 Mirthful dramas with shorter duration – Flicks tagged with this pattern are surely to win over audiences’ appreciations. Thanks to Boney M for the title ‘Daddy Cool’ and Frank Oz’s ‘Death at a funeral’ for inspiring Murli to offer a new-prototyped flick.
The film boasts about rich-decent inviting ridicules through the most comical guests making their presence.
So, what can happen at a funeral? Even, if it's the funeral of Daddy Cool Douglas Lazarus? It's in Goa, tears, sad speeches, melancholia... right? Wrong! When... The coffin makers deliver the wrong body.
Good Son Steven Lazarus (Sunil Shetty), an aspiring writer tries to give his father a decent funeral by delivering a eulogy…that includes a description of the rivers of Goa. Having flown in first class younger brother Brian (Ashish Chowdhary), suave, successful and much admired writer from Mumbai, not ready to share responsibility for his mother, saying "He barely has money to support himself and his dogs." A rather "comfortable'' estate agent Pinto (Vijay Patkar) tries to close a house deal for Nancy (Aarti Chabbria) Steven's wife who is trying to get away from her mother-in-law Mrs. Lazarus (Suhasini Mulay) , who though just bereaved, lives up to her title admirably.
A prospective groom Michael (Aftab Shivadsani) to a cousin, Maria (Tulip Joshi), nervous about meeting father-in-law to be (Naseer Abdullah ) comes in completely spaced out because of a hallucinogenic drug given to him out of Maria's junkie brother Harry's (Chunky Pandey) bottle of "Relaxo."
A knife-wielding suspicious Jenny (Kim Sharma) finds her husband Carlos (Javed Jaffrey) pleading forgiveness from the red- hot model Ayesha (Sophie Chodhry). While the model, told to bestow her favors on a man in a black suit, in order to feature in an ad film, finds her in a room full of potential employers.
A repulsive spit on hands and flick back hair, Roadside Romeo kind of aspiring boyfriend, Jim (Vrajesh Hirjee) thinks that even a funeral is an opportunity to impress Maria.
 A doddering old Uncle Murphy (Prem Chopra) in a wheelchair believes in practicing "rap chick" to get the girls...
And then enters a "Blackmailer" Andrew (Rajpal Yadav) who has a scandalous secret about the deceased Douglas "Daddy Cool" Lazarus (Sharat Saxena).
So what does happen is complete mélange of madness, chaos, and a laugh a minute! So is it a 'fun'eral? Or should we say the fun is real?
One thing you should make up in your mind prior watching this show. Don’t bring ‘Comparabilities’ into picture from ‘Death at a funeral’. Perhaps, leave behind your cognizance as well.
Lots of reasoning wouldn’t supposedly help in enjoying the fun-filled drama. But there are few diminishing factors that’ll break off your mind-sets of enjoying the show. Say like, foul-spoken uncle may not be an entertaining part for family audiences. First-half is brimmed with more entertaining parts while there’s a feel of watching a play in second half. But as it proceeds towards penultimate sequences, things back in action propelling laughter.
Sunil Shetty stands out for the proficient performance while others lack perfection on their show. They look so caricatured instead of spelling on right note.
Background score is quite enjoyable and couple of songs makes the film yet more passable.
On whole, ‘Daddy Cool’ is more off assuredness that can be watched once.
Verdict: Passable show
Rating : **
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