Movie Home Synopsis Cast and Crew Review Trailers and Videos Stills Wallpapers Music Review User Reviews Showtimes Promotional EventsDirected by K Murali Mohan Rao and starring Suniel Shetty, Ashish Chowdhry, Aftab Shivdasani, Aarti Chhabria, Tulip Joshi, Javed Jaffrey, Kim Sharma amongst others; Daddy Cool is an agonizing and disastrous desi remake of the satirical Hollywood film Death At A Funeral. With a shoddy plot and runtime of 1hr and 15min, the film is all about the atrocious affairs of a funeral house.
The first half of the movie is spent with the arrival of family and friends. While things get messy with each arrival, the worst is on when a friend reveals a dark secret about the deceased. Post interval portions are all about resolving the issues and finally paying respect to the deceased.
The movie falls flat beginning with the initial reels. Basically, the setting and the story is not suited for our tadka desi audience. The film is an exact replica and fails miserably to deliver even a tad bit of hilarity or entertainment of the original. Adding to the pain of a sloppy story are the pathetic performances by the character actors. While they try extremely hard to evoke laughter, they probably succeeded a couple of times, but that's about it.
Suniel Shetty tries hard, but fails. Jaaved Jaffery is good at times. Among the rest of the cast, some have nothing to do, others who have, ham!
Overall Daddy Cool is a dud, a B-grade film that doesn't deserve a watch, neither in theatres nor on DVD.
Why remake a shoddy, tasteless British comedy? Why be so fixated on Western entertainment when we've so much literary and pulp talent out here?
Just leave aside these vital questions and focus on the ensemble cast of "Daddy Cool" that sparkles with borrowed wit. The Goan setting and the quaint rooms housing distraught emotions keep us smiling.
The setting is a Christian funeral. But at times the funeral jokes have us coughing in embarrassment. The dead man has two sons - a responsible, young bespectacled householder (Suniel Shetty) and a carefree cassanova novelist (Ashish Chowdhary) who flies in jetlagged just in time for daddy's funeral.
And Sharad Saxena is deadly in his stillness as the dead man.
Interestingly, daddy has a secret in his closet. And that's Rajpal Yadav, his gay lover.
"Isska matlab tum dono gay ke bete ho!" squeals Aarti Chabria to her screen-husband Suniel Shetty and his brother Ashish.
Ironically after copying everything in sight in the original - from the characters to the dialogues - the desi adaptors get cold feet and decide the gay lover was an imposter.
To be fair to this feisty farce, "Daddy Cool" makes you smile, specially Aftab Shivdasani as a drugged-out goofy lover-boy. He is better than the actor who played the role originally.
Shetty as the responsible son, who is a little tired of shouldering family responsibilitie but nonetheless determined to see the show through, is controlled and comically karmic. His climactic speech in praise of his father is rousing. Rajpal Yadav as the gay lover is superbly restrained.
And then there's Sophie Chowdhary as the suitably sexy airhead.
Blessedly this farce doesn't opt for desperate measures. It keeps it cool most of the way.
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