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julieacharyaray 504 days ago

For a director who gave a fantastic movie like Queen, Goodbye was a very badly made one. Inspite of great actors like Amitabh and Neena Gupta, the movie floundered. The motive for the movie was good but it was just very poorly made. Rashmika’s Hindi accent was awfully mismatched, Amitabh’s constant anger was not understandable , the sons’ characters were not consistent, and some of the characters just came and went without any explanation -like the guy who was on of the pall bearers (who the uncle didn’t like). When Amitabh was talking to the ashes on the bank of Ganga, the monologue was so unnecessarily long! And the character of the colorful priest -he had a purpose that just never solidified. Nakul’s character came out of the blue and just wrapped up everything like a child telling a story. I was disappointed. 

Rohit 63 512 days ago

Okay Very Good Movie

sandy reddy 2 512 days ago

Loved the movie...emotions..values related movie ..must watch

Shrikant Wad 5 515 days ago

The father should have been more worried about her daughter living in a Livein relationship with Muddarssar than she not picking up her mother's call.<br/>Hindu rituals are important and no one should make fun of them.

Vishnu R U 26 515 days ago

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'Goodbye' movie review: This tear-jerker will make you call your family

It becomes easier to deal with death if you are a believer. Sure, the body of your loved one decomposes, becomes one with the earth, and maybe that’s it, nothing more. It’s like a flame getting extinguished, it didn’t know how it ignited and can’t point to the exact moment it snuffed out. Nobody knows what happens after we die. Do we become souls that find a home in other beings (crows?) or are we just reduced to manure?

In a scene in Vikas Bahl’s latest offering 'Goodbye,' Sunil Grover, playing a tech-savvy pandit, tells Amitabh Bachchan’s family the reason behind putting ashes in the Ganga. It is the mythical story of King Shantanu and his queen. How she took a vow from him before marriage: to not ask questions about whatever she does. How she bears a son and drowns him in the Ganga -- and seven after that-- to release them from the human cycle of life and death. “This is bullshit,” says Rashmika Mandanna, who plays Tara, the opinionated black sheep of the family, masking her grief in anger after her mother’s sudden death. “It is all because ashes have phosphate and it is good to mix it in the river, for better irrigation of crops.”

In a later sequence, the pandit takes Tara into a corner and assures her that what she said was correct. “But your story is boring. Has no beginning, middle or climax,” he says. “Your mother is gone now and all she has left you are her stories. What logic do you find in that?” Maybe that’s what we become after we die, memories for those who loved us, stories to be told to others.

'Goodbye' is the story of a family, dealing with the mother's demise. There is Amitabh Bachchan, the family patriarch, whose lips quiver when he is unable to sustain an argument. Pavail Gulati plays the dutiful, workaholic son, Karan, whose AirPods are plugged in even when he is taking his mother’s body to the crematorium. Elli Avram is Karan’s foreign wife Lisa, trying to be part of the family. There is also Sahil Mehta and Rashmika as Pavail’s siblings. The centre of all these diverse characters, like a bark holding the branches, is Neena Gupta’s Gayatri.

Sample this scene when the family is sitting around the body, the night before the cremation. Gayatri, like a spirit or a memory, comes from inside and sits with them. Everybody is in their character. Pavail’s Karan is sitting with his laptop, Rashmika’s Tara has a grumpy look on her face and Amitabh looks defeated. Gayatri looks at all of them, smiles and asks Karan, “Mr Workaholic, got leave from your job?” To Tara: “I asked you to wish Karan on his wedding anniversary, did you do? Now you’ll have to remember wishing everyone.” Finally to Amitabh, “You didn’t get any better photo of me to put?” There is a smiling picture of her, at the head of the body, a glass of red wine in hand. “Remember how much I drank that night?” It is such a heartwarming scene that you can’t help but smile, while your eyes well up.

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The film is laced with beautiful nuanced scenes that take its viewers on an emotional roller-coaster. You cry and then laugh out loud, you smile in appreciation and then feel like calling your loved ones. Even in grim situations, Vikas Bahl’s writing finds scenes which make you laugh while you hate yourself for giggling. There is a sequence where Ashish Vidyarthi, as the funeral know-it-all uncle (“Don’t teach me, I have done it a thousand times”) asks the family to change the direction in which the body is placed. The viewers gasp and chuckle as the family tries to determine where north and south lie while managing to hold the body in place. Dark humour at its finest.

It’s commendable how each character has a back story and is ably handled by the actors playing them. Rashmika as Tara shows defiance in the little gesture of removing her jacket when Amitabh looks at her. She speaks a lot through her eyes. Even the house help, just before leaving for cremation, rushes back and turns off all the switches and locks the pet dog “Stupid” inside. Such a minor scene conveys how much the family depends on her. Elli Avram is perfectly cast as the foreign wife. She steals the show in a scene where she realizes, with teary eyes, that the Hindu meal doesn’t contain chicken. Amitabh as the piqued (read: ‘Pikued’), mumbling-under-his-breath father, is outstanding. In times like these, Sunil Grover as a holy man unites (“God is ours as we are his, how can he be upset with us?”). He is so effortlessly charming, it should be illegal. And then there is Neena Gupta, spreading serenity in every frame she appears in, like a mother’s calming embrace.

What the film deftly handles is the subject of death. Everybody learns from it in their own, unique way. Some let go of their hair (and their ego) others their rigidity and stubbornness. But I guess one can never get over the loss of losing a loved one, especially a parent. You might learn to live with death. Pavail Gulati’s Karan, in a scene, mindlessly calls out for his mother after a Golgappa vendor comes at the door. He keeps calling out for her and the truth sinks in with every ‘Maa’. Now stop crying stupid, it’s just a film.

