was beginning to think this would be a sequel to Rosemary’s Baby.
d) When he insists on an abortion, said bullying wife gives him a mile long lecture about the ardors of pregnancy and how he is a selfish jerk to not want the child (if she was so okay with the child not being ‘apna khoon’, they could have easily adopted and not gone through all this hell).
e) With all this, it’s no wonder that the guy who goes around telling people to “phoo phoo chod” is seen sucking on all manner of drags in the film
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