Dada follows the story of a final year student becoming a dad unexpectedly and his struggles with handling the kid and his rocky relationship with his girlfriend. The story does have a feel good factor to it that slowly begins to embrace you as the drama unfolds further. The screenplay standing at about 135 minutes does make for a breezy and heartwarming watch.

The drama does open with the introduction of the protagonist and his girlfriend who are in advanced levels of their relationship. And quite honestly, I did feel that the writing falters here straight up. Ideally, I would have liked a little bit of world building to the drama and how the protagonist met his girlfriend and what did form the basis of their relationship. What this would have done is have a massive impact towards the latter part of the drama. So the opening is a little indifferent and it did take me sometime to be invested in the drama.

But once the actually drama begins after the conflict, the proceedings are interesting and engrossing. This has a lot to do with the character arc of the protagonist which is quite well defined leading up to a transformation. The vibe of the drama is always light and breezy and it never really gets melodramatic. In fact, the drama does contribute to several heartwarming moments in the screenplay. My only minor complaint was that they could have shown the father and son bond a little more before diverting attention to the work life of the protagonist.

I did like how the drama at about the halfway mark did have a recall value of the beginning. And here is where my point of world building at the beginning would have paid dividends here. The simple conflicts coupled with the subtle yet predictable twists and turns do add to the vibe of the drama nicely. The final act leading up to the resolution is quite good thereby summing up a screenplay which is predictable but supremely heartwarming and has its heart in the right place.