Varun Dhawan’s ’Baby John’ vs Evil Jackie Shroff: Unexpected money lessons from this action-packed thriller

Keerthy Suresh, Wamiqa Gabbi, Sanya Malhotra, Sheeba Chaddha and the precocious child actor Zara Zyanna are all women in Satya Verma aka John’s life. Teach your kids the importance of saving and investing Movie kids can be annoying, because writers toiling away in a writers room are trying to offer us ‘beats’ or tropes that the producers will like. No matter how shiny or glossy a mutual fund looks, learn to examine it Look at the starry lineup of the film - from Keerthy Suresh, Sanya Malhotra to Wamiqa Gabbi, from Jackie Shroff to Prakash Belawadi, Zakir Hussain and Rajpal Yadav, the sharp trailer that promised to catapult the cute lovable Badrinath and Bhediya Varun Dhawan into an action star, the surprising entry of the one and only Bhai jaan, the supposedly ‘cute’ child who calls her father ‘baby’, action and dance numbers that is the mainstay of all ‘South’ films these days - everything that should add up to a wonderful film only makes you wish you had waited for it to show up on Amazon Prime eight weeks later. Varun Dhawan’s comic timing in Bhediya was so good, one wished this film too had utilised that innate quality of the actor.