Daddy Cool Movie Reviews

Everything seems to be borrowed in Daddy Cool. The film's title is taken from a Boney M number that everyone jived to in the 1980s and which is rather carelessly inserted in an uninspiring track. And much of the film is a photocopy of Death at a Funeral, a zany 2007 comedy recently doing the rounds on a movie channel. What works partially in the movie's favour is its high-pitched, manic energy. Director K Murli Mohan Rao doesn't really let the pace slacken in the first half

Not all English films can be adapted for the Indian screen. Also, the remake may not necessarily be as interesting as the original. That's what you realize when you watch the Hindi version of DEATH AT A FUNERAL called DADDY COOL. Sadly, DADDY COOL is just not cool. Plenty of reasons why...One, this supposedly laugh riot fails to tickle your funny bone, barring in a scene or two. Two, the concept is more suited for a play. Setting an entire film on one location

British comedy occupies a unique space and attempting to copy it into a Bollywood film, peopled by a collection of non-actors, is a travesty. To top it off, Tushar Hiranandani takes credit for story and screenplay when Daddy Cool is a frame-by-frame remake of Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral. Surely, the decent thing would have been to say 'adapted by'.

If the sight of Javed Jaffrey pulling down Prem Chopra's blue boxer shorts and helping him onto a toilet seat doesn't make you sick, then a close-up of his hand covered in Chopra's shit most definitely will. Daddy Cool, directed by K Murali Mohan Rao, is a crude remake of the British comedy, Death At A Funeral, but in this film the laughs are hard to come by. The action's centered around a group of assorted relatives and friends who gather at the home of a recently departed chap