Assimilate these 3 sentences
1. “Kisi Ne Kaha Hai ki khel harne ya jeetne ke liye nahin kheli jaati. Woh usne zaroor haarne ke baad hee kaha hoga”!!! (Someone once said that it doesn’t matter if you win or lose in a game. He must have surely said that after losing a game).
2. What goes around – comes around
3. Maro yaa Maaro (Eat or be eaten)
The entire concept of Bhindi Bazaar Inc. can be explained with just these 2 sentences. A simple concept of every subsequent person in the food chain wanting to grow a bit too fast for his own good in the race to be at the top of Mumbai’s biggest area for crime – organized or unorganized – Bhindi Bazaar. The story of Fateh (Prashant Narayanan) and Tabrez aka Tez (Gautam Sharma) who grow up as the best of buddies and as protégés of the local “Maamu” (Pawan Malhotra). But what does Maamu do? He is the local handler for all the pickpockets in a part of Bhindi Bazaar. And extremely organized set up. And one that comes with its own hassles of restricting yourself to the area that has been assigned to you. As was found out by one of Maamu’s men who strayed into the area of their arch rivals from next door, the area across the tracks, led by Bhaiyyaji (Piyush Mishra) and his right hand man, Sankat Pandey. Superimpose all of this with a Pharma Company that is trying to use this network of crime to spread flu so that their drug starts flying off the shelves and of course the most important person of all – the guy who controls it all from his air conditioned sprawling Apartment – the big boss – Shroff (Kay Kay Menon). That my friends is the best way I could give you a synopsis of what you are in for when u walk in to watch BBI.
In a bit over 2 hours, newbie director Ankush Bhatt tries his best to get a bunch of people of act but fails quite miserably at it. Kay Kay Menon and Piyush Mishra need not be told usually what to do on screen and have the capabilities to figure out what is to be done by themselves. Kay Kay however has a staid role which is more of a Sutradhar that a lead character. Prashant Narayanan and another newbie Gautam Sharma both flatter to deceive. Somewhere I have always thought that Prashant can be a much better actor but keeps getting into these roles which require him not to shave and speak in a very “Mawali” (Rowdy) fashion. Gautam Sharma will take a long long time to get upto speed with the concept of acting. We then come to the 4 pieces of furniture. Firstly Shilpa Shukla who has been out of a job since Chak De and is desperate to get her 15 minutes of fame back. Then there is new comer Shweta Varma who is as frigid on screen as a polar ice cap with no sight of global warming. And the last but one piece is the very slutty winner of an MTV VJ or model Hunt – Vedika Pratap Singh – whose only job it would have seemed was to to show off her cleavage (which was clearly enhanced) and have 3 sex scenes with different men. And rounding off the entire shebang with the disappointing cousin of Jenny from the block – Caterina – who was being spoken about over the radio as the next big thing in item numbers – NAH!!! Nothing u will miss.
In the end what would have been basic fodder for the likes of an RGV turns out to be a damp squib to say the least. To summarize – Strong but beaten to death concept, below par direction, Under utilized actors, inconsistencies galore, one reasonable song, 3 sex scenes, one item number and Jackie Shroff (yuck!!!) & Deepti Naval in special appearances – if you believe this whets your appetite then go right ahead with BBI. I kinda wasted my time on this 4 on 10 movie.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqEwde6Rb4
1. “Kisi Ne Kaha Hai ki khel harne ya jeetne ke liye nahin kheli jaati. Woh usne zaroor haarne ke baad hee kaha hoga”!!! (Someone once said that it doesn’t matter if you win or lose in a game. He must have surely said that after losing a game).
2. What goes around – comes around
3. Maro yaa Maaro (Eat or be eaten)
The entire concept of Bhindi Bazaar Inc. can be explained with just these 2 sentences. A simple concept of every subsequent person in the food chain wanting to grow a bit too fast for his own good in the race to be at the top of Mumbai’s biggest area for crime – organized or unorganized – Bhindi Bazaar. The story of Fateh (Prashant Narayanan) and Tabrez aka Tez (Gautam Sharma) who grow up as the best of buddies and as protégés of the local “Maamu” (Pawan Malhotra). But what does Maamu do? He is the local handler for all the pickpockets in a part of Bhindi Bazaar. And extremely organized set up. And one that comes with its own hassles of restricting yourself to the area that has been assigned to you. As was found out by one of Maamu’s men who strayed into the area of their arch rivals from next door, the area across the tracks, led by Bhaiyyaji (Piyush Mishra) and his right hand man, Sankat Pandey. Superimpose all of this with a Pharma Company that is trying to use this network of crime to spread flu so that their drug starts flying off the shelves and of course the most important person of all – the guy who controls it all from his air conditioned sprawling Apartment – the big boss – Shroff (Kay Kay Menon). That my friends is the best way I could give you a synopsis of what you are in for when u walk in to watch BBI.
In a bit over 2 hours, newbie director Ankush Bhatt tries his best to get a bunch of people of act but fails quite miserably at it. Kay Kay Menon and Piyush Mishra need not be told usually what to do on screen and have the capabilities to figure out what is to be done by themselves. Kay Kay however has a staid role which is more of a Sutradhar that a lead character. Prashant Narayanan and another newbie Gautam Sharma both flatter to deceive. Somewhere I have always thought that Prashant can be a much better actor but keeps getting into these roles which require him not to shave and speak in a very “Mawali” (Rowdy) fashion. Gautam Sharma will take a long long time to get upto speed with the concept of acting. We then come to the 4 pieces of furniture. Firstly Shilpa Shukla who has been out of a job since Chak De and is desperate to get her 15 minutes of fame back. Then there is new comer Shweta Varma who is as frigid on screen as a polar ice cap with no sight of global warming. And the last but one piece is the very slutty winner of an MTV VJ or model Hunt – Vedika Pratap Singh – whose only job it would have seemed was to to show off her cleavage (which was clearly enhanced) and have 3 sex scenes with different men. And rounding off the entire shebang with the disappointing cousin of Jenny from the block – Caterina – who was being spoken about over the radio as the next big thing in item numbers – NAH!!! Nothing u will miss.
In the end what would have been basic fodder for the likes of an RGV turns out to be a damp squib to say the least. To summarize – Strong but beaten to death concept, below par direction, Under utilized actors, inconsistencies galore, one reasonable song, 3 sex scenes, one item number and Jackie Shroff (yuck!!!) & Deepti Naval in special appearances – if you believe this whets your appetite then go right ahead with BBI. I kinda wasted my time on this 4 on 10 movie.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqEwde6Rb4
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