Rishi Kapoor is Mr Bhalla, a local bakery owner at a hill station called Kasol in Himachal Pradesh, India. Abhishek Bachchan plays his son, Inder, who leaves his family behind and heads to Bangkok after Mr Bhalla's insistence that he join him in the family business and help him run the bakery. In Bangkok, Inder does musical gigs to earn money while running after producers in a hope that somebody will launch his album.
Just when a producer asks him for money he gets a call from home: from a goon Cheema, posing as a lawyer, who tells him to come home to take his share after selling his father's bakery. When Inder reaches Kasol, he finds out that Mr Bhalla has taken a huge loan from Cheema and in order to pay it back, the father-son duo must sign some papers and hand over the bakery to him. But Mr Bhalla refuses to sign the papers and in that case, how they intend to pay back Cheema forms the gist of the story.
During an interview with an Indian media before the release of All Is Well, Abhishek Bachchan had said, "There is a message that we want to give in a very subtle manner." The only message he has managed to give out with his performance in the movie is that he can't act, that too, in a not-so-subtle way.
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Not that the other actors are any better. There is no denying that Rishi Kapoor is a charmer but you won't get to see even a pinch of that charm in the movie. He just takes up a lot of space, literally, and at times, is blatantly in your face. Even the supremely talented Supriya Pathak as the dementia-afflicted Pammi, Mr Bhalla's wife and Inder's mother, is annoying with all her head shaking and gurgling noise making. If she had had a decent line to deliver, then maybe she would have been bearable but no, all she has in the name of dialogues are 'Yeh aap kya kar rahe hain', 'Nahi beta ruk jao', and 'Jao usse le aao.'
Then there's Asin as Nimmi, a girl hopelessly in love with Inder for no reason whatsoever, who clutches her copy of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne even when she's running away from goons and believes in signs when there are none.
The music is forgettable, comedy barely tolerable, and drama unmentionable. Even during a car chase, they make frequent stops – Mr Bhalla needs to pee every five minutes, and have meals at dhabas along the way where he instructs Inder to bring huge portions of food because 'Bhallas mu se nahi, dil se khate hain.' And since Inder's credit card isn't accepted at the dhaba (surprise, surprise!), he performs in an item number with Sonakshi Sinha in exchange for the food.
The dialogues are atrocious. Whoever wrote it must have done so half asleep or the characters must have just made up the lines along the way, in the absence of a decent scriptwriter. To make things worse, everything is predictable and the story is so choppy that after sitting through the movie for two hours, you will find yourself rearranging the scenes in your head, if you still have the energy left to be bothered, that is.
The movie switches from light slapstick comedy to intense family drama and turns increasingly bizarre as it moves from one fracas to the next, till it eventually ends with a song: Hafte main char shanibar hona chahiye, making you wish for another Saturday after having completely ruined yours watching a movie so utterly disappointing and ridiculous.
Film: All Is Well
Director: Umesh Shukla
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Supriya Pathak, Asin, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
