Dear Father

The movie is based on the age old Indian premise that a son has to put his father on a pedestal and worship him even when he disrespects your partner at every possible opportunity ( a PhD , gold medallist maths teacher should cook ) , accuse her of infidelity ( just because she comes home at 11 one night) and tries to destroy your relationship. The father character is unbelievably dislikable and hard to empathise with. Then enters the moral police ( literally) who decides to teach some lessons to the couple for not worshipping their father. He does this by leveling false accusations of suicide and murder and what not. In the end, the kids understand their mistake , bring back their father who will now continue to torture them for the rest of his life. Oh also, the couple decides to withdraw their case against the moral police officer because apparently they needed that lesson. Unbelievable!

The movie felt so slow that I had to watch at 1.5x . The first half was tolerable, I even enjoyed it, the second half is just complete torture. What happened in Baghban was that atleast character of AB and Hema Malini were likeable. Here, Paresh Rawal has a complete patriarchal mindset which does not let us root for him. I will have to watch some good movie after this for a nice balance in my life.

If you've seen Paresh Raval's Gujarati Plays and Dramas, you have seen him in his element. In Dear Father, I felt as if I was watching Paresh Raval live.

His acting was fantastic! It is rare that the mettle of a solid screenplay and fantastic acting skills can keep you hinged to your screen for the whole length of a movie. This movie sucks you in from the start, and keeps you there till the last scene.

My respect for Paresh Raval's fantastic acting skills has changed to admiration. This movie is a career defining point for all of its creators and especially the actors and the script writers.

For many years now I have wished Gujarati Cinema to reach this level and deliver this quality of entertainment, awe, thrill and bucketloads of laughter.

I can happily say that with Dear Father, we have finally reached that level!

A standing ovation to all the members of the team. This is a defining moment for Gujarati Cinema and it is wonderful that Paresh Raval is leading the path forward.

I expected to be crime thriller but it turned out something else. There is a lot of suspense which is maintained throughout the movie. But in the end it became lame as the message that this film wanted to convey wasn't that impactful.

The only thing good about the movie was the acting of Paresh Sir and his comic timing. The story gave a good build-up at the beginning, but the ending was something else.