Director: Vikas Bahl

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna, Neena Gupta, Pavail Gulati, Sunil Grover

Ratings: 4/5 stars

(This story originally appeared on Cinema Express)

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Goodbye review: Amitabh Bachchan and Rashmika Mandanna can't save insensitive family drama

Goodbye review: talk of performances, amitabh bachchan takes the cake for his sheer sincerity, conviction and blending emotions so well in each scene. rashmika, in her debut hindi outing is decent and that's about it..

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna, Neena Gupta, Pavail Gulati, Sahil Mehra, Elli AvrRam

Director: Vikas Bahl

The matriarch of a family, Gayatri Bhalla (Neena Gupta) has suddenly died. As Gayatri's family and husband Harish Bhalla ( Amitabh Bachchan ) wait for their turn at the cremation ground, her neighbourhood ladies are busy thinking what to name the WhatsApp group they're making in the memory of the deceased. 'Gone Gayatri Gone, Lonely Harish ji, Harish ji needs us' are some of the suggestions said out loud before they reach a consensus to call it 'Chandigarh Bubblies'. Why? Because Gayatri called the group by this name and her memories should live on. Wait. There's more. The so-called group of friends pose for a smiling selfie, after all a new WhatsApp group calls for a new profile picture. Well, this is just 0.1% of the insensitivity and absurdity writer-director Vikas Bahl throws at us in this emotional rollercoaster of a funeral drama called Goodbye. Pardon me for saying funeral and drama in the same breath. But as you watch the story unfold in Goodbye, it really is a confused tale wanting to say so much but is so stuck in its flaws that it never rises beyond a funeral. (Also Read | Goodbye song Jaikal Mahakal: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna are heartbroken )

In fact, for the entire first half, I kept asking myself, what is it that Bahl is trying to show though his story and characters? Is Goodbye the story of a grief-stricken dysfunctional family? Or a rebel daughter who refuses to believe in the outdated and orthodox rituals and traditions. Is it a story about four siblings who are settled in different parts of the world and come together to say the last goodbye to their dead mother? Or a dilemma between faith and science. Is it a satire on the death rituals that are prevalent in the society? Or fake tear-shedding relatives. The last two aspects have been beautifully shown in last year's films Ram Prasad ki Tehrvi and Pagglait and those, I must say, served a good benchmark. Unfortunately, Goodbye just doesn't leave that impact or doesn't even get close to it.

Soon after the news of Gayatri's death reaches her children, they all make their way back home in Chandigarh. Tara ( Rashmika Mandanna ), a lawyer who's won her first case, is drowned in guilt for not taking her mother's last call or replying to her message. Karan (Pavail Gulati) flies down from US with spouse Daisy (Elli AvrRam) who orders a ‘hindu’ meal because she 'loves the spicy Indian chicken'. Karan is a workoholic who can't do without his laptop and ear pods even while he's giving a shoulder to his dead mother's body. Angad (Sahil Mehta) is Gayatri's favourite and while taking a flight from Dubai, he doesn't miss ordering butter chicken and butter galic naan during his hotel layover, before his father takes him on a guilt trip over a call, for indulging in party food while he has lost his mother. Angad does order khichdi afterwards! There's another son, Nakul (Abhishekh Khan), who is out on a trekking expedition and realises about this loss much later than the rest of the family.

Amid all this, Harish, his Labrador named 'Stupid' and a house help are busy discussing the chores to be performed on Gayatri's funeral and last rites. Goodbye is a comedy-drama at its core but somehow things don't add up each time a joke is made while showing death and grief. For instance, Harish blindly follows his friend PP's (Ashish Vidyarthi) instructions and lets Gayatri's body be moved here and there to be kept in a particular direction. The comedy around the deceased often comes across in bad taste and atrocious.

There are several emotionally moving and heart-warming scenes in Goodbye, making you tear up every now and then, but the screenplay doesn't let you remain engrossed in them for too long as the misplaced humour chimes in way too often than needed. And mind you, it's not even clever comedy that will trigger laugh. Indeed, it's not a cakewalk to show a sensitive loss like death and infuse humour in it. But instead of being subtle, Goodbye does it a bit too in your face.

Picture this: Angad and Daisy have an unapologetic 'sambhog' after cremating their mother. When the father asks, he says, 'We are doing this for mom. She wanted grandkids.' Don't know if Bahl was trying to give any message here or be plain bizarre.

Talk of performances, Amitabh Bachchan takes the cake for his sheer sincerity, conviction and blending emotions so well in each scene. Rashmika, in her debut Hindi outing is decent and that's about it. Her dialogue delivery doesn't seem forced though her expressions could have been way better in varied situations. Pavail, Sahil and Elli are good in their parts and do justice to the screentime they get. Neena Gupta lights up the screen each time she appears in flashback sequences. Her chemistry with Amitabh Bachchan is endearing. There's also Sunil Grover as the priest who performs last rites. He lifts the storyline from a boring and super dragged first half to a somewhat interesting beginning to the second half. It's interesting to see how he becomes the force to make Tara believe in faith over science.

Goodbye is loaded with emotions but they don't linger on for too long. It's the comedy that takes over the major part and flaws become too evident to overlook. Still, watch it for a slice of life drama.

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Goodbye Movie Review: This tear-jerker will make you call your family

Rating: ( 4 / 5).

It becomes easier to deal with death if you are a believer. Sure, the body of your loved one decomposes, becomes one with the earth, and maybe that’s it, nothing more. It’s like a flame getting extinguished, it didn’t know how it ignited and can’t point to the exact moment it snuffed out. Nobody knows what happens after we die. Do we become souls that find a home in other beings (crows?) or are we just reduced to manure? In a scene in Vikas Bahl’s latest offering Goodbye , Sunil Grover, playing a tech-savvy pandit, tells Amitabh Bachchan’s family the reason behind putting ashes in the Ganga. It is the mythical story of King Shantanu and his queen. How she took a vow from him before marriage: to not ask questions about whatever she does. How she bears a son and drowns him in the Ganga -- and seven after that-- to release them from the human cycle of life and death. “This is bullshit,” says Rashmika Mandanna, who plays Tara, the opinionated black sheep of the family, masking her grief in anger after her mother’s sudden death. “It is all because ashes have phosphate and it is good to mix it in the river, for better irrigation of crops.”

