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Movie Name: Bloody Daddy
Directed by: Ali Abbas Zafar
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Amy Aela, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy, Ankur Bhatia, Sanjay Kapoor, Rajeev Khandelwal, Vivan Bhatena, Zeishan Quadri, Mario Silva
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Release Date: June 09, 2023
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Original Network: Jio Cinema
A messed up, tenacious man faces off against cops and crime lords to save the one relationship that matters to him.
Bloody Daddy: About
Bloody Daddy is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar who co-wrote the film with Aditya Basu and Siddharth–Garima, and produced by Jio Studios. It features Shahid Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal, Ankur Bhatia and Vivan Bhatena. It is the adaptation of 2011 French film Sleepless Night, which itself was remade in Tamil as Thoongaa Vanam (2015), starring Kamal Haasan.
Bloody Daddy is scheduled to be released for free on 09 June 2023 on JioCinema.
An NCB officer (Shahid Kapoor) and his team in Gurugram crackdown a drug deal, leading the drug lord (Ronit Roy) to kidnap the NCB officer’s son in exchange for retrieving a bag of cocaine. With no other option left, the NCB officer agrees to retrieve the bag from the NCB headquarters, and bring it to his club for the exchange. Upon entering the club, he soon uncovers some of the moles in the NCB and earns the suspicions of his colleagues.
Bloody Daddy: Movie Trailer
Shahid Kapoor knifes down goons; fans call him ‘John Wick from Flipkart’
Shahid Kapoor is a lone man fighting down a bunch of goons in the first teaser of Bloody Daddy. The film releases on June 9 on Jio Cinemas.
The official teaser of Shahid Kapoor’s upcoming film Bloody Daddy is here. Directed by Tiger Zinda Hai’s Ali Abbas Zafar, the action thriller sees Shahid in a rugged avatar, taking down multiple goons in a hotel over the course of a night. The teaser also gives a glimpse of Sanjay Kapoor and Diana Penty.
Bloody Daddy marks the first collaboration between Ali Abbas Zafar and Shahid Kapoor. The teaser shows Shahid Kapoor in a black suit entering a dark hallway of a hotel, and then proceeding to take down goons with a knife. The action then proceeds to show how Shahid’s character is aiming to take revenge for a personal crisis. The teaser speeds off to show how the action involves “cops, family and lots and lots of blood.” Shahid shared the teaser on his Instagram and wrote in the caption: “Get ready for a BLOODY good time at the movies. #BloodyDaddy June 9, 2023 on @officialjiocinema.”
The teaser garnered a lot of response on social media. Many noticed how the teaser and Shahid’s character resembled a lot like the films from Keanu Reeves’ John Wick franchise. A comment read, “Desi John Wick,” while another said, “John wick vibes.” A fan wrote, “Rocky handsome + John wick ka mixture lag raha hai.” (Looks like a mix of Rocky Handsome and John Wick.” Another user said, “Coat pahen ke fight kya kar li.. sab john wick kar rahe… matlab kuch bhi. Btw it looks amazing… looking forward” (He is fighting in a coat so everyone saying John Wick). “John wick in 144pb,” read another comment.
Talking about the film, Shahid had told PTI that he enjoyed doing action onscreen. “It was a lot of fun. I had a great time doing an action film, I really enjoyed working with Ali. He understands the genre very well. The dilemma now is that if you’re doing something of this scale, on OTT, what do you do on the big screen? So we have to figure that out, it has been a blast,” the 42-year-old actor said. Bloody Daddy is set to be the official adaptation of the 2011 French film Nuit Blanche.
The announcement of the release date of the movie was made at a recent event of Jio Studios, which was named Infinite Together. The film is aiming for a direct digital release on Jio Cinemas from June 9. Apart from Shahid, the film also stars Ronit Roy, Sanjay Kapoor, Diana Penty and Rajeev Khandelwal.
Movie Review:
Actioner with a dash of emotion makes for a decent watch
The quaint title, ‘Bloody Daddy’, doesn’t promise much, but the names associated with it do. A lot. Ali Abbas Zafar, the director who has given us blockbusters like ‘Sultan’ and ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’, talented and dashing actor Shahid Kapoor who rarely disappoints and a battery of other consummate actors like Rajeev Khandelwal, Ronit Roy and Sanjay Kapoor. So, what do we get? To be honest, a mixed bag.
Set in the post-pandemic times, it reminds us how crime spiked after the Covid wave that killed thousands and impoverished as many. Interestingly, the film was shot in 36 days during the pandemic itself. Of course, once the narrative unfolds in this remake of the 2011 French thriller ‘Nuit Blanche’ (‘Sleepless Night’), the subject at hand could be true anytime, anywhere.
The very first scene takes us to a narcotics bust and a killing. Among the men who execute it is our star, Shahid Kapoor (Sumair Azad). A single father to a petulant and precocious young boy, is he a criminal out to make a fast buck? The director takes his own sweet time to rub in how Shahid and his associate are not ‘pretend cops’ covering the footprints of their crime but real policemen. Moral or amoral, the actioner is actually engaged in more of a police-police game rather than a chor-police one. Which cop is on the right side of the law and who isn’t? Apart from Khandelwal who plays Sameer, there is Diana Penty as Aditi aka Lady Singham. Not our words but that of the writers.
The writers — Zafar has co-written the film with Aditya Basu and Siddharth-Garima — anyway, have little room to flex their muscles. However, they do pack in a few funny lines here and there. Clearly, the heavy lifting is done by the hero as he confronts his bête noire, Sikander (Ronit Roy), and his henchmen. Sure, kidnapper and drug dealer Sikander is a bad guy, even if he doesn’t look like one and is happy to order lactose-free chocolate shake for the boy he has kidnapped. No prizes for guessing that the ransom price is a bag of cocaine worth Rs 50 crore, which actually belongs to Sikander only.
Before the film cruises to an expected conclusion and we know that the barter will end up the right way, there is loads of action and Smart Alec moves by our hero. His maneuvers to outsmart both the cops and gangsters hold our attention. Needless to say, Shahid is the biggest asset of the film. Both as the bloody cop who shoots without blinking and the seemingly indifferent father who may not have time for his son but is ready to kill for him, he is effective if not superlative. His charm and the pace of the film in the first hour are enough to keep the momentum going. But in the sea-saw battle between the good cop, the bad cop and, of course, the army of bad men, repetitiveness creeps in somewhere.
Since the climax is a given and most of the action is centered in a hotel, the kitchen is the flashpoint, and Zafar loses the grip on our interest quotient. In a rush to tie the threads and the din of action that moves into a loop zone (one action sequence after another), even Badshah’s peppy number ‘Issa Vibe’ gets lost.
Streaming on JioCinema, which is upping its game in the field of entertainment with a slew of new releases, we would still call ‘Bloody Daddy’ a fair entertainer. Like us, if you watch it with zero expectations, it can certainly serve as a decent filler on a dreary evening. ‘Bloody Daddy’, which amps up Shahid’s badass action moves, isn’t bad at all.
