Badhaai Ho

What is a grown son supposed to do when his middle-aged mother quietly announces she's pregnant? Badhaai Ho (2018) is an Indian comedy-drama from director Amit Sharma that you can watch online on iFILM in high quality.

Nakul is twenty-five, in love, dreaming of starting his own family — and then his parents drop the news. To the neighbors and relatives it's fodder for jokes and side-eyes; to Nakul it's pure mortification in front of his girlfriend and coworkers. The film works through all this without farce, asking calmly why society denies older people any right to intimacy and love.

Ayushmann Khurrana plays the flustered son, while Neena Gupta gives the mother a straight back under everyone's mockery. As the sharp-tongued grandmother, Surekha Sikri took home India's National Film Award for the role. It's a warm, surprisingly tactful comedy about family where the laughter never curdles into ridicule. Great for fans of grounded Indian cinema that doesn't lean on song-and-dance for its own sake. Stream Badhaai Ho (2018) online on iFILM.