Bad Newz (film)

Bad Newz
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anand Tiwari
Written by	Ishita Moitra Tarun Dudeja
Produced by	Karan Johar Hiroo Yash Johar Apoorva Mehta Amritpal Singh Bindra Anand Tiwari
Starring	Vicky Kaushal Triptii Dimri Ammy Virk
Cinematography	Debojeet Ray
Edited by	Shan Mohammed
Music by	Songs: Rochak Kohli Vishal Mishra DJ Chetas-Lijo George Prem-Hardeep Karan Aujla Abhijeet Srivastava Score: Amar Mohile
Production companies	Dharma Productions Leo Media Collective Amazon Prime
Distributed by	AA Films
Release date	19 July 2024 (2024-07-19)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	est. ₹36.22 crore

Bad Newz is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Anand Tiwari. Produced by Amazon Prime, Dharma Productions and Leo Media Collective, the film inspired by true events stars Vicky Kaushal, Triptii Dimri, and Ammy Virk. It is a spiritual sequel to Good Newwz (2019), and revolves around heteropaternal superfecundation, a reproductive process in which twins are born to the same mother, but from different biological fathers. The film was theatrically released on 19 July 2024.

Plot

A young woman Saloni Bagga is a chef who dreams to have her restaurant win the Miraki Star. She meets Akhil Chadda and they hit it off immediately and get married soon. However, soon problems arise in their marriage, one of which causes her to restaurant to lose their Miraki star and subsequently get her fired. As a result of these problems, the couple gets divorced. Saloni relocates to Mussourie to work at a restaurant owned by Gurbir Pannu. After a chain of events, Saloni lands up having a one night stand with Gurbir. Same night, Akhil shows up at her room, wanting her back and they end up sleeping together as well. As result of these encounters, Saloni gets pregnant. After doing paternity test to determine the baby’s father, she realizes that she is pregnant with twins. To make matters worse, she is told that as a result of a very rare phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation , the twins have different fathers. This follows a funny chain of events where both men try to prove that they would respectively make a better partner and a father. During once such event, Saloni faints due to stress. She is admitted and the doctor reveals that Gurbir’s baby isn’t growing well but Akhil’s baby is growing normally and waiting longer to deliver the babies will cause Gurbir’s baby to not survive. In these circumstances, Akhil makes a selfless decision to deliver the babies right away since it would give them both a chance to survive. Luckily the delivery goes well and Saloni delivers two healthy babies and is fine herself as well. When she realizes the selfless decision Alkhil made, she is touched. In the end she asks Akhil to marry her again which he accepts and Gurbir gets back together with his ex-girlfriend. They all decide to raise the babies together and Saloni’s restaurant wins a Miraki star.

Cast

• Vicky Kaushal as Akhil Chadha
• Triptii Dimri as Saloni Bagga
• Ammy Virk as Gurbir Singh Pannu
• Neha Dhupia as Ma Corona, Saloni’s aunt
• Sheeba Chaddha as Vishni Chadha, Akhil's mother
• Faisal Rashid as Doctor Baweja
• Khayali Ram as Sukhi Mama
• Guneet Singh Sodhi as Harman Sathija
• Kamlesh Kumari as Teji
• Navin Kaushik as Panama Cafe Manager
• Harnek Aulak as Amardeep Bagga
• Vijaylaxmi Singh as Sunita Bagga
• Mahabir Singh Bhuller as Darzi
• Shayank Shukla as Golu
• Deepak Anand as Rifleman
• Santosh Kumar as Piano Player
• Ananya Panday as Herself (special appearance)
• Neha Sharma as Sejal, Gurbir's ex-girlfriend (cameo appearance)
• Gajraj Rao as Himself (special appearance)

Production

Development

The films' arrival post production was announced on March 2024 by Karan Johar which was initially titled Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam, and was later changed to Bad Newz.

Filming

Principal photography commenced in March 2022. Production was wrapped in July 2023.

Music

Bad Newz
Soundtrack album by Rochak Kohli, Vishal Mishra, Lijo George-DJ Chetas, Prem-Hardeep, Karan Aujla and Abhijeet Srivastava
Released	17 July 2024
Recorded	2023–24
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	24:34
Language	Hindi
Label	Saregama
Official audio
Bad Newz (Audio Jukebox) on YouTube

The music of the film is composed by Rochak Kohli, Vishal Mishra, Lijo George-DJ Chetas, Prem-Hardeep, Karan Aujla and Abhijeet Srivastava while the background score is composed by Amar Mohile. The first single titled "Tauba Tauba" was released on 2 July 2024. The second single titled "Jaanam" was released on 9 July 2024. The third single titled "Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam" was a remix of the original song from the 1998 film, Duplicate (orginally composed by Anu Malik) and was released on 14 July 2024.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Tauba Tauba"	Karan Aujla	Yeah Proof	Karan Aujla	3:27
2.	"Jaanam"	Vishal Mishra	Vishal Mishra	Vishal Mishra	3:18
3.	"Rabb Warga"	Shayra Apoorva	Abhijeet Srivastava	Jubin Nautiyal	2:35
4.	"Haule Haule"	Gurpreet Saini, Gautam G. Sharma	Rochak Kohli	Jubin Nautiyal	3:32
5.	"Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam"	Javed Akhtar	Lijo-DJ Chetas	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	3:02
6.	"Raula Raula"	Davvy Singh	Prem-Hardeep	Prem-Hardeep, Romy	2:54
7.	"Haule Sajna" (Ammy Virk Version)	Gurpreet Saini, Gautam G. Sharma	Rochak Kohli	Ammy Virk	2:55
8.	"Rabb Warga" (Neeti Mohan Version)	Shayra Apoorva	Abhijeet Srivastava	Neeti Mohan	2:51
Total length:					24:34

Release

Theatrical

After multiple date changes and other delays, Bad Newz was theatrically released on 19 July 2024.

External links

• Bad Newz at IMDb
• Bad Newz at Bollywood Hungama