Clearly, the heavylifting is done by the hero as he confronts his bête noire, Sikander (Ronit Roy), and his henchmen. However, they do pack in a few funny lines here and there. ![]() The writers - Zafar has co-written the film with Aditya Basu and Siddharth-Garima - anyway, have little room to flex their muscles. 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. Moral or amoral, the actioner is actually engaged in more of a police-police game rather than a chor-police one. 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. Among the men who execute it is our star, Shahid Kapoor (Sumair Azad). The very first scene takes us to a narcotics bust and a killing. 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. Interestingly, the film was shot in 36 days during the pandemic itself. Set in the post-pandemic times, it reminds us how crime spiked after the Covid wave that killed thousands and impoverished as many. So, what do we get? To be honest, a mixed bag. 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. ![]() The quaint title, ‘Bloody Daddy’, doesn’t promise much, but the names associated with it do.
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