Pratap Pai

Rating : **** Review : Plot : Badhai Ho tells the story of Jeetender Kaushik ( Gajraj Rao) who works as a TT for Indian Railways residing in Delhi's Lodhi colony with his wife Priyamvadha ( Neena Gupta) , his mother "Dad'" ( Surekha Sikri) and 2 sons Nakul, the elder one (Aayushman) & Gular , the younger one ( Shardul Rana). The family gets a shocker on the news of Priyamvadha's pregnancy. To add the entire family becomes a social embarassment amongst their friends, relatives and neighbors. This results in conflict between the parents and their sons especially Nakul who also undergoes a turmoil in his love life with his lady love Renee ( Sanya Malhotra). How the entire family undergoes ups and downs because of the arrival of new little member forms the crux of the story. Director Amit Sharma has a winner in his hands . Right from brilliant direction, tight screenplay , clapworthy dialogues and a great performance from the ensemble cast all the departments are superb . The first half breezes away with swift speed with lots of ROFL moments . The dialogues are so funny that I had a tough time to get them as there was thunderous laughter and claps from audiences in the theater . The second half is equally good and has a few moments where in your eyes will become moist. Being such a serious subject Amit Sharma tackles it with great ease by adding dollops of humor and emotions in equal dose. Coming to performance it will be very diffucult to judge who is the best as it's a terrific performance from all the cast. Gajraj Rao what an excellent performance by him . There are times when he has not uttered a word and it still evokes laughter just by looking at his expressions. Second in line is the surpemely talented Neena Gupta. Great to see her after so long time. She is just brilliant. Her chemistry with Gajraj is cute and adorable. It will be not be wrong to say the lead actors of this movie are Gajraj Rao and Neena Gupta. Surekha Sikri gets the best dialogues and she brings the house down everytime she is on screen. She will be surely loved by the audience. Fresh from the success of Andhadhun , Aayushman gives yet another powerful act. His expressions , delhi dialect are so perfect that he has become an ace in performing a Delhi ka Launda character. He brings the character of Nakul alive. Yet another success in his kitty. Sanya Malhotra has a limited screen space but she is good in whatever scenes she has and she looks very pretty. Shardul Rana is equally good . On the whole Badhaai Ho is full on entertainer for the family packed with excellent performance from the lead casts which will tickle your funny bone and make your eyes moist at same time . Surely not to be missed !