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‘Good Newwz’ film review: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor deliver a cracking act
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2/12/2025
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It wasn’t laborious to watch Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor Khan’s comedy ‘Good Newwz’ born out of a freak fertility treatment mishap.
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What you have is a sperm swap and it's a comedy of errors that arise from this very bizarre scenario.
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This is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News Tabloid and I've just been to watch one of the
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last movies of 2019, Good News. It's a Bollywood movie starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor,
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Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Adwani and it is directed by the first-timer Raj Mehta.
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It's born out of a very bizarre sperm swap accident that happens when two women are trying
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to fall pregnant, they go to the same clinic and they have the same last name. So there's a
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confusion and the technician makes an error where he injects the wrong sperm into the womb. So what
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you have is a sperm swap and it's a comedy of errors that arise from this very bizarre scenario.
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Now such a scenario is best in movies, when it happens in real life it's a whole different,
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it's a tragedy of sorts but it's the string of comic situations that arise when these two
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couples have to grapple with this impossible and life-altering scenario. Here's what I loved about
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the movie, firstly Akshay Kumar who plays Varun Batra, almost a man-child who simply doesn't know
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how to grapple with the fact that you know his wife is pregnant with somebody else's child,
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is spot on. His comic timing is so good and there are times when he laughs
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aloud and you can't help but laugh with him because he's one of the few actors
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where his laughter is contagious. He's laughing, we are laughing with him not at him. So it's a lot
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of fun to watch this movie because Akshay Kumar is in top form here. There is Kareena Kapoor too,
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who is also a very good accomplished actress, I mean in dramatic scenes where she talks about how
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difficult it is for a woman to be pregnant, what is her feeling towards having a child and why she
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wants to be a mother so badly and when her biological clock is ticking, the fears of every
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modern woman is portrayed very very well. She's a working woman, they waited for seven years before
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having a child and she's scared that her eggs would dry up soon. So it's a fear that I think
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every woman, a modern working woman goes through and she has mirrored their situation very well.
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And then there is Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Dhwani, this couple again called the Batras. The whole
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thing, the confusion arose because then they share similar last names. So what you have are
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the Batras fighting against each other, wondering how to get their head around this impossible
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scenario. Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Dhwani play this flashy Punjabi couple. Their gleaming sweatpants
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made of velvet, shiny velvet, you know does not compare to their heart of gold. Although they
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wear flashy clothes, they wear their heart on the sleeves too. This is one of the examples of a very
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well-cast movie. Director Raj Mehta, it's his first movie, has done an impressive job of extracting
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every juice out of this novel idea. It's not very common for Bollywood movies to grapple with
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pregnancies etc. So they've done a good job of this and they've been very open about pregnant
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women and the kind of problems they face through and they've given it a humorous touch. It's well
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written, the jokes land. I did not find myself getting bored at all. The first half moves at a
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very quick pace. The second half goes a bit dramatic and there are parts when it gets feel
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slightly restless but it's not a painful watch. In fact, good news, there is good news to be
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said in 2019. It's a good film. It's not a laborious watch and it was not a painful
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labor to sit through the movie. I have gone with three out of five.
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For my full review, go to gulfnews.com slash tabloid.
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