Directed by: Rohit Shetty
Starring: Ajay Devgn, Abhishek
Bachchan, Asin, Prachi Desai
Released: 2012
Verdict: destroy every
copy – horrible – bad – whatever – flawed but enjoyable -
good – great – amazing
Bol Bachchan is a really
phunny philm. Working with ever popular formula of lies, lies and
more lies creating confusion and more confusion, very much like
another phunny philm earlier this year (the one about a house being full), but it actually has a bit of
a plot and smaller number of characters which makes it less memory
demanding.
Abbas and Sania, a Muslim
brother and sister, are forced to take refuge with a family friend in
a small town, which is prospering under landlord Prithviraj, a man of
muscles and a heart that loves truth above everything else. Try to
lie to him even a little and thou shalt know what pain is. Then again
this is all rather unfortunate since he is very easy to lie to, as
Abbas finds out soon enough, as circumstances make him to do just
that. And later he is too scared of Prithviraj and starts making more
and more lies, which are good enough to satisfy the landlord, but at
the same time give a terrible headache to Abbas, Sania and a whole
bunch of other people who get involved. A concept very simple, but
executed with lots of freshness (and did that stage play near the end
crack me up).
Abhishek Bachchan redeemed
himself after the atrocity he served us this January and confirmed
yet again he is a very pleasant actor who needs to be presented more
as a common man than a genius super-cop/super-con. Also multistarrers
do him good, at least those that have another strong performer (here
it is Ajay Devgn) to pretty much „complete“ him on screen (how
effin´ good they both looked beating up an army of goondas – twice
- without even getting sweat stains?). Ajay has always been projected
more as an action hero, at least as far as I know, but lately he has
been using his great comic sense as well, and as an English-loving
yet totally messing up meaning of words and thus delivering some
hilarious one-liners (A brother in need is a sister indeed! My eyes
have fallen from my face!) macho landlord he rules. For me he stole
the show, though Abhishek too has moments of utter brilliance. His
notorious gay act, that worked for him so much in Dostana, and
actually seems to be his most popular avatar (ouch!), is used here as
well, then again it is left soon enough not to weary off. Aided in
comedy also by Krushna Abhishek (forever known to me as Govinda´s
nephew) and other minor character artists, all the protagonists make
sure your sides are hurting from all the laughs even before the
interval.
Asin and Prachi both are
presented beautifully, but Asin, as gorgeous as she undoubtedly is,
lacks „it“. She has a great beauty, yet no personality on screen,
nothing that would catch your eye as soon as she is not the only one
in the frame. She does decent, but I´m becoming a bit tired of her
decent, because apart from Ghajini that is all she has shown so far.
She has not one role that would allow her to perform (and evolve),
she seems to be choosing only films where starcast pretty much
guarantees a hit. You cannot really talk about a chemistry between
the girls and their romantic interests in the movie – well, not
between Asin and Ajay (yep yep... age difference too visible – and
I am afraid this complaint is going to be more and more frequent in
my reviews concerning films by Mr. Devgn, Mr. Kumar and also the
Khans etc), fortunatelly Ajay and Abhishek have enough chemistry to
make it work.
It could have been 30
minutes shorter, because like this it was getting a bit wearisome at
one point, and as a girl I´m not really into the obligatory car
porn Rohit Shetty enjoys so much. There are only three songs – two
lovey-dovey ones that I really liked and enjoyed, and the one playing
during the opening credits and featuring none other than Amitabh
Bachchan, which obviously has no other point than to boost his son´s
movie at least a little with his legendary status. And I didn´t get
why they were jumping out of huge Fabergé eggs either.
If I should sum it up, Bol
Bachchan is a fun ride with a heart.
hi. the movie was a real fun. thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteBollywood Gossip
Nice review!! As for them jumping out of the Fabergé eggs, it's a direct reference to the classic Amar Akbar Anthony starring Amitabh Bachchan. His character famously got out of an egg at the beginning a song (My name is Anthony Gonsalves)
ReplyDeleteThank you! I have seen AAA, but somehow it didn´t really dawn on me :)
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