Breakfast: Accept the Reality Movie Review : A messy drama with too little depth

Breakfast: Accept the Reality Movie Synopsis: Rishab and Lakshmi, a couple on the verge of divorce, visit a marriage counsellor Gangadevi during their divorce proceedings. The latter narrates them a story hoping it will help the estranged couple reflect on their relationship.

Breakfast: Accept the Reality Movie Review: Breakfast is exhausting and unfunny as it treats serious themes like divorce, counselling and emotional healing with carelessness and lack of sensitivity. On paper, the idea of parallel relationship arcs tied together sounds promising. But the execution is so scattered that it becomes difficult to invest in either story.

The film expects us to empathise with characters who it barely bothers to give any scope to. The lead couple, Shantanu, the sole breadwinner of his family who takes care of his ageing parents, and Jhanvi, written as a spoilt rich girl with little emotional depth, are reduced to caricatures rather than characters. Their conflicts seem manufactured.

Raanav struggles to pull off his role, especially in emotional scenes, while Rosmin Thadathil fares slightly better. The supporting cast consists of reliable actors who do the best with what they have been given. The dialogues do the film no favours. The English lines sound more corny than conversational. There are also sexist and problematic scenes that feel dated and shouldn't have been part of a movie made in 2026.

Sensitive physical evidence linked to a crime is casually passed around to ordinary people, and the screenplay expects viewers to accept such absurdities without question. These inconsistencies make the film feel even less convincing.

There are fleeting sparks in the film, especially in the characterisations. The addition of Jhanvi having an understanding stepmother or the divorce counsellor also being a Censor Board member becomes mildly interesting in an otherwise dull film.

Even the music lacks life. Breakfast does try to experiment with camera work here and there. But these technical touches do not help a film without a believable and emotional core. The film ends up as a tonally confused drama with little emotional depth.