Director: Vikas Bahl

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Neena Gupta, Rashmika Mandanna, Pavail Gulati, Sunil Grover

In a later sequence, the pandit takes Tara into a corner and assures her that what she said was correct. “But your story is boring. Has no beginning, middle, or climax,” he says. “Your mother is gone now and all she has left you are her stories. What logic do you find in that?” Maybe that’s what we become after we die, memories for those who loved us, stories to be told to others.

Goodbye is the story of a family, dealing with the mother's demise. There is Amitabh Bachchan, the family patriarch, whose lips quiver when he is unable to sustain an argument. Pavail Gulati plays the dutiful, workaholic son, Karan, whose AirPods are plugged in even when he is taking his mother’s body to the crematorium. Elli AvrRam is Karan’s foreign wife Lisa, trying to be part of the family. There is also Sahil Mehta and Rashmika as Pavail’s siblings. The centre of all these diverse characters, like a bark holding the branches, is Neena Gupta’s Gayatri. Sample this scene when the family is sitting around the body, the night before the cremation. Gayatri, like a spirit or a memory, comes from inside and sits with them. Everybody is in their character. Pavail’s Karan is seated with his laptop, Rashmika’s Tara has a grumpy look on her face and Amitabh looks defeated. Gayatri looks at all of them, smiles and asks Karan, “Mr. Workaholic, got leave from your job?” To Tara: “I asked you to wish Karan on his wedding anniversary, did you do? Now you’ll have to remember wishing everyone.” Finally to Amitabh, “You didn’t get any better photo of me to put?” There is a smiling picture of her, at the head of the body, a glass of red wine in hand. “Remember how much I drank that night?” It is such a heartwarming scene that you can’t help but smile, while your eyes well up.

The film is laced with beautiful and nuanced scenes that take its viewers on an emotional roller-coaster. You cry and then laugh out loud, you smile in appreciation, and then feel like calling your loved ones. Even in grim situations, Vikas Bahl’s writing finds scenes that make you laugh while you hate yourself for giggling. There is a sequence where Ashish Vidyarthi, as the funeral know-it-all uncle (“Don’t teach me, I have done it a thousand times”) asks the family to change the direction in which the body is placed. The viewers gasp and chuckle as the family tries to determine where north and south lie while managing to hold the body in place. Dark humour at its finest.

It’s commendable how each character has a back story and is ably handled by the actors playing them. Rashmika as Tara shows defiance in the little gesture of removing her jacket when Amitabh looks at her. She speaks a lot through her eyes. Even the house help, just before leaving for cremation, rushes back and turns off all the switches and locks the pet dog “Stupid” inside. Such a minor scene conveys how much the family depends on her. Elli AvrRam is perfectly cast as the foreign wife. She steals the show in a scene where she realises, with teary eyes, that the Hindu meal doesn’t contain chicken. Amitabh as the piqued (read: ‘Pikued’), mumbling-under-his-breath father, is outstanding. In times like these, Sunil Grover as a holy man (“God is ours as we are his, how can he be upset with us?”) is so effortlessly charming, it should be illegal. And then there is Neena Gupta, spreading serenity in every frame she appears in, like a mother’s calming embrace.

What the film deftly handles is the subject of death. Everybody learns from it in their own, unique way. Some let go of their hair (and their ego) others their rigidity and stubbornness. But I guess one can never get over the loss of losing a loved one, especially a parent. You might learn to live with death. Pavail Gulati’s Karan, in a scene, mindlessly calls out for his mother after a golgappa vendor comes at the door. He keeps calling out for her and the truth sinks in with every ‘Maa’. Stop crying stupid, it’s just a film.

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Goodbye movie review: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna's heartwarming tale will take you on emotional ride

Rashmika Mandanna makes an impeccable Bollywood debut in Amitabh Bachchan, Neena Gupta and Pavail Gulati starrer Goodbye.

Language: Hindi

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna, Neena Gupta, Pavail Gulati, Sunil Grover, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sahil Mehta, Elli AvrRam, Abhishekh Khan

Director: Vikas Bahl

Star rating: 3.5/5

Believe it or not, it’s a natural human behaviour that a person who takes the utmost care and closest to you, will always be taken for granted. And yes, majority of time, these people are our mothers. Well, philosophically we often say that one should always communicate and convey their feelings as time is very uncertain and can make you regret if that person goes far away. But honestly, how many of us have implemented that?

Well, director Vikas Bahl ’s Goodbye brings out that aspect in the most wonderful way on the celluloid but that’s not the only core value of the film. The emotional drama is a heartwarming journey of Harish and Gayatri (played by Amitabh Bachchan and Neena Gupta ) and their kids played by Rashmika Mandanna , Pavail Gulati, Sahil Mehta and Abhishekh Khan.

The untimely demise of Gayatri gives a big blow to Harish and kids but as they go to perform rituals post her last rites, we see the spiritual-awakening process of the family. Vikas Bahl deserves applause for not wasting the time in character built-up and diving into the plot right from the first frame. The way he showcased the realism in the aftermath of a funeral will evoke various kinds of emotions in you.

The emotional roller-coaster will make you smile, laugh and cry with every character making a special place in our hearts. The film deserves a special mention for the beautiful montages, which showed us the emotional and wonderful relationship of Harish and Gayatri.

