![]() ![]() This twisted tale of an impoverished boy who grows up in the badlands of northern India and learns to kill at the tender age of ten for a couple of life-saving bananas, is by far the weakest film that the Mumbai-independent cinema poster boy has ever done.īabumoshai Bandookbaaz Movie Review: Nawazuddin, Bidita in a film's still (Courtesy: YouTube) If last year's Freaky Ali, in which Nawazuddin played the lighthearted lead role of a poor drifter-turned-gangster-turned-golfer with customary flair, didn't measure up to his talent, Babumoshai Bandookbaaz fares much worse. These are sought to be passed off as radical breaks from Bollywood convention. And a tough cobbler girl, a victim of sexual assaults by a politician and his brothers, extracts a price from the male protagonist when he hits upon her and expects her to reciprocate his passion. A corrupt cop keeps impregnating his ageing wife because she is unable to bear him a girl. ![]() Titillation comes by way of a criminal-contractor who derives pleasure from watching the masseur go to work on his wife. The story, whatever there is of it, is all over the place. As the deviants are introduced one by one, the least that the audience expects is that the characters, at least the pivotal ones, will emerge out of the crowd and assume lives of their own. ![]() The men are louts and the women are impossible to fathom. Babumoshai Bandookbaaz, in the end, is a tumbledown see-saw that never heaves itself off the ground.īabumoshai Bandookbaaz Movie Review: Nawazuddin in a film's still (Image courtesy: Instagram) The characters turn upon each other like hungry hounds baying for blood. It whips up plenty of heat and dust and packs rustic romance, love, lust, betrayal, doses of black humour and a great deal of carnage into its tenuous two hours. Even the ever-dependable Nawazuddin Siddiqui, hard pressed to pump life into the poorly conceived titular character of a coldblooded contract killer, can do little to salvage the film. And its denizens are emaciated shadows of the trigger-happy, fast-talking thugs that peopled Anurag Kashyap's cult film.īabumoshai Bandookbaaz, scripted by Ghalib Asad Bhopali, may seem authentic in terms of its location and lingo, but its plot is riddled with holes the size of craters. Bijuria - a fictional police station area somewhere in Uttar Pradesh - is no Wasseypur. Bhaskar Banerjee, the thriller, no matter how hard it pushes itself, is merely a country cousin of Bollywood's gangster sagas. So, what was all the kerfuffle for? While this Babumoshai obviously has no affinity with Dr. As capricious as its unfounded title, Kushan Nandy's rough-hewn hinterland noir Babumoshai Bandookbaaz is a roaring mess. ![]()
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