Another film holding the contentious tag of stealing. Highly motivated from “Death At A Funeral” released in 2007, this star ensemble film is a very poor adaptation of the Original. Publicized as a pleasant comedy, the film falls flat, as it neither has any good comic moments nor any pleasant performances to cheer you up.

Based on a time period of few hours, it starts with the song “Daddy Cool” and then straight away enters the house where a funeral has been arranged. From there on the whole film revolves around various characters visiting the premises to attend the funeral. Each character has his own short story angle, which is supposed to be funny but fails to deliver. The multiplicity of sub-plots used in the narration, have nothing to offer in the name of comedy or entertainment. In fact, at times the forced humor goes overboard to the limits of being called weird and is not able to generate a well laughter.

There is nothing big about any particular half of the film as it keeps on moving at a similar pace all over. And the biggest dissatisfaction comes watching it’s hushed up climax where suddenly everyone undergoes a heart transformation without any reason. The entire star-cast tries hard to make you laugh, but their efforts prove futile, as they are not prepared with a good entertaining script. Among the male lead, Suniel Shetty, Javed Jaffery and Aftab try their best to make you smile but from the ladies it’s only Sophie who stands out with her eye-catching looks.

However, in an otherwise boring attempt by the director K. Murli Mohan Rao, there is one intelligent move of not inserting any songs in the project. The songs are only used in the opening and ending titles of the movie, which comes as a great help for the viewer. The other technical departments also score just average and its really great that the film finishes off in only 2 hours or else it would have been unbearable totally. Moreover, the funeral concept of everyone coming to morn, dressed in their black suits has a very limited appeal for the Indian viewers.

In all, “Daddy Cool” is a very feeble adaptation by the director and also a wrong choice of subject for a Hindi film.

Overall, It’s an average film.