Badhaai Ho reviewed.

There are very few movie-makers that manage to highlight and capture the contemporary middle class lifestyle of DILLI successfully.

Amit Sharma is one of them. He directs this humble and novel script almost to perfection. The editing could have been a little more suave in the second half but what the hell. Gajraj Rao, Neena Gupta and Surekha Sikri are the highlights of this wonderful warm film. The delicacy of relations and the social pressures go hand in hand for the Kaushiks (without an apostrophe). It all fits in. The mangoes, the 13.5 year old wagon R, the way Hindi is spoken and the way love is portrayed. A MOMENT OF PASSION results into a social catastrophe for the Kaushiks. And suddenly, everything turns topsy-turvy. Relations are tested. Truth is told. But in the end, all is well that ends well. Gajraj Rao hits it out of the park with his performance. The man makes you cry single handedly with his mind blowing timing and the delicacy of emotions portrayed. Neena Gupta and Surekha Sikri are also very subtle and very controlled. Portraying emotions on screen is most difficult and these 2 ladies do it just like that. Hats off to them.

Ayushmann breezes through his character as the DILII ka launda with ease, partially because he plays himself. He does what he does best; smiles a lot. The Badhaai Ho team has delivered a lovely film; like a warm bear hug on a winter morning. It has it's heart in the right place.