Goodbye (गुडबाय)

​"Goodbye (गुडबाय)"

Watched Hindi movie "Goodbye (गुडबाय)". 

This film is directed by Vikas Bahl. Written by Vikas Bahl. Produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor and others. The film stars Amitabh Bacchan, Nina Gupta, Rashmika Mandanna, Eli AvrRam, Shivin Narang, Arun Bali, Pavail Gulati, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sahil Mehta, Abhishek Khan. Cinematography by Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti. Music by Amit Trivedi. The film runs for about 2 hour 21 minutes and was released in Oct 2022. I watched it on Netflix on 3rd Dec 2022 with Aditi. 

Rashmika wins her first case. She parties. Hangover. Multiple missed calls from father. Mother dead. She travels back. So do her other siblings. Amitabh is angry at everyone. 

Rashmika is full of anger. She’s the rebel. She and Amitabh keep fighting. Her Hindi has South Indian accent. 

Director probably wanted to show that Nina is the thread that binds this family and with her death the family is in disarray and how they learn to live without her. But rather than that director attempts at black comedy using death. Pathetic. The movie is full of final rites. Rather than using the death and final rites as anchor and flashback to take the story ahead, he uses final rites as the main event. 

Audience don’t understand where the movie is going and probably even the director doesn’t. Audience can’t decipher what message director wants to give, what sort of story director wants to tell. The movie goes in rounds without going anywhere. 

It was so bad that we abandoned the movie. It’s rare for me to abandon any movie. Unsurprisingly, this movie turned out to be a dud on box office. 

Positives: Nothing. 

Negatives: Everything. 

Don’t watch even if someone pays you to do so.