Four adults rush to their family home in Chandigarh. Their favourite parent is no more; the glue that binds them all is gone. The parent left behind is difficult and bitter, unable to fathom the fact that life moves on. Goodbye might have you believe that it's a mainstream version of Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi (2021), Seema Pahwa's beautifully observed drama, rooted in the ritualistic nature of grief - where an untimely death briefly brings together different generations of a distant family under a single roof. All through, a widow grows wary of the performative punctuations of loss. But this comparison is too flattering. If you look closer, Goodbye is nothing but a spiritual sequel of Baghban (2003), arguably the most culturally-entitled Indian melodrama of this century. Consider a universe in which Amitabh Bachchan's character simply grows old, loses his loving wife, and then guilt-trips his adult children for not caring like he does.
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