WHEN IT RELEASED IN December 2019, Good Newwz was anything but for Dr Jatin Shah’s fertility and IVF clinic at Grant Road in Mumbai. Bollywood’s goto doc for surrogacy, who counts Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar and Sohail Khan among his clients, Shah found himself reassuring anxious couples who wondered if their sperm too, like in Raj Mehta’s comedy of errors, had gone to someone else. Starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Akshay Kumar, Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Advani, Good Newwz follows the woes of two couples whose lives are upturned by a goofup in a fertility clinic. Shah’s patients, though, did not find the prospect funny at all.
Good Newwz grossed Rs 196 crore at the box office. But it’s not the only pregnancy centric flick to have caught people’s attention—and rake in the moolah too. A year earlier, Badhaai Ho had audiences hooked with its bitter sweet storyline of a 50some thing woman’s (played by Neena Gupta) accidental pregnancy becoming a source of embarrassment for her 20something son (Ayush mann Khurrana) and fodder for gossip among neighbours and relatives. And 2021, in particular, was surprisingly fertile for pregnancy scripts, as Kriti Sanon starred in Mimi, a Netflix film in which a young surrogate’s life gets upended when her foreign sponsors change their mind about having a child; Taapsee Pannu’s sprinter doesn’t let pregnancy be a hurdle in her athletic ambitions in Rashmi Rocket on ZEE5; Nushrratt Bharuccha plays an expectant mother who battles ghosts and orthodox mindsets in the horror movie Chhorii on Amazon Prime.
This story is from the May 16, 2022 edition of India Today.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the May 16, 2022 edition of India Today.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
Falling Back On Ram
It’s not new from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by ‘Ram bhakt’ Arvind Kejriwal, but worth noting because god is in the details. It was Ram Navami on April 17.
Congress 'EQ' Vs BJP ‘IQ'
Team Modi Is Riding On Its Assembly Poll Momentum, But The Congress's Clever Candidate Mix May Prevent A Washout
The Macallan M 2023 debuts in India
Standing as a pinnacle of exclusivity, The Macallan M 2023 graces the shores of India with limited 10 handpicked bottles for whisky aficionados
Give it up for the science bros
They've got brains, brawn and billions in the bank. A new breed of wellness guru is doing for men what Gwyneth Paltrow did for women.
LIVING BY THE RULES
Chetan Bhagat returns to non-fiction with his new book-11 Rules for Life
The Mysterious City
Anuradha Kumar's The Kidnapping of Mark Twain paints an intriguing portrait of Bombay around the time of the American writer's visit
GOWDA KNOWS
Hot Stage, the third book in Anita Nair's Inspector Gowda mystery series, is here
WITH OUR OWN DESI SLEUTHS
Indian detective fiction gets its due in this massive, two-volume compilation from Hachette
PRIVATE PARADISE
Your home may well be your haven, but here are easy ways to make it your very own spa-dom.
Subversive IN SUBURBIA
A MONTH-LONG SHOW AT ART AND CHARLIE, MUMBAI, SHOWCASING THE WORKS OF POONAM JAIN AND YOGESH BARVE POSES SEVERAL QUESTIONS TO THE VIEWER