Daddy Cool

A hilarious piece of comedy, though a remake one but correctly acted throughout. Of all the movies that I’ve seen with him acting, this seemed to be Aftab’s best performance. Javed Jaffrey and Chunkey Pandey also acted well. Sunil Shetty, though, didn’t seem to be a right choice for the role and Ashish Choudhury also had been underutilized but Rajpal Jadav’s short but important role adds significantly to the comic.

The drama is based on Goa and all the characters have been portrayed as Christians. Steven, a resident of Goa is preparing for the final speech in honour of his father at the later’s funeral. But this seemed not to be approved even by his wife as all are expecting Brian, his brother, a famous novelist, to be the speaker. This irritates Steven as though he had always taken up the responsibility of their parents but Brian had always been held at a superior level by the relatives and friends.

In the meantime Steve’s cousin Maria was on her way with her boyfriend Michael. On the way they picked up Maria’s brother Harry, a dealer of drugs who had currently been designing a hallucinogenic drug inside Relaxo capsules. Now at Harry’s house, as Michael was increasingly panicking at the thought of confronting Maria’s father at the funeral, Maria gave him a Relaxo to lighten his nerves. But as the true character of the drug unfolded Michael started to feel its effect along the way to Steven’s.

Meanwhile, Karlos, Steven’s best friend was also on his way to the funeral accompanied by his wife, Jenny who always distrusted her husband’s fidelity. Along with them was Steven’s cynical Uncle Murphy whom age and illness has made more and more vile tongued and for no particular reason, seemed to pick on Karlos only. To make matters further worse for Karlos, one of his friends, Jim, travelling with them, joined in the ragging too. Infact worse was still to happen as a budding model Ayesha was on her way to meet her would be producer named Karlos and mistook Jenny’s husband as him. Thus the confused Karlos seemed more at risk of losing his loyalty to Jenny when a comic twist made matters straight and Ayesha’s entry seemed not so worse in reality for him.

There was another character Andrew, who claimed to Stevens to be his late father’s lover and demanded money from both the brothers threatening to expose the relation there and then.

Thus all the characters combined and the sequence of events will leave you roaring in laughter but at the same time will leave you wondering for the reason why funeral was chosen as the theme for the movie and also the justification for its name. The direction by K. Murli Mohan Rao was good though T. Surendra Reddy’s cinematography could have been much better. The music had been kept at minimum that suited the picture well.