Posted on January 28, 2022
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brangan
January 28, 2022
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Sri Prabhuram
January 28, 2022
It’s tweets like this that really make my day.
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Sri Prabhuram
January 28, 2022
Also, why do I see a still of Hridayam on this page?
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Aman Basha
January 28, 2022
Yayy, when’s the Priyadarshan remake starring Akshay Kumar, Kartik Aaryan releasing?
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SorenKierky
January 28, 2022
Wow, quite surprised to hear this from BR. Didn’t work a bit for me, I mean I went with low expectations because the trailer was just bad, many if not most of the jokes didn’t land, the performance didn’t work (especially Prithviraj and Soubin, save for a few scenes), and it’s just overall bland af. I mean, forget everything (I absolutely beg to differ esp. wrt the performances, Mohanlal and Lalu Alex were fine is the best I can say here, and Prithviraj just can’t handle comedy) – it was a huge miss when it came to being the “light-hearted comedy” it tried to be.
Also as a side note: I wonder if sometimes the language barrier is a thing for BR when it comes to Malayalam comedy? For instance, I loved Thanneer Mathan Dinangal because the humor was just spot on + the performances were great, and so on, and it didn’t work out nearly as well for BR. That’s a movie many won’t even bother digging any deeper because it was a riot. Bro Daddy on the other hand though…
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Senthil S
January 28, 2022
Good to see a review echoing my thoughts. I feel like a lot of people are not the reviewing the movie for what it is. Saw something about Bro Daddy celebrating elitism and pro-life conservative politics. You have to see what genre a movie is operating in and try to analyze how well it worked in that space.
Thought this by far Mohanlal’s best performance after his Botox debacle. It’s not a difficult role at all, but he seemed natural and comfortable for the first time in years. I loved him especially in the scene where his mother finds out about the baby.
As you mentioned, I loved how the movie never makes Lalu Alex a clown. The last conversation with Mohanlal and Raju was sweet.
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SorenKierky
January 28, 2022
Also, for me personally, the pro-life stuff was super annoying. As a “light” movie, I guess we’re not expected to dig deep, but the preachy doctor stuff (although tbf, maybe that is what would happen IRL I guess), but with the multiple scenes, esp with that “echo” scene, it was just annoying. And so was the “machoness” of the leading men for impregnating them being some sort of running joke. UGH.
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Aman Basha
January 28, 2022
Addendum: I see a role tailor made for Paresh Rawal (heroine’s father). Maybe Mohanlal will produce it and stem the losses of Marakkar, the prestige lost is a different story.
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Nithin
January 28, 2022
Very nice review. Mohanlal was superb. Also Prithviraj and Lalu Alex too. Prithvi is really a promising director.
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Yajiv
January 29, 2022
@Aman Basha: Fantastic job casting. Feel like Kiara Advani should take Kalyani’s role. She and Kartik are already starring in the sequel to another Priyan Hindi remake anyway.
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Sreehari
January 29, 2022
At a very basic level of criticism, by which I mean simple-minded plot-centric criticism, one is forced to ask: does Mohanlal’s character do enough to even deserve the movie’s title? You try answering that, and you would arrive at the sad truth that accompanies movies like this one.
I foresee a time when cinema would be evaluated using headers like “10 films that were triumphs of marketing.” This one, then, would surely make it to that list. Everything in the movie is a marketing choice — right from the way the outtakes have been “planned and shot,” to the inclusion of fine actors like Jaffer Idukki and Joji Mundakkayam as mere screen-fillers.
Also, here’s the big irony I chanced upon just this morning. Despite the animosity that seemingly exists between Dileep and Prithviraj, both these actors are essentially bound by the belief that film-making in the modern world is mostly cant and marketing. If Prithvi were to keep aside their corrosive past for just some time, he would discover in Dileep a true brother, a comrade, a kindred spirit.
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Aman Basha
January 29, 2022
@Yajiv: No, no, no, Kiara’s already done a movie with Akshay. In fact Akshay’s going to cover all the bases from Kareena to Manushi Chillar in the next year 🙂 This casting is more serious business than I imagined 🙂
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vijay
January 29, 2022
Soren, I dont know about this film but in general I agree comedy is difficult to get across language/cultural barriers..For instance, no amount of precise subtitling will help somebody outside of TN fully get Goundamani’s style of insult humour and sarcasm, the voice intonations etc. which are quite unique to the region he hails from..
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ravenus1
January 29, 2022
His tweet sounds like a threat, like he’s going to work on his Muay Thai and elbow-knee-bash you up if you slam the sequel 😀
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Yajiv
January 29, 2022
@Aman Basha: Wow, Akshay is like Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused. He gets older, his heroines stay the same age.
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Madan
January 29, 2022
Yajiv: ROFLMAO at this comment. I guess all the Canada Dry Akki helps himself to has some effect.
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Aman Basha
January 29, 2022
@Yajiiv: I don’t think it’s anything conscious, he also played Sara’s dead father with greys in Atrangi Re. If you’re making four movies a year, you have to mix up the heroines for the sake of freshness.
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Alex John
January 30, 2022
This movie worked fine for me, except for Soubin’s track and Prithviraj’s acting. My god, Prithvi was horrible in this film with tons of squirm-worthy breathing sounds, which almost made me check out of the film. If somebody hasn’t watched an unprocessed Prithviraj without a director to trim his performance, this is your movie to watch (squirm alert, of course). Prithviraj MUST not act in his own movies.
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Nithin
January 31, 2022
Don’t think Prithvi was poor at all in doing comedy in this movie as some commenters have been trying here to say. Yes he may not be the most natural of actors in doing comedy, but in this film he did his part wonderfully well. He felt perfectly at ease (both as a director and as an actor) with the sit-com/rom-com nature of this movie. He brought a great screen presence to his character which indeed elevated the movie to a higher level (not saying he did it alone, Mohanlal and Lalu Alex were even more brilliant. Meena, Kalyani and Mallika Sukumaran too were good).
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gaya3arunn
January 31, 2022
Medocre movie at the best. No rhyme and reason why they are hiding their 3 + years of relationship from their parents. I don’t understand the significance of pastel colour used throughout the film. Anyone got it. Does directors think showing toilet scenes and constipation problems make a film artsy or cool. (It worked only in pikoo)The settings are generic. Nothing to show malayali tradition/culture and absolutely no characterization. Comedy track is utterly dispensable. Prithviraj can hands down win a Razzie award.
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GK
February 1, 2022
I cannot believe this worked for BR! Equally surprised you didn’t like Lucifer. I didn’t enjoy either, but the director in Prithviraj does deserve praise for both. Lalu Alex was the best thing in/about Bro Daddy, and while the whole world heaves a sigh of relief for ‘the return of an at ease Mohanlal’, I beg to differ — has no one really paid any attention??? Yes, there’s chemistry aplenty, but it’s not the kind some of us enjoy; but the father-son duo certainly shine. And what a waste of Jaffer Idukki and Soubin Shaheer!
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Ashwin Kumar
February 1, 2022
Totally agree with BR. Was a pleasant and relaxing watch for me while recuperating from covid. Nice one from the multi talented Prithviraj. Enjoyed the cameo from Soubin.
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