Coffee with D is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language satirical film directed by Vishal Mishra and produced by Vinod Ramani, starring Sunil Grover and Zakir Husain. Coffee with D was released on 20 January 2017. The film received mixed reviews from critics and failed commercially at the box office.
Plot
Arnab Ghosh is a Senior Editor and news anchor at NB news channel. He hosts a prime-time show, interviewing different people including politicians. Due to low ratings, his boss, Roy, transfers him to a cookery show and asks him to come up with a new idea for another show.
Parul, Arnab's wife, suggests he interviews feared Don/crime boss, D. Arnab and his colleagues shoot fake videos about D, and post them on social media in order to make D angry. He agrees to stop posting the videos after receiving a call from Girdhari, D's CEO, on the condition that D consents to be interviewed. D agrees, while planning to kill Arnab live, during the TV show.
Arnab and his colleagues are brought to a secret location in Karachi by D's men, while two other gangsters arrive at Arnab's home in order to hold his family hostage. Arnab starts the interview, however D does not answer any of the questions correctly. Arnab receives a call from his wife, who asks him not to be a coward, but to prove D wrong. In the last part of the interview, Arnab accuses D of being responsible for terrorist activities, calling him a fraud and not a Don. On hearing this D dies of a heart attack.
Later, at his home, Arnab receives a call from a David Adrees Kaleman, who reveals himself to be D. A flashback shows that D only pretended to die, so that he could leave his original identity and begin a new life. Arnab is happy that there is no longer any persona such as D left in the world.
Cast
Soundtrack
Songs were composed by Superbia band members (Shaan, Gourav Dasgupta, and Roshin Balu). Sameer Anjaan is the lyricist. Dhruv Dhalla provided the background score.
Critical reception
Coffee with D received mixed reviews from critics.
BookMyShow wrote in its review "Sunil Grover, who is otherwise known for his acts in popular TV shows, makes it rather unsettling for the audience to see him play a role this serious initially. He, however, does not disappoint for most part of the film. Zakir Hussain, too, delivers a mindblowing performance as D. It is Pankaj Tripathi who plays D's right-hand man that steals the show with his spot-on comic timing, making us wish we saw more of him." Bollywood Life rated the film 2.5/5, writing "Honestly, I went to watch the movie expecting to kill myself by the end of it. But it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. I had high hopes from Sunil Grover and he lived up to it for most part of the film." Subhash K. Jha also rated the film 2.5/5, writing "Coffee With D is like an unfinished unpolished version of what could have been a rollicking run-in into a ruminative session between Indian’s biggest fugitive and loudest journalist. If only it had been allowed more leg-space to lunge in the lap of the ludicrous." The Times of India rated it 2/5, writing "To make a satire on Dawood Ibrahim is a brave effort, no doubt. But is it a successful effort? Barely."