Talking about the performances, Amitabh Bachchan’s supreme act as Harish will definitely remind teenagers and people who are in 20s and early 30s about their father’s protective yet argumentative behaviour. The megastar evokes emotion brilliantly and leaves us awestruck. Rashmika Mandanna as Tara shines in Goodbye . The actress gets into the skin of this complex character, which is definitely relevant to the current generation. Neena Gupta’s presence and aura is magical. Whenever she is on the screen there is a huge smile on your face.

Talking about the supporting cast, everyone including Pavail Gulati, Ashish Vidyarthi, Elli AvrRam, Sahil Mehta and Abhishekh Khan have played their parts exceptionally well. A special mention to Sunil Grover who steals the show in his cheerful cameo and gives some great life lessons in the quirkiest yet memorable way.

Goodbye is a family treat, which is not to be missed.

Goodbye releases on 7th October in cinemas near you

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Vikas bahl’s family drama stars amitabh bachchan, neena gupta, rashmika mandanna and pavail gulati..

Vikas Bahl’s new movie has two kinds of long goodbyes. One of them is the direct result of his inability to end a scene when he should. The other flows from the film’s highlight: its ability to capture the lasting anguish that results from the demise of a family member.

Is it really over after the funeral? Goodbye , which Bahl has also written, is possibly the first Hindi film since Covid-19 made its appearance to examine the shock of unanticipated death. Despite a scattershot narrative, tonal inconsistency and poorly sketched characters, Goodbye gives a solid measure of the inchoate, aching and often rage-filled feelings that constitute bereavement.

Gayatri (Neena Gupta) dies suddenly and too early for her husband Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) and her four adult children. Each of them reacts in different ways.

Harish retreats into the comfort of religious rituals. Tara (Rashmika Mandanna) lashes out at these very ceremonies, describing them as meaningless and obscurantist. Karan (Pavail Gulati), who arrives with his American wife Daisy (Elli AvrRam), conducts a business meeting in the middle of the cremation. Angad (Sahil Mehta) stress-eats. Nakul (Abhishek Khan) is unreachable.

The Chandigarh-based version of the British comedy Death at a Funeral attempts to graft black humour onto the very serious business of mourning. As Gayatri waits to be transported to the crematorium, neighbours (led by a hilarious Divya Seth) gossip while Harish’s friend (Ashish Vidyarthi) tries to take over the proceedings,

There are homilies on the meaning of life and death (delivered by Sunil Grover’s Bohemian priest) and explanations for the religious meaning of the rituals. It appears that no one in Gayatri’s family has ever been to a funeral, let alone encountered any form of death. Do we, in 2022, need to be told what a crow that visits a corpse signifies? Or why ashes are immersed in the Ganga?

The hectoring tone, loudest when Harish lectures away on the importance of following tradition, is as distracting as the off-putting comedy track. Bahl’s short attention span ensures that minor characters like the housemaid Delna (Payal Thapa) and Tara’s boyfriend Mudassar (Shivin Narang) are cursorily explored. Besides, it is never clear why Tara is cross with Harish, or why Karan is self-serving to the extent of appearing obnoxious.

Beyond the contrived squabbling and lame jokes is a poignant film about holding on and letting go. In the moments in which Gayatri returns in flashbacks, Harish remembers their love story, Tara regrets not returning her mother’s phone calls, and Karan revisits a fond childhood memory, Goodbye justifiably sets off the tear glands. Buried in the unearned runtime of 144 minutes is a shorter, more moving, account of the many shades of grief.

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• October 6, 2022
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Film : Goodbye

Director : Vikas Bahl

Star Cas t: Amitabh Bachchan, Neena Gupta, Rashmika Mandanna, Pavail Gulati, Sunil Grover, Sahil Mehta, Elli AvrRam.

Bollywood Bubble rating : 4/5 stars

Goodbye Movie Review 

That one last call, that one last hug, that one last meeting, we all want that last ‘Goodbye’ with our loved ones, before they leave this world for their humble abode. The movie Goodbye, directed and written by Vikas Bahl, is a perfect blend of that; an amalgamation of how a family processes through the death of a loved one and life after that. The beautifully woven plot, the well-executed screenplay not only keeps you engrossed throughout the movie but also leaves you in surprise with the fact of how the director-writer plays with your emotions, with a bout of humour. Why, I’d say that? You’ll know!

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Ahead of the movie screening, the scene at the cinema hall was strangely chaotic. Everyone was waiting for the movie to start, friends meeting friends, colleagues interacting, so on and so forth. The movie is about to begin and everyone is in their seats. The first scene opens with Rashmika Mandanna (Tara Bhalla), playing a young girl, who according to her father Harish Bhalla (Amitabh Bachchan) enjoys to party whenever something calls for a celebration. She is constantly being pinged by her parents. However, she fails to receive any phone calls. In such a situation, the battery of her mobile phone also runs off. Cut to- The Next morning.

Tara Bhalla wakes up to the sound of the door bell. A bar waiter is at her doorstep, with her mobile phone, that she left at the bar. In a very expected turn of events, Tara gets a shocking news about home, as shown in the trailer. A heart-shattering news that she did not expect during early hours of the day. Her mother, Gayatri Bhalla (Neena Gupta) is no more. And, her father, Harish Bhalla (Amitabh Bachchan) has tried his best to contact his daughter throughout the night.

Here, Amitabh Bachchan plays the role of a father (Harish Bhalla) who is not so pleased with the modern-day lifestyle of his children. He is constantly at a war of words with them. While the family drama continues, the movie picks pace when Tara Bhalla travels her way back home.

And, Vikas Bahl’s funeral drama unfolds from there on. The theatre is in drop silence throughout the first half. When I say everyone, every person in the room was hooked on to the screen. And, one would only laugh at a funny scene. But, what added to the experience was the tears flowing in the room. When the interval kicked in, I walked through the crowd to step out and grab some popcorn. What surprisingly moved my heart was watching teary-eyed faces in a room full of strangers.

