Anand Tiwari’s ‘Bad Newz’ is a Vicky Kaushal showcase and an easy watch, and not much else

The film stars Vicky Kaushal, Triptii Dimri, Ammy Virk. It needed to be tighter, with more gags and a smoother shift to the dramatic portions.

Vicky Kaushal has played romantic roles earlier, most notably in Manmarziyan. But from the time he burst into public consciousness with Masaan, his career as a leading man has been dominated by drama – or put differently, even his leading men have come off largely like elevated character actors, in films like Uri, Sardar Udham, Sam Bahadur… The wonderful surprise of Bad Newz is that Vicky finally gets to be the traditional, arms-outstretched Hindi cinema hero, along the lines of Shah Rukh Khan of the 1990s/2000s and embodied most recently by Ranveer Singh in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. Vicky plays Akhil, a mama’s boy who falls for a chef named Saloni (Triptii Dimri). Taking his leave after flirting with her, he says, “Nazron se jaa raha hoon… Dil aur dimaag se nahin jaane wala.” This is peak charm, and Vicky plays it at just the right pitch. The sentiment is real but the line is knowingly corny, and we see why Saloni falls hard for him.

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