Happy Review: Abhishek Bachchan dance, but story trips
Be happy, promise an emotional father-daughter story but stumbled with a half-ripe story and forecasted trops. Abhishek Bachchan gave a heartfelt demonstration, but even he cannot save this deficiency dance-drama. Weak story makes it forgetable within the scope of OTT material.

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Abhishek Bachchan
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Release date: March 14, 2025
For someone who loves a good old -fashioned story of existence against all obstacles, where everything gets better until the end, a film is just above my street like Prime Video B Happy. A small child with large dreams, a angry single father, a calm/funny grandfather, and a personal crisis that changes the father-daughter relationship, which leads to lots of tears and later smiles. If I had one rupee for every Bollywood film about emotionally distant father with my child, I would be enough to make another.
The same old conspiracy
It revolves around a Dhara (Inat Verma), who wants to go to Mumbai to join his Maggi teacher (Nora Fatehi) dance school. “A pap talk from the father -in -law changes how he feels about transferring cities. Just when the dreams of the younger earth begin to come true, his world crashes. Now, the father is determined to move the mountains for his daughter:” The main is the main one to fall his daughter. (I will not let my daughter fall).
The first half of the film is a snoochfest. Given this, I wondered, was it always for OTT, or the film’s director, co-writer, and producer Remo D’Suza realized that a half-baked story was not worth a dramatic release? The only relief, if you are looking for one, then the curvy of the stream excavates his ‘Khadodos’ father.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neapkeqvj4w
The film is a trademark Remo D’Souza film: high emotions, many dance sequences, a song dedicated to Lord Ganesha, and a climax on the stage of a dance competition. While nothing is wrong with such a template, is the Bollywood contracted to continue this formula again forever?
At a time when it takes a boring sequence for an audience, which is with a duration of paying attention to turn to its phone, is it not late for filmmakers to feel that a lazy effort in filmmaking will not take them to the audience, especially on the OTT?
The second half begins on a promising note. It wants to give a message: To please the people around you, you first need to be happy from within. If you are an emotional person, you can also shed some tears when a “life-changing crisis” hits Shiva and Dhara. But when you feel that the film is about to collect speed, it crushes your hopes.
Like Abhishek’s last release, I want to talk, it also has a Johnny Lever Cameo. But unlike Shujit Sirkar, Remo looks uncertain as to use how to use and ruined a good resource.
A dance-drain
What is bad? The film does not have a single dance sequence or a song, which we are sold as “dance-drama”, stays with you, not even after finishing. With no real substance and depth in the story, you start thinking, “This kab khatamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

One later: It is disappointing to see a good performance, in this case Abhishek Bachchan and Inayat Verma are being married to a poor storytelling. Abhishek is actually a symbol of the role of a distressed father who wants to fulfill his daughter’s dream, while he needs to focus on his studies. Giving him to all of you, you cannot help, but wonder ‘Is this actor not worth the better script to do justice to his craft?’
After watching The Happy Trailer, I expected a simple, slice-off-life film about families, father and daughters and their struggles. Sadly, the story of the film was surrounded by those two-minute-and-18-second.
1.5 out of 5 stars to be happy.