Despite Gayatri Bhalla not being a loved one, one could relate with the situation that every member of the Bhalla family was in. A sense of connection was easily built in the first half. And, the director made sure of that, with his perfectly entwined plot.

Believe me when I say this, the first half builds it so much for you, you are left wondering what’s next? Not only because Goodbye is a fresh, content-driven script, but also because, you are laughing, weeping, and experiencing all sorts of emotions. And, while my expectations went quite out of the window, wondering how the director would manage the second half, let me tell you, oh, he did it quite amazingly!

A funeral drama which highlights the situation that the Bhalla family undergoes after the sudden and untimely death of a very important family member, Gayatri Bhalla, a mother to four and wife to Harish Bhalla. The plot revolves around how her husband, Harish Bhalla tries to connect with their kids, who are living their separate lives, to inform them about the death of their mother.

Star Performances :

Amitabh Bachchan plays the role of Harish Bhalla, father of Rashmika, Pavail, Sahil and others. He is the husband of Gayatri Bhalla (Neena Gupta). Big B plays the stubborn father, who is constantly at a war of words with his children. Or either, he is taunting them about their way of living. Sr Bachchan slips into his role of Harish Bhalla quite effortlessly and keeps you connected with him. He brings forward every Indian father who is protective of his children, although they want to be independent, via his performance.

Rashmika Mandanna makes the right choice for her Bollywood movie debut with Goodbye. The film sees her playing the role of Tara Bhalla, a rebellious young girl, who is as stubborn as her father. She is on a constant quest of understanding the logic between everything. Be it the logic behind the traditions followed after the death of a person, or the immersion of the ashes in a river, Rashmika aka Tara tries to find the logic behind all. Mandanna delivers a stellar performance as Tara Bhalla, a lawyer by profession. And, her performance as Tara is convincible. But, I watched Sita Ramam, her previous Telugu movie and found her playing a similar role of such, a rebelious character, questioning the rights and wrongs.

Neena Gupta plays Gayatri Bhalla. One can say her character acts like ‘glue’ that keeps every character connected with each other. She is an important element in the movie and nothing would have seemed that great without Gupta’s awesomeness. Neena Gupta is the breath of fresh air in the movie in all the beautiful and sad moments of her with her family.

Pavail Gulati essays the role of Karan Bhalla, the older, scholar son, an NRI, married to a foreigner, Elli AvrRam (Daisy). Gulati enacts his character well as the ignorant son, who is more focused on ‘earning money’ and ‘wrapping up’ his mother’s funeral rituals. Elli AvrRam aka Daisy is the sweet foreigner Bahu and she is just that! Elli manages to grab your attention with her innocence and antics. Be it when she is completely unaware about how one dons only white and not black at a funeral, or how a Hindu meal comes without the Chicken.

Ashish Vidyarthi, the know it all uncle and Sunil Grover aka Panditji are two characters in the movie that add the humour and sense element. While Ashish Vidyarthi brings humour in the first half, Sunil Grover quite effortlessly impresses with his spirituality in the second half.  Shivin Narang, and Abhishekh Khan in their roles do not miss to shine.

Direction/Screenplay:

The first half of the film builds the funeral scene at every household. Here, the director shows his creativity by adding humour to a situation of such. He perfectly executes minute situations circling around the neighbors who visit the home, after a member of the family has passed away. One starts relating to the scenes when there is one person, who is the know it all in terms of customs or traditions, solely because “ Maine yeh bohot baar kiya hai (Have attended many funerals) .”

Not just that, we also have the ‘pados wali chachi group’ or as they may fondly call them ‘Gayatri ki Bubbliyaan’. The director manages to add humour to a sad and emotional situation, with moments like the group of women ‘chachi’s’ are so wasted that all they think about is ‘How to create a group to remember Gayatri Bhalla after her passing’. They also come with funny WhatsApp group names like ‘Harish Needs Us’ and ‘Gone Gayatri Gone’; heights of stupidity we would say. But, Bahl smartly gives a glimpse of the scene in every household that lost a loved one.

The screenplay has a few key elements well executed by Bahl. In one scene, Amitabh Bachchan handling the preparations for his wife’s funeral, forgets he’s wearing his chappals or Pavail calling out to ‘Mumma’, later to find out she is no more, breaks your heart.

The director of Photography, Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti, with Bahl, brings out his best in the scene with Sr Bachchan. The actor is crying inconsolably, while immersing the ashes of  his loved one. The boogey running down his nose is so beautifully captured that you feel disgusted for a second, but when as you understand his emotion; it kills you there!

Amit Trivedi does a good job with the music of Goodbye. The hard base and the soul touching melody with Swanand Kirkire’s lyrics strikes an emotional chord. The songs do not create a disturbance in the movie, despite it being a funeral drama, but instead make the movie meatier.

Conclusion: 

The Amitabh Bachchan and Rashmika Mandanna funeral drama is a heartwarming piece of art and it leaves you with a warm and fuzzy feeling. While you are glued on to your seat, the plot is gripping, relatable and heart-winning in every way, for someone who has lost a loved one. Goodbye has its loopholes but it intends to leave you with a warm feeling.

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Goodbye Review: Rashmika Mandanna Gives Patchy Funeral Drama Rare Brighter Moments

Goodbye review: the performances, despite amitabh bachchan headlining the cast, are rudimentary. the writing is inconsistent and aimed at the easily swayed..

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Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna, Neena Gupta, Ashish Vidyarthi

Director: Vikas Bahl

Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)

Depiction of loss and grief on the big screen can strike a chord only if the emotions at the film's heart are conveyed with genuine empathy and delineated with the requisite subtlety. In Goodbye , written and directed by Vikas Bahl, none of what could make it work over and beyond the surface level is allowed much space.

