Goodbye (2022) Subtitles

Goodbye is an average study on grief and bereavement marred by shallow characterisation and treatment
Writer-director Vikas Bahl explores how different people have different ways of coping with grief
The plot: When Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) loses his wife Gayatri (Neena Gupta), he doesn’t have any shoulder to cry upon.
Having missed the last phone call from her mother, his advocate daughter Tara (Rashmika Mandanna) is angry and the fact that she sees no logic in these rituals only adds to it
Bahl attempts a tearjerker by combining the two templates, and it fails only to make us appreciate the craft of the likes of Mohan Kumar and Ravi Chopra who made us shed copious tears
Bachchan holds the film together with his time-tested capacity to move the audience with even facile stuff
What irks one the most is the lecturing tone to explain the value of rituals and how science and faith can coexist