Bad Newz(2024)
After a whirlwind marriage with social media influencer Akhil Chadha that ends in divorce, chef Saloni Bagga meets hotelier Gurbir Pannu. One night with Gurbir – and then also with Akhil – leads to Saloni getting pregnant. But who's the father? By a one-in-a-billion twist of fate, Saloni is carrying twins – and not just any twins, each child has a different father!
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Prime Video
- Theatrical Release
- 19 July 2024
- Director
- Anand Tiwari
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Rating
- 6.0/10
Storyline
A chef named Saloni gets divorced from a social media influencer. She then meets a hotelier and has a night with him, but also has a night with her ex-husband. She gets pregnant and discovers she's having twins, with the shocking twist that each twin has a different father.
“Two exes. One pregnancy. A double dose of daddy drama.”
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Frequent partnerships reunited for Bad Newz
Cast reunions in this film: Karan Johar & Ananya Panday (4 films together), and Karan Johar & Vicky Kaushal (2 films together).
Trivia
- The film is an official remake of the 2022 Telugu movie 'Thank You', which itself was inspired by a real medical case of heteropaternal superfecundation.
- Director Anand Tiwari and actor Vicky Kaushal previously worked together on the 2018 Netflix anthology film 'Lust Stories'.
- The movie's plot is based on an extremely rare but real biological phenomenon where twins can have two different biological fathers.
- This is one of the few major Hindi films where the lead actress, Triptii Dimri, plays a character who is a professional chef.
- The film's promotional campaign highlighted its unique premise by using split-screen visuals and dual-themed posters to represent the two potential fathers.
- Composer-singer Amit Trivedi, known for his eclectic soundtracks, returned to collaborate with director Anand Tiwari after their work on the series 'Mismatched'.
- Despite being a comedy, the film incorporates brief explanatory graphics to help audiences understand the complex medical situation at the heart of the story.