Bloody Daddy Review - Bloody Crap Remake Of Nuit Blanche

Ali Abbas Zafar takes on a Hindi remake of the French crime thriller Nuit Blanche with Shahid Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Ronit Roy, and Diana Penty. If somebody is saying Ali Abbas Zafar is losing his touch in the action zone, then it has to be true considering his last two action films. Tiger Zinda Hai was built on established characters and had franchise value; moreover, it was an original flick, while Bharat and Bloody Daddy are below par. Nuit Blanche might have suited French audiences tastes, but I don't see any good reasons to have it remade again after seeing the fate of the previous two remakes. Bloody Daddy has a thrill that is simply copied and pasted, but it lags far behind in updated filmmaking. If those conflicts are a decade old now, then how can somebody still not think about refining them for a 2023 audience? AAZ and Shahid's combo was supposed to bring some basic changes, but it seems that they didn't want to bother themselves with some extra creative work.

Bloody Daddy is a Hindi adaptation of Nuit Blanche/Sleepless Nights (2011), so there is nothing to tell you about the story. But for the unversed, here's a brief idea: Sumair Azad (Shahid Kapoor) is a narcotics bureau officer who also happens to be a drug provider. But is he what he shows off? Let's not spoil any surprises. So, Sumair is supposed to deliver drugs to a drug dealer, Sikander (Ronit Roy), who has kidnapped his son, Atharva (Sartaaj Kakkar). Sumair is hunted by two of his colleagues, Sameer (Rajeev Khandelwal) and Aditi (Diana Penty), as they suspect him of being a drug provider. Sumair's plans of getting his son back are spoiled by Aditi's duty as he loses a bag of drugs. Sikander is threatened by Hameed (Sanjay Kapoor) to get cocaine before the night ends, while Sumair is surrounded by different challenges at every step. Will he be able to find it and get his son back?

Written by Frédéric Jardin and Nicolas Saada, Nuit Blanche had some flaws, but they were covered at the time. The same flaws get exposed today. AAZ could have designed his action sequences any way he wanted, but I don't understand why he had to use a gramophone with Punjabi trance. A bar tender would suddenly ask a person about his marriage in their first casual meeting. The same person won't have enough brains to understand that he was fooled once by the protagonist. He will still help and talk to him without asking about the previous fiasco. An NCB officer can fake a death, a person who is shot dead in the street can gain consciousness after 5-10 minutes, ladies toilets are more useful to men, and yet the hotel's reputation is intact, but a disaster act at a wedding toast can still harm the hotelier. So many loops, so many mistakes, so many unnecessary abuses, and what not. Bloody Daddy is literally saved from humiliation by an OTT release, and that too on a platform that is sailing ahead with back-to-back disasters.

Bloody Daddy is indeed a performance driven film, but Shahid Kapoor doesn't go for it fully. In some scenes, he can be seen overacting, while in others, he is at his brilliant best. Diana Penty's accent and dialogue delivery remain the same as in all her previous flicks, with only one change in her portrayals—her clothes. Sanjay Kapoor is getting quite typecast in that gangster zone with that shimmering beard, so it is no fun watching this dead character again— no matter how well he performs. The first impression of Ronit Roy is impressive as the camera takes us to his lips and deadly voice, but why on earth did he have to turn yellow and quirky later? Rajeev Khandelwal is such an underrated actor, and it's painful to see him in such a weak character that doesn't go through any dramatic transformation. Sartaaj Kakkar sounded too mature at first, only to lose his grip later on.

Coming to technical aspects, Bloody Daddy is a complete flat show, except for the background score on some occasions. The cinematography lacks both quality and creativity; the screenplay is monotonous; the action sequences are dragged and outdated; the music is invisible and dry; and the editing is below par. Bloody Daddy highly relies on Ali Abbas Zafar's years old tricks that have become boring nowadays. Even Shahid Kapoor's Kaminey, which came before Ali's debut, had so much more thrill and fineness in the storytelling. You just can't bear the idea of this protagonist in today's times, when everything is traceable and technically advanced. I might prefer Gunday when it comes to the subtext of the pre-action scenes. Bloody Daddy is far too behind in advanced film theories. As a whole, Bloody Daddy is a forcefully made OTT project from a duo that deserved a better big-screen film.