Bloody Daddy

Ali Abbas Zafar takes on a Hindi remake of the French crime thriller Nuit Blanche with Shahid Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Ronit Roy, and Diana Penty. If somebody is saying Ali Abbas Zafar is losing his touch in the action zone, then it has to be true considering his last two action films. Tiger Zinda Hai was built on established characters and had franchise value; moreover, it was an original flick, while Bharat and Bloody Daddy are below par. Nuit Blanche might have suited French audiences tastes, but I don’t see any good reasons to have it remade again after seeing the fate of the previous two remakes. Bloody Daddy has a thrill that is simply copied and pasted, but it lags far behind in updated filmmaking. If those conflicts are a decade old now, then how can somebody still not think about refining them for a 2023 audience? AAZ and Shahid‘s combo was supposed to bring some basic changes, but it seems that they didn’t want to bother themselves with some extra creative work.

Written by Frédéric Jardin and Nicolas Saada, Nuit Blanche had some flaws, but they were covered at the time. The same flaws get exposed today. AAZ could have designed his action sequences any way he wanted, but I don’t understand why he had to use a gramophone with Punjabi trance. A bar tender would suddenly ask a person about his marriage in their first casual meeting. The same person won’t have enough brains to understand that he was fooled once by the protagonist. He will still help and talk to him without asking about the previous fiasco. An NCB officer can fake a death, a person who is shot dead in the street can gain consciousness after 5-10 minutes, ladies toilets are more useful to men, and yet the hotel’s reputation is intact, but a disaster act at a wedding toast can still harm the hotelier. So many loops, so many mistakes, so many unnecessary abuses, and what not. Bloody Daddy is literally saved from humiliation by an OTT release, and that too on a platform that is sailing ahead with back-to-back disasters.

Genres:Action, Drama

Director:Ali Abbas Zafar

Cast:Shahid Kapoor, Amy Aela, Ankur Bhatia, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy