All is Well is a waste of money. Supposed family entertainer does not have a well written script. The movie revolves around the life of a dysfunctional family. The main plot is Bhalla family (Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan and Supriya Pathak ) being debt ridden by a goon and plan to run away from him by going on a road trip. In the end all the family members resolve their issues with each other with the help of Nimmi (Asin – Abhishek’s love interest in the film), who believes in the ideas of the book ‘The Secret’.  It is a nonsensical film where only thing which is entertaining is Sonakshi Sinha’s item song.

All Is Well, directed by Umesh Shukla, has been touted as a 'journey within', but it has little meat to do justice to that tag. Sumit Arora and Niren Bhatt's story is grunt-worthy at best and patience-testing otherwise. Consistency of the plot is bid a goodbye to in certain scenes. One example that is quite an eyesore in the film is the miraculous appearance of Inder's scarf during a scene when he's shouldering a corpse, when the previous scene did not have it. Inder is irked by his father's need to urinate every half hour, but doesn't mind dancing in a dhaba with goons at their heels. Certain scenes are genuinely funny, though, and Ayyub's comic timing deserves the praise for that. Sanjay Sankla's scissors are mighty blunt, and the film seems to stretch on to eternity in two hours. The makers of All Is Well have paid more-than-necessary attention to William Blake's 'eternity in an hour', it seems. Among the few songs in the film, Ae Mere Humsafar and Baaton Ko are hummable and quite decent. All Is Well uses the tagline 'All Is NOT Well' while breaking for the intermission. That's what is the matter with the entire film. Watch it only if you have nothing better to do.

All is far from well with All Is Well, but this road trip dramedy has just about enough impetus not to be thrown completely off its chosen track by its occasional inertia. Director Umesh Shukla switches frequently from breezy slapstick comedy to intense family drama and does so relatively smoothly until about the last quarter of the two-hour film. The climax of All Is Well, which centres on its Bangkok-returned singer-hero mending fences with his long estranged dad and his cruelly cold-shouldered girlfriend, is both overly contrived and cringingly preachy. The rest of the film, the more sluggish stretches included, is passably watchable. The lightweight screenplay does not provide the actors with sufficient room to go the whole hog. Yet Rishi Kapoor hits a few out of the park and Zeeshan is delightfully rib-tickling at times. All Is Well is obviously built on the myth of Shravan Kumar, celebrated for his devotion to his parents, ends with two weddings, one planned out to the last detail, the other accidental but facilely opportune. For audiences that are disposed towards accepting the kind of climactic twists that All Is Well fabricates - the most ridiculous of which is saved for the very last - the film might pass muster as a one-time watch. For everyone else, it would be too much to digest even at a generous stretch. Be that as it may, All Is Well is, well, anything but a completely squandered effort.

Shukla, as a director, tries far too hard, taking good actors and forcing them into hammy performances. There's nothing wrong with broad comedy. There's nothing wrong with cartoonish characters. There's nothing wrong with preposterous, senseless situations. The only requirement is that the film make you laugh. All Is Well spends two hours desperately tickling the audience but the overall impact is one of torture. There is even a sudden item song where the robust Sonakshi Sinha mouths words like Main nacha parathe kha ke. Easy to believe, certainly, but hard indeed to comprehend. It's a tell-tale gesture; This isn't encouragement, it's a fine actor giving up on a bad film. Rishi Kapoor's tapping out.

‘All Is Well’ is an incredibly badly made film. I can’t remember the last time I have watched something as insipid, boring and torturous. The jokes fall flat, the emotions are contrived, the dialogue is pedestrian and the romance tepid - even the lone item number can’t lift one’s spirits (if indeed it is the spirit that such songs uplift). This over two-hour-long ordeal makes ‘Tees Maar Khan’, ‘Housefull’ and the ‘Golmaal’ franchise look like runaway entertainers. There is little to say about the flimsy plot, which is based on the hackneyed dysfunctional father-and-son relationship. The thing about Bollywood films these days is that, despite lousy scripts and wafer-thin characterization, filmmakers somehow manage to dish out a stylish and watchable end product. The gaana bajaana, the lavish sets and raunchy item numbers somewhat make up for the ticket price. Tragically, ‘All Is Well’ provides no such respite. Nothing compensates for the shoddiness of this enterprise - not even having veterans Chintu Kapoor and Supriya Pathak on board. The half star rating is solely for the audacity of the filmmakers who think that the audience would lap up any godforsaken trite that they put out – such conviction too takes courage, however unsettling it may be for the handful that walk into the theatres. Watch ‘All Is Well’ only if you want to feel my pain.

Filmmaker Umesh Shukla is best known for his terrific entertainer 'OMG – Oh My God!'. But if you think ( like I did) that 'All Is Well' will be something similar then you better be ready for an eyewash. The director has tried his best but it is the script which lets it loose. The whole journey from there is interesting in bits and parts. The father-son bond between Abhishek and Rishi appeals but had the script been more tight, it would have been a different story all together. Asin is seen after a long time on-screen, so it feels nice and fresh to see her. The chemistry between Inder and Nimmi is just fine. Abhishek is the modern day Shravan Kumar in the film. Music by Himesh Reshammiya, Amaal Mallik, Meet Bros Anjjan and Mithoon is peppy and a treat to the ears. The bigger problem for the viewer is the fact that there is a prominent continuity issue in the film. If in one scene we have Abhishek in a bearded look then in another he is a different person, per say. Reason? Well, the film was short over a period of two years—may be that's where it comes from. Our verdict? Go and watch it only for the great actors who are in the film. All can be well, if you read this and then go for the 'masala' potboiler!