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‘Goodbye’ movie review: Amitabh Bachchan, Rashmika Mandanna in a more preachy than poignant film

Amitabh bachchan can’t salvage this average study on grief and bereavement, marred by shallow characterisation and treatment.

October 07, 2022 02:31 pm | Updated October 08, 2022 05:59 pm IST

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Pandemic made us realise the fickle nature of life, and stories that explore the ache and anguish that comes from the unanticipated demise of a family member feels all the more real. In Goodbye , writer-director Vikas Bahl explores how different people have different ways of coping with grief. When Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) loses his wife Gayatri (Neena Gupta), he doesn’t have any shoulder to cry upon. His children are busy with their work and partying, and the neighbours are more interested in gossip and providing perfunctory advice.

Harish wants to follow the rituals but has no clear idea of how to go about them. Having missed the last phone call from her mother, his advocate daughter Tara (Rashmika Mandanna) is angry and the fact that she sees no logic in these rituals only adds to it. The elder son Karan (Pavail Gulati) is unable to take his mind off the board meetings and his American wife Daisy (Elli AvrRam) struggles to fit in. Harish’s adopted son Angad (Sahil Mehta) responds to stress by overeating, while the youngest Nakul is unreachable.

Poignant and preachy, this is not new terrain for the audience of Hindi cinema. In fact, after every few years, Hindi cinema comes up with a family film that focuses on how elderly parents feel ignored and cheated by their children. From Rajesh Khanna’s Avtaar and Swarg to Amitabh Bachchan’s Baghban , the list is comprehensive. In the last decade of his career, Kader Khan fuelled his career by writing and acting in such films where the adopted sons, daughters and animals are shown to be more caring towards the aged parents than their progeny.

Then there is another set of films, inspired by Death At A Funeral that explores the bonds, conflicts, and family politics when friends and family get together to say a final goodbye to the deceased. Seema Pahwa’s Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi and Umesh Bist’s Pagglait are two noteworthy works in this space in the last one year.

Bahl attempts a tearjerker by combining the two templates, and it fails only to make us appreciate the craft of the likes of Mohan Kumar and Ravi Chopra who made us shed copious tears. The premise is moving but as it pans out, we discover that the characters are underwritten, the scenes are overwritten, and the conflicts are half-baked. What irks one the most is the lecturing tone to explain the value of rituals and how science and faith can coexist. It seems none of the characters in the film has ever been to cremation and has seen death up close, and the makers want to advertise common religious practices at a funeral to fit into the league of propaganda pictures.

There are heartfelt moments in between, particularly the flashback scenes that capture the love story of Gayatri and Harish that makes you sit up, take note of the beating heart of the narrative and reach out for a handkerchief. But for the most part, it is like a heartwarming subject reduced to a cringe-fest in the hands of a filmmaker who doesn’t know his cinematic punctuation well.

The elements of dark humour feel borrowed and forced after some time, while Bahl's cursory attention to Harish’s adopted child Delna (Payal Thapa) and Tara’s boyfriend Mudassar leave you with question marks.

Like Baghban , Bachchan holds the film together with his time-tested capacity to move the audience with even facile stuff. The monologue where he speaks to the ashes of Gayatri is the high point of the film. But Bahl’s surrender to Bachchan also means that Neena Gupta’s presence has been cut short. It would have been interesting to see a little more of the versatile actor in conversation with Bachchan. Rashmika is efficient as the rage-filled daughter. But Tara’s anger against her father remains unexplained.

Riding on a melancholic Bachchan, the film does look up in the second half when the endearing Sunil Grover as the laptop-wielding priest talks about the deeper meanings of life and death and how memories become stories that keep nurturing us, but the two can’t salvage the film from the inherent shallowness of writing and treatment.

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julieacharyaray 633 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 641 days ago

Okay Very Good Movie

sandy reddy 641 days ago

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

Shrikant Wad 644 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.

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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

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‘Goodbye’ review: A scattershot film about death has its poignant moments

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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Goodbye Movie Review: Don't forget to bring tissues for Amitabh Bachchan-Rashmika Mandanna's film

Take a quick loo break if you can't cry in public because goodbye is loaded with heartbreaking moments. keep the tissues handy before watching this one, says our review..

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• Goodbye releases in the theatres on October 7.
• The film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Rashmika Mandanna among others.
• It is written and directed by Vikas Bahl.

Can anyone predict life? We will never know when's the last time we will see or talk to our parents. There's a line in Life of Pi which perfectly forms the crux of Goodbye. In the film, Irrfan says, “I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

When Gayatri (Neena Gupta) dies suddenly, her husband Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) and her four adult children react in different ways. What follows later is different feelings each member of the family undergoes. Along with them, director Vikas Bahl manages to make you feel those heartbreaking moments too, that will definitely leave you in tears.

Goodbye starts with Tara (Rashmika Mandanna) partying at a club as she celebrates her first career milestone with friends. She gets a call from her mom in between, but she disconnects that. She even ignores her texts. How often have we all been guilty of it too? In between this, Tara misses her father Harish’s phone calls. She wakes up to discover that those calls were made to inform her of her mother Gayatri’s (Neena Gupta) death. What follows later forms the whole story.

Vikas Bahl's Goodbye questions the old and new beliefs. 'Just follow what is being told,' says Big B in the film, while Tara lashes out at the funeral ceremonies, describing them as meaningless. When Gayatri dies, the pandit of the house makes her body shuffle several times so that her head is facing the north side. He also declares that her soul has entered a crow, and blatantly mentions thousands of 'riti riwaz'. This conflict between religion and science is well established here. There are also several funny moments - for example, the ladies in the house fake-crying while trying to think of a name for their new WhatsApp group (Lonely Harish is what they come up with). But the motive is to make you cry.

We have watched several Bollywood films that deal with the loss of loved ones. However, Vikas Bahl's film brings something new to the table. Three cheers to his writing and direction. He perfectly portrays this borderline dysfunctional family who are dealing with the loss of that one person who held them all together. Goodbye has a tsunami of emotions and nostalgia that can't be described, but will hit you hard. A particular scene shows one of Gayatri's sons calling out 'mama, mama' because he forgets she is no more. Goodbye doesn't just focus on Gayatri's death, but how life will continue for the grieving family.

Goodbye has its share of flaws, but that can be overlooked. At times, the execution struggles to establish a tone. The film shuttles between moods that can sometimes look like messy. It oscillates between emotional moments and something totally random.

The star of the film is Amitabh Bachchan, of course. Even at 80, the megastar proves why he is one of the biggest superstars of Indian cinema. From preparing for the funeral to finally getting a moment to talk to his wife's ashes, his role transforms, and your heart will break in both these moments. Rashmika Mandanna struggles with the accent as she sounds too south for a Punjabi role. However, she gets her character right. Even though we hardly see Neena Gupta, she fills the screen space with her presence. She has a certain warmth around her. Everyone else, including Pavail Gulati, Sahil Mehta, Elli Avram, Ashish Vidyarthi, Abhishekh Khan played their parts well. Sunil Grover's cameo as a pandit is also worth mentioning.

Our verdict? Goodbye is filled with heartwarming and heartbreaking moments. The unfiltered emotions in the film touch the right chord and even bring you closer to your loved ones. If you have lost someone dear recently, be prepared to shed some tears. You would understand why we use the word 'emotions' so many times when you watch Goodbye. Vikas Bahl will leave you with many questions as you exit the theatres.

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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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