Goodbye Movie Review

Goodbye is the story of a dysfunctional family. Tara (Rashmika Mandanna) is a lawyer who lives in with her boyfriend Mudassar (Shivan Narang). She wins her first case and hence goes out to party. Her mother Gayatri (Neena Gupta) calls and messages but Tara ignores it. The next day, her father Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) calls and that's when she learns that Gayatri has passed away. She rushes to her hometown, Chandigarh to be with Harish. Harish has three more children - Karan (Pavail Gulati), Nakul and an adopted son, Angad. All of them are away. Karan and Angad also book the first available flight to Chandigarh. Nakul, meanwhile, is unreachable. Tara is the first one to reach. She and Harish don’t see eye to eye and both clash over the funeral ceremonies. Harish also gets upset with Karan and Angad as he feels that they don't seem moved by their mother's demise. Harish's behaviour leads to fights in the house. But all of them have no choice. They have to stay together under one roof for a few days. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

Vikas Bahl's story is relatable and well-intentioned. Most of us will be able to relate to certain goings-on and moments. Vikas Bahl's screenplay, however, is not well fleshed out. While it’s strong in the first half, the writing goes haywire in the second half. The dialogues are witty and save certain scenes too.

Vikas Bahl's direction is average. This is more in the zone of his acclaimed film QUEEN as GOODBYE is also a slice-of-life film about a character who gets invaluable life lessons after going through a hellish experience. The first half will leave viewers teary-eyed. The comedy is well-infused into the narrative and doesn’t seem out of place. The tracks of the neighbourhood aunties and P P Singh (Ashish Vidyarthi) are funny. They are very relatable as we have all come across such people at funerals. The scene where the family members imagine Gayatri is talking to them is sweet and well edited. The Haridwar track in the second half, involving Pandit ji (Sunil Grover) is also entertaining

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