Directed by : Anthony D'Souza
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2571140/
Tries too hard to impress, once again Akshay stardom prefferred over script.
Read at your own risk, the post is full of spoilers.
After making me love him in his great negative avatar 'Once upon a time in Mumbaai2', Akshay Kumar is back to the kinda of films I am completely bored of watching him be part of.
Two brothers, elder (Akshay Kumar) leaves house due to misunderstanding with father (Mithun Chakraborty) and grows up to become a well known 'gunda' (positive one in case of this film), a corrupt police officer i.e main villian (Ronit Roy), corrupt politician (Govind Namdev), love story of younger brother (Shiv Pandit) with sister (Aditi Rao Hydari) of corrupt police officer. Add all these elements, and you get the story seen many times before.
A predictable screenplay that uses flashbacks of father-son (elder one) at places, probably giving way to allow Akshay Kumar make entry much earlier, though narration still used up 15-20 mins for his 1st scene.
No story, no screenplay, next comes entertainment since its a masala movie. Yes, there are scenes that entertains you, like the one where Akshay makes a entry and fights the gundaas with music in background as it turns his mood on. Or the dargah sequence, and my personal fav when he accuses his younger brother with 'tum newcomers ko kuch yaad nahi rehta, isliye main pehle se tyaari karke aaya tha'.
But then there are many senseless, no logic (sorry just because you make masala film, you can't show any nonsense) like the plant that grows with sweat, really ? Then, the love relationship between Shiv and Aditi starts with a bikini scene, and within 5 mins they are romancing each other in dreamy song 'har kisi ko nahi milta', that was so quick. Another moment in latter 2nd half when Mithun realises his mistake and from 3 mins ago saying stuff against his son, now he says 'mujhe mere bete ke paas le chalo', what a melodrama. Then, asking Ronit Roy to keep mouthing 'maut ko aise hi badnaam kar rakha hai, takleef toh zindagi deti hai' in almost every of his initial 4-5 scenes. Also, the scene where he is made to say 'gaadh dete hai' 3-4 times.
Simply Terrible direction, even Blue had those well shot under-water sequences, Boss has nothing to speak in favour of the director. Poor Writing as well as Dialogues. Background Score is decent, love the main tune that plays for Akshay Kumar.
The action scenes would had been something to love in the movie, but alas dissappointment in that department too, blame goes on the editor/director. Why do they (infact most Indian movies) use abundance of slow motions in fight scenes, fight has to be quick to make a impact, if you are gonna slow the punches and kicks, the whole point of action is simply thrown away. The last man to man fight between Akshay and Ronit just due to this reason, goes completely useless and boring to me.
Songs are inserted into the narration for the sake of it. though I have to admit, they were a sigh of relief because I like most of the songs especially 'Hum na tode' and 'Party all Night'.
Among performances, Ronit Roy shines in a evil role, had he got better dialogues, and a better director, his performance would had been lovable.
Akshay Kumar is familiar to this comedy-action-drama territory, and he pretty much does well without doing anything exceptional.
Shiv Pandit is decent in a supporting role. Only Aditi Rao Hydari would be able to tell what she saw in her character that she did this film, my guess is she did it knowing Akshay plays the lead.
Danny Denzongpa in one scene reminded of Agneepath with the dialogue 'apna usool kehta hai', maybe writer did it intentionally.
Mithun hams. While the rest cast is simply wasted, specially the likes of Sanjay Mishra and Govind Ramdev. While Shakti Kapoor makes joke of himself for that nonsense special apperance scene.
The director even forces Sonakshi get a dialogue scene post 'Party all night' song, which again appears bizarre.
Amitabh Bachchan does voiceover to introduce characters at the start, its become a trend these