All Is Well

It is a pleasant relaxed watch. No violence or sleaze. It was nice to watch Rishi Kapoor in a major role pitted against his "screen" son enacted by Abhishek. There is a nice base of melodrama, good chunk of roadie (on the road), dash of romance, some comic villains in the story. The guy who acted in the role of the loan shark along with his sidekicks were hilarious, without being over the top. Asin plays a good foil. Overall, decent fare. Nothing spectacular, but worth a watch when you don't want to tax yourself much. There were other reviews which seemed overtly critical. Frankly it was not bad at all. It is a good family movie.

I am going to describe the four main characters of the film; it will be enough for you to decide if you should watch this utter fail at filmmaking.

Junior Bachchan plays an arrogant son of a Punjabi sweet-maker who is now living in Bangkok after having run away from his house as a teenager on account of his father's abusive nature. Comparing his expressions to that of a wood would be an insult to the latter as he goes about ignoring the umpteen requests made by his presumed spiritual girlfriend who is desperate to marry and get laid. Playing his on-screen father is the talented Rishi Kapoor who unanimously wins the competition among the cast for overacting. Supriya Pathak makes being a mental patient look like the seven tests of hell. Last but not the least, Asin's Air India flight from Mumbai (and Bollywood) leaves this week.

Within the first ten minutes one learns how laziness played a significant role in the making of the film. Who else would play an emotional song in between sequences where the characters are delivering dialogs important to the plot? There's only one thing that you would do after watching the film and that is feeling bad for the actors.

BOTTOM LINE: All Is Well is a brilliant lesson in how to not make a film.

GRADE: F

VERDICT: Skip for life.

Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES

To write about this movie, I had to google for a word that is opposite of creativity. I stumbled upon "mindlessness" and thats the apt word for this movie. I seriously wonder how such movies can be conceived, financed and produced. Scenes that appear or try to be funny have been ridiculous and seem to annoy more than entertain. I thanked that I did not spend watching it in cinema and watched it on TV, I only wished I had ability to fast forward it. Watch this movie if you are seriously running out films to watch and suggest keeping some paracetamol within close proximity. 1 star for its music but the movie is worth negative stars !

Nice Family Entertainment Movie.

In today's fast paced society, money has become the ultimate God & made Man mad, every one is just running to make maximum numbers for one- self, everywhere only personal ego & selfishness exist, even family relationship & values are lost...the movie brings an good message to society for realization of family values & responsibilities, with strong emotional connect between both Child & Parents ambitions. True happiness lies in rewarding relationships, that is real wealth, not flashy money possessions...

Go watch the Movie with your Family...

Many a times, it's just the opening 10 minutes of a film and one clearly gets the idea about how tough the next two hours are going to be sitting in the theatre. Still the hope refuses to die and the viewers seriously keep waiting for something better to be there soon in the remaining time.

Unfortunately this hope doesn't work in case of ALL IS WELL, since the film neither delivers in the beginning, nor has something entertaining to offer in the mid as well as the end, surprisingly coming from the director of widely acclaimed, meaningful venture OH MY GOD. In fact one repeatedly remembers the title of his last film in the literal sense (with an exclamation mark) watching even an actor like Rishi Kapoor hamming on the screen due to many poorly written sequences with lots of weird dialogues.

To be specific, the very first thing that causes the big disappointment is the faulty use of Punjabi language and many characters in the script speaking with an awfully artificial Punjabi accent not suiting just anybody. Moreover this is again a comic project from few of those 'extremely creative minds' who still consider Punjabis as only funny people knowing nothing other than laughing, eating and dancing. Secondly the father, mother, son and even the girlfriend turn out to be 'a bunch of people' far away from reality making no connection whatsoever with the viewers. And thirdly its the wrong casting of Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub as the fumbling don who miserably fails in his sincere attempt to somehow keep it 'hilarious' right till his final scene.

In actual terms, it's the inferior writing, flat jokes, poor one- liners, hamming acts and unentertaining execution with nothing engaging happening throughout its two hours of duration that work as the main culprits here. Plus the below average soundtrack and a feeble try to cover more than one genres further damage the film brutally right from the word 'go'.

For instance it begins focusing on a struggler musician (with a disturbed childhood) looking for a brake, who doesn't believe in the institution of marriage and then goes on to become a crude chase comedy, a road movie, a love-marriage saga and a family drama altogether giving an important social message in its concluding scenes. But above all it's the badly written script that simply doesn't let the film convey anything before or after the intermission apart from few emotional sequences in its climax that unfortunately appear when the game has already been lost. Umesh Shukla, the director of OMG is nowhere visible in the entire film and it's a pity to see actors such as Rishi Kapoor, Supriya Pathak and Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub coming up with all mediocre performances due to the reckless writing. Asin remains completely wasted in a silly role and Sonakshi once again proves her 'repetitive talent' in a forcibly inserted item number that's good for nothing.

A routine camera-work, unnoticeable background score, shabby art direction and below average soundtrack become the other weak departments of ALL IS WELL. Plus the makers also dare to recreate the soothing love song 'Aye Mere Humsafar' from QSQT that actually doesn't even deserve a mention here. But at the same time, I wonder why QSQT has suddenly become the hot-favourite, as one of its song was recently also used in the much appreciated MASAAN.

Coming to the lead star of the film Abhishek Bachchan, the actor always tries to perform in a decent manner to the best of his ability as per the given role. But honestly ALL IS WELL once again makes me think that, Why many of the awful films always manage to fall in the lap of Abhishek Bachchan only repeatedly?

May be its because of his choice of roles or the luck factor refusing to favour since long, Abhishek certainly needs to find his lost form at the earliest, living to the reputation once formed with YUVA and GURU.

In all, after some terribly unbearable 100 minutes, ALL IS WELL faintly manages to convey a valuable message in its climax reminding everyone to essentially take good care of their ageing parents providing them all the love and warmth in their final decades when they actually need it the most.

However, despite the precious message, I still cannot recommend this mess unexpectedly created by the man behind OH MY GOD.