Goodbye will make you shed copious tears all right but leave you none the wiser about the act of processing of pain and tiding over it. The performances, despite Amitabh Bachchan headlining the cast, are rudimentary. The writing, while achieving an occasional sharp twinge, is inconsistent and aimed at the easily swayed.

The patchy funeral drama has a suitably sombre premise, but the broad-brush treatment of the plight of a Chandigarh family coping with the untimely death of a matriarch - the film revolves around the woman's last rites stretching from the preparations for the cremation to the tehrvi , the 13th day of mourning - gives authenticity no chance.

Sluggish, insubstantial and meandering, Goodbye never acquires the sort of gravitas one would expect from a film that wants to pass itself off as a mature, sensitive exploration of sorrow and its manifestations. The wherewithal to fully measure up to that expectation eludes it. What is worse, some parts of the film only seem to trivialise the act of grieving and remembering.

Goodbye alternates between the morose and the mirthful. The latter component is provided primarily by a bunch of ladies from the neighbourhood who put on a brazenly fake show of sympathy for the bereaved. They fret far more over grabbing a comfortable chair, clicking a selfie or deciding on a name for a WhatsApp group. It is difficult to miss the hint of sexism here.

Goodbye opens with a disco number that goes 'Hic hic hic' and has a tipsy Tara Bhalla (Rashmika Mandanna) dancing without a care in the world. A budding lawyer in Mumbai, she has just won her first case. The next morning, as she wakes up all groggy, Tara realises that she has missed a series of calls from her dad Harish Bhalla (Amitabh Bachchan). The old man has bad tidings to convey: Tara's mother Gayatri (Neena Gupta) is no more.

Tara has not seen eye to eye with her father for quite a while but she takes the first flight to Chandigarh to be by his side even as they continue to spar over little disagreements. As preparations get underway for the cremation, a stuck-up family friend P.P. Singh (Ashish Vidyarthi), a self-appointed guardian of tradition, barks instructions to all and sundry about rules and rituals.

Two of Tara's brothers, including the married Los Angeles resident Karan (Pavail Gulati), are duly informed of the demise of their mother. They struggle to make their way back home from two different parts of the world. Karan arrives with his American wife, Daisy (Elli Avram), whose ignorance about what clothes to wear to a Hindu funeral causes some comic consternation. She is a quick learner but, continuing the film's belief that women need schooling, never ceases to be a butt of ridicule.

A third brother is incommunicado. The audience is merely told about his existence but not about his whereabouts. We spend almost the entire length of the two-and-a-half-hour film wondering when this missing guy is going to show up and reinvigorate the funereal air that the film unsuccessfully seeks to sustain in a severely faltering second half.

The young man surfaces when he isn't exactly needed anymore - the departed lady's ashes have already been scattered in the Ganga and the family is back home for the tehrvi - but the film milks the guy's delayed appearance to the last ounce.

Goodbye aspires to be a modern and rational film about a family coming to terms with the death of a dear one. So, it creates room for a young rebellious girl who pooh-poohs elaborate rituals and keeps harping on the fact that this simply isn't the kind of final send-off that her free-spirited mother would have wanted.

Tara is a non-conformist in an orthodox family. Her boyfriend in Mumbai, where she works, is a guy called Mudassar. He accompanies her to Chandigarh for the funeral and serves as one of the four pall-bearers. A few eyebrows are raised but, with P.P. Singh holding his horses, all goes well. That apart, the Bhallas have a young maid who they treat like a family member. One begins to admire the film because Tara appears to having her way.

Sadly, courage deserts Goodbye in the second half. The family embarks on a journey to Rishikesh with Gayatri Bhalla's ashes. There, they engage a chatty panditji (Sunil Grover) to preside over the ceremony. He spouts homilies about the centrality of religious rituals in life and death.

Tara registers her protest but she does so without the vehemence you expect from a girl with her own ideas about what constitutes the act of grieving for a lost one. Everything that you do not understand is not necessarily false, the cheerful priest says to Tara. He also tells her that she should celebrate the stories and memories that Gayatri has left for her.

If that sounds perfectly logical on the face of it, the priest's pronouncements become a pretext for Goodbye to peddle a whole lot of conservative claptrap and allow emotions to be drowned in cloying sentimentality. Amitabh Bachchan's character delivers a soliloquy to the urn that contains his wife's ashes and enumerates all the acts of omission that he was guilty of when she was around in flesh and blood.

It is always easy to move audiences to tears with a story of bereavement designed to make the most of the cliches of the genre. But this is a film in which the only truly forlorn character is the family pet, a Golden Retriever named Stupid, who hangs around the portrait of the woman who brought him home as a puppy. The human characters around the canine are too erratically and laboriously fleshed out to be unswervingly effective.

The aforementioned garlanded photograph does a disappearing act when the departed woman's third son arrives late in the film, blissfully unaware that she has passed on. But that is not as difficult to digest as a CGI crow that appears on the terrace and is believed to be embodying the soul of the dead as its awaits her passage to heaven.

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Goodbye is mounted as a platform for Amitabh Bachchan. He does everything that is expected of him. Rashmika Mandanna holds her own amid the runaway mawkishness, giving the film its rare brighter moments. If only the character she plays was allowed to hold her ground and go to the extent of getting her dad and brothers to support her faith in rationalism, she would have lent Goodbye some much-wanted heft. Neena Gupta, whose character is dead at the outset of the film and who appears only in flashbacks, serves to liven up the proceedings. One wishes there was more of her.

Goodbye is crafted to deliver an unabashed workout for the lachrymal glands. Its grievously shallow methods undermine its avowed purpose.

Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna, Neena Gupta, Ashish Vidyarthi

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Goodbye Movie Review: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna Starrer Gives A Long, Warm Hug To Everyone Who Has Lost Someone!

Goodbye is a movie that does what it intends to regardless of the flaws that get overshadowed by emotions..

Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Neena Gupta, Rashmika Mandanna, Pavail Gulati, Ashish Vidyarthi, Abhishekh Khan & ensemble.

Director: Vikas Bahl.

What’s Good: A story so personal that each one will relate to it. It’s a reminder of the pain you brushed under the carpet or the pain that you fear facing someday.

What’s Bad: The hygiene between humour and emotions in parts is missing which doesn’t blend the two very well.

Loo Break: If you feel the emotions to the core and can’t cry in public.

Watch or Not?: Watch, because even with the flaws Vikas Bahl brings unfiltered emotions and they touch the correct chord.

Language: Hindi (with subtitles).

Available on: In Theatres Near You.

Runtime: 146 Minutes.

A nuclear family with parents and four children is scattered in different parts of the world. The mother suddenly passes away and now the entire camp needs to come under one roof to see her off one last time. The stories unfold, dynamics are put to test and the way to grieve loss is explored.

Goodbye Movie Review: Script Analysis

Hindi cinema in the past two years with films like Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi , Pagglait, and a couple more have explored the idea of how one should deal with the biggest fear of life, someone close to you passing away. What circus it leads to, and do we really need to do the things we are conditioned to for ages now? Vikas Bahl with his writing brings another addition, a bit more contemporary to the table, and before anything else lets someone question his idea, he hits them with ultimate emotions. It’s a good thing, at least for him.

Written by Vikas, Goodbye is about a family that is dealing with the loss of the matriarch, and one who was the glue for this family that is borderline dysfunctional, but still together. So when these characters meet and talk to each other without any connection as compared to the blissful flashbacks, Bahl makes it very clear that he wants a tsunami of emotions and nostalgia to hit his viewers because that is how his story will sail. By opening the film to the tragedy and then slowly going back in time to make you meet what’s lacking between the characters until now, he connects the audience to his cinema. And as soon as the first glimpse of Neena Gupta fills the void, you as an audience have already shed at least a few tears.

Bear me if I use the word ‘emotion’ way too many times, but that is the one-word power that Goodbye thrives upon. The clear idea is to make you see the world without a mother figure and that could be subjective for everyone, but the bond and its absence remain the same. Vikas even beautifully succeeds in doing so. Because he isn’t only focusing on what’s gone, but even how life without her looks and will continue to in the future.

In his urge to create real people and conflicts he even adds humour to the script and majority of which is situational. But he also realises that his motive is to make people cry, so he also doesn’t invest much time in leading to the cremation. And dare you to hold back those tears, because even with some flaws, the feeling of a void we all are afraid of pierces our hearts and shatters it. Even a lifeless Neena Gupta lying on a block of ice is enough to make you feel all sad, and add to it she brings the most warmth as the story goes into flashbacks.

The idea about how one must grieve and who decides is explored quite well. A father who is angry with everything around him because he lost his anger, a son who makes him realise it isn’t just him who has lost someone, a daughter who has differences with the said father and now has to go through the conditioned rituals so that her mother achieves salvation. Everything lands home.

Not that the movie is as flawless as Bahl’s Queen which is another example of how well he knows to handle emotions. (We don’t talk about Shaandaar here). But Goodbye in parts lacks in the transition prowess. Mainly in the scenes between humour and emotional turn, it feels abrupt and you can feel the bump. The bump can also be felt when a new scene begins. Mostly because of the aforementioned transition, but also when Vikas decides to open them with some unlikely notes. Like when the father catches his son having s*x the night of his mother’s cremation and there is a reasoning to it, full marks for highlighting the modern-day problem, but how it begins is a bit weird.

Goodbye Movie Review: Star Performance

Amitabh Bachchan as an actor is evolving even at the age of 80 and with the megastar status only makes me respect him more with each passing day. He as the father of this camp has to be strong. Especially in two scenes where he is preparing for the funeral with no space to grieve and another where he finally gets a moment so talks to his wife’s ashes, my heart broke in each of them. You see the actor not taking his status for granted and my goodness he makes you feel every single emotion he enacts. Be it his dilemma, insecurities, anger, love, everything.

Neena Gupta is what we are exploring as the film happens. She is the epitome of everything good in one’s life and so cute that you cannot imagine someone like her lying on a pyre. There is warmth in her performance and every time she gets to romance Big B, she lives her dream to be the heroine that she forever deserved to be.

Rashmika Mandanna gives an earnest performance and it is a tough place to be because she shares the most screen time with Bachchan. The actor cries convincingly and you are invested in Tara because most of the conflict is around her. With a lot of responsibility, the actor walks the path pretty well. Full marks to the makers for letting her dub her own lines. But everytime someone points out the family is Punjabi and Tara is the real child and not adopted, the accent does bother a bit.

Everyone else including Pavail Gulati, Sahil Mehta, Elli Avram, Ashish Vidyarthi, Abhishekh Khan play their parts with conviction and belief. Sunil Grover in a cameo does impress. Think of him as Vikas Bahl explaining you what his film is exactly about without becoming very preachy. The idea works because he makes it very smooth and likeable. He says what are we but stories and that does work right.

Goodbye Movie Review: Direction, Music

Vikas Bahl understands his audience and caters what’s needed. I have a critical gaze, but a normal viewer will walk past the flaws to feel the story and come out crying.

There are obvious story loopholes that could have been rectified in the screen translation. Like Mudassar saying I will come to the funeral you go ahead to Tara and landing there the next morning makes no sense. Or Nakul’s storyline is so fast-paced and then he gets down from a train to charge in phone while we all know that particular train does have electric sockets.

