‘Kalidhar Missing’ Review: Abhishek Bachchan and Divine Baghela pair unmatched, but the story weakened

Updated: 04-07-2025, 01.24 PM

What is news?

Abhishek Bachchan was last seen in the film ‘Housefull 5’, in which his comic timing was praised. For the past several days, he was in the news for the film ‘Kalidhar Lapata’, which has now finally come among the audience. The film is streaming on the OTT platform Zee5. The enthusiasm of the audience about his film increased only when its trailer was released. Let’s know how this new film of Abhishek is.

Story

The story revolves around Kalidhar’s life

The film is woven around Kalidhar (Abhishek), which makes his siblings grow up, but as soon as his illness is known, the householders leave him in Kumbh in the greed of the property. When Kalidhar comes to know that his family wants to leave him instead of getting treatment, he himself goes away from him. Then he meets an orphaned child Ballu (divine Baghela) and his life completely changes.

acting

Abhishek and Divine are top numbers in performance

Abhishek has done full justice with his character. They can be passed with respect for this. On the other hand, 8 years of divine is amazing. His best acting speaks his character. The biggest surprise of the film is divine, which does not prove to be nineteen anywhere ahead of Abhishek. Daivik and Abhishek’s chemistry is the life of this film. On the other hand, the role of Nimrat Kaur and Zeeshan Ayub did not get a chance to bloom.

Directing

Director disappointed

‘Kalidhar’ is a Hindi remake of the Tamil film ‘KD’. Director Madhumita served the same story to Hindi audience. The character, language and age have changed. The director failed to mold supporting artists into the right characters. The story is very weak. The script from above is more poor than that. It seems that Madhumita will have to attend many schools. Overall, he has just done ‘Kalidhar’ of ‘KD’. She has missed making a good entertaining Hindi film.

Deficiencies

What are the shortcomings?

The rest of the characters like Zeeshan Ayub have been visited to focus on Abhishek and Divine. Lack of entertainment is missed. Dialogues are also very moving. The film is also weak on the writing front. It is good that it was brought directly to OTT, as it can be seen only in pieces. It is not a film to hold 2 hours. Actually, the seed of the film is so weak that just what to say ..!

conclusion

Watch the movie or not?

Why see?- The great reason for watching the film is Abhishek and Daivik’s acting. Apart from him, nothing is worth watching in the film. If you are sitting empty, you can give it a chance.
Why not see?- There is not a single scene of this film of 1 hour and 50 minute, which seems that the original is different from the Tamil film or gives some new experience to the audience of North India.
Newsbights Star- 1.5/5