Director: Umesh Shukla
Writers: Umesh Shukla, Sumit Arora
Stars: Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin
Strength: Acting, Enjoyable First Half
Weakness: Long Runtime, Subpar Story
Runtime: 156 minutes
Rating: 1.5/5

Plot: A musician finds himself on the run from a group of thugs with his friend and his estranged parents.

Review: The protagonist of All Is Well is the perennially grouchy Inder Bhalla, a Himachal Pradesh baker's son who has had a choppy childhood and trusts nobody and nothing in this world. He has lived in Thailand for a decade to pursue a career in the music industry but has yet to find his big break. Inder flies back to his hometown Kasol at the behest of Cheema (Zeeshan Mohammad Ayyub), a bumbling thug, to sort out a tangle related to the failed bakery run by his father, Bhajanlal Bhalla (Rishi Kapoor). On the same flight is Nimmi (Asin), who is madly in love with the commitment-phobic Inder but is headed back home to get hitched to another man. Back in Kasol, Bhalla owes the goon lakhs of rupees. The latter wants to grab the bakery but Bhalla will have none of it. A wild goose chase ensues across Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, with the Bhallas and Nimmi in a red convertible and Cheema and his henchmen in a police vehicle.

The rest of the film, the more sluggish stretches included, is passably watchable. Director Umesh Shukla switches frequently from breezy slapstick comedy to intense family drama and does so relatively smoothly until about the last quarter of the two-hour film. The climax of All Is Well is both overly contrived and cringingly preachy. In short, this is a terrible movie and can only be recommended if one has absolutely nothing else to do with their time.

Reviewed by Intisab Shahriyar