Bol Bachchan

This one’s strictly for Bollywood junkies whose funny bones are easy to tickle. Yes, Bol Bachchan is a hot air balloon with no air, hot or otherwise. So expect no genuine comic highs.

BOL BACHCHAN in Mumbai lingo literally means one telling a tall tale. While the concept in itself is good, the way it has been thrust onto the viewer is juvenile. For one, Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) is the one who has to do Bol Bachchan.

'Bol Bachchan', directed by Rohit Shetty, revels gleefully in its silliness. This is a film whose pedestrian humor requires neither taste nor common sense to appreciate, and anyone seeking wit, a clever screenplay, or inspired performances might...

Bol Bachchan is dispensable cinema, forgotten almost immediately after it's over. What I kept wondering is how does Asrani who acted in Mukerjee's acclaimed films like Chupke Chupke, Abhimaan, Bawarchi feel about working in the remake of a film where...

Rohit Shetty’s comedies may not be a hit with critics but audiences love his movies and make them blockbusters. Bol Bachchan is a comedy of errors. He has made a name for himself through the Golmaal series. For Bol Bachchan, he re-visits Hrishikesh...

Fun?Not exactly. The screenplay of Bol Bachchan directed by Rohit Shetty – another aspirant to the Rs 100 crore-mark at the cash counters – is so weak that it’s a virtual termite-infested plank of teak. There’s just no effort at making cinema here.

Like that cute little boy who holds his father’s face in both his hands to get attention, “Bol Bachchan” just doesn’t let go. Its relentless quest for a rolicking time is infectious. The comic confusions are put forward with a giggly gusto.

You know those heart-charts they have in hospitals, the ones that trace a person's heartbeat up and down in waves? Bol Bachchan (BB) reminds you often of one of those. Rohit Shetty's latest movie has a constant up-and-down aspect to it, one sequence...

Entertainment coupled with a weak story, a weaker screenplay, and complete lack of common sense– Bol Bachchan has all the exact ingredients of cooking a 100 crore dish. The movie and its box office collection reflects the average film making for...

Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) is forced by circumstances to move to a village with his sister, Sania (Asin), in search of a job. After Abbas saves the life of a kid, the village strongman, Prithviraj Raghuvanshi (Ajay Devgan), hires him as the...

By now it's almost become an obvious fact that critical acclaim and mass appeal don't go hand in hand. Only those films that get severely panned by critics make it to the new found 100Cr club of the Hindi Film Industry.

A few years ago, I interviewed the Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. She had recently blazed into the spotlight with her...

"I am not in the film, only my name is." Amitabh Bachchan declares as much after the rollicking title item song has played out right at the start. For the sake of our funny bones, we wish Big B was in the film. He would have perhaps added a few genuine la

This is a Rohit Shetty film. Which means it is full of primary colours. I counted a red-blue-green-yellow palette more than a couple of times, all in the same frame. It is full of cars and jeeps hurtling down roads and crashing and smashing.

Action and humor are two genres of cinema that work predominantly well in the large screen set-up. Films like WANTED, DABANGG, READY, BODYGUARD, ROWDY RATHORE and all of Rohit Shetty’s movies are examples of movies that not only entertained the masses...

Director Shetty delivers another successful comedy after box office hits like Golmaal, All The Best and Singham.Shetty’s direction does not fall prey to a predictable plot due to a novel, entertaining and engaging screenplay targeting a mass audience.