Amit Trivedi after a long time brings an album that wins hearts. Of course, Jaikal Mahakal and Chann Pardesi are winners, there are a few more good ones and you must listen.

Goodbye Movie Review: The Last Word

Goodbye is a movie that does what it intends to regardless of the flaws that get overshadowed by emotions. It is also an art if you observe. If you can ignore them too, go for it and feel the pain of losing and the way to mend your heart.

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Goodbye releases on 07 October, 2022.

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Goodbye Review: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna Film is Breath of Fresh Air, Calls For a Family Outing

Curated By : Entertainment Bureau

Edited By: Bohni Bandyopadhyay

Last Updated: November 21, 2022, 23:55 IST

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• 7 October 2022 | Hindi
• 2 hrs 10 mins | Comedy, Drama
• Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna, Neena Gupta, Pavail Gulati, Ashish Vidyarthi, Elli AvrRam
• Director: Vikas Bahl
• Music: Amit Trivedi

Goodbye Review: Rashmika Mandana as a lawyer who questions the familial workings after the death of her mother makes a promising debut in Hindi cinema.

You are in for a pleasant surprise if you intend to watch the Amitabh Bachchan-Rashmika Mandana-Neena Gupta starrer Goodbye. A little over 2 hours long, the film is able to capture the tumultuous relationship shared by members of a family that comes to the fore after the unfortunate death of the mother.

Amitabh Bachchan plays a brooding father who is not patriarchal in anyway but is aghast by the carelessness of the family members when they arrive for the funeral. Rashmika Mandana as a lawyer who questions the familial workings after the death of her mother makes a promising debut in Hindi cinema. Pavail Gulati and Sahil Mehta play Bachchan’s sons. While Gulati’s character finds it difficult to navigate his professional and personal life in the wake of his mother’s death, Mehta comes across as an obedient son finding it hard to come to terms with what has happened.

Then there’s Neena Gupta, who never stopped being a star. She’s a scene stealer. She plays the mother who passionately encourages her children to aim higher in life and not give up on their dreams. She is also the person who is able to bring out the loving and easy-going side to Bachchan’s character. Unfortunately, with her demise, he transitions into a somber individual terrified of being alone for the rest of his life.

Bachchan is brilliant as a father afraid to open up to his children about his fear. Alone in a big house, he imagines a lifeless existence after the funeral when his children return back to their normal life. The fact that they seem to be casual about it infuriates him further.

There is also a cameo by Sunil Grover. Grover has a charming presence. His appearance is smooth and flown naturally with the story. The writing deserves a mention here as well. By infusing dry humour into a sad scheme of things, the audience is not allowed to turn away their attention.

Abhishekh Khan’s presence towards the end of the film is impactful as well. Ashish Vidyarthi plays Bachchan’s friend who stands by him through thick and thin. He is, of course, a seasoned actor who is able to hold his own in every scene he makes an appearance in.

Vikas Bahl asks many questions in his latest film. It is hard to find loose ends in his film and even if it exists it proves to be inconsequential, unable to hamper the film’s strong points.

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'Goodbye Earth' Review: The dystopian tale fails in execution

Goodbye earth review: a good plotline is wasted by poor execution. the actors do their best to salvage the drama, but a weak plot can only draw that much attention..

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• New K-drama 'Goodbye Earth' depicts a post-asteroid disaster scenario
• The show's interesting plotline is wasted by poor execution
• The show's 12 episodes, of an hour each, makes it a tedious watch

Release Date: 26 Apr, 2024

What if your stay on Earth comes with an expiry? You have only 200 days to live! To think of this dystopian possibility can make you shudder. A new K-drama, ‘Goodbye Earth’, centers around this premise after an asteroid crashes into the Earth, leaving the peaceful city of Woongcheon in South Korea in chaos.

‘Goodbye Earth’ is not the first K-drama that experiments with a dystopian world. In the last two years, there has been a surge in dramas of this genre. Be it ‘Black Knight’ or ‘Hellbound’, this is perhaps the first time a K-drama deals with an asteroid-led disaster.

Adapted from the book by Kōtarō Isaka (Bullet Train, aka Maria Beetle), the show is a survival drama focusing on middle school teacher Se-Kyung, played by Hospital Playlist fame Ahn Eun-jin. She takes the baton to protect her students in her own hands. She receives help from In-a [Kim Yoon-hye], who is a former battalion commander and fights against human trafficking. Parallel to this, you have a cult expose happening with Sung-jae [Jeon], a young priest attempting to safeguard his congregation.

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The change in the subject within the narrative is quite apparent. Director Kim Jin-min of 'My Name' fame starts off well with a story that draws all your attention. However, three episodes in and you begin to see the cracks. The drama’s own survival history is quite a case study itself, especially after crucial scenes featuring Yoo Ah-in, who played a scientist in the story, were edited following his controversy. The cuts have affected the show’s narrative immensely.

A good plotline is wasted by poor execution. Perhaps, the story, which was to focus on finding solutions versus showing the human tendency of survival, was limited to the latter because of scene cuts. In all of this, the story turns out to be the ultimate loser. The actors do their best to salvage the drama, but a weak plot can only draw that much attention. Amongst all the dystopian dramas that released in the last year, this might be the weakest.

The show has 12 episodes, each with an average watch time of an hour, which makes it tedious to watch.

Much can be blamed on the edit, but again, just like the show, it was about surviving at best. However, if one had 200 days to survive, binge-watching ‘Goodbye Earth’ would never make it to any recommendations.

'Goodbye Earth' is streaming on Netflix. 2 out of 5 stars for Netflix show 'Goodbye Earth' Published By: Arushi Jain Published On: Apr 28, 2024 ALSO READ | Inside 'Queen of Tears' wrap party: Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Ji-won celebrate with cast

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