2018 · comedy · drama
Badhaai Ho
Directed by Amit Sharma2h 5m2018
A 25-year-old man tries to suppress his embarrassment when his mother announces that she is pregnant.
Our read: Badhaai Ho (2018) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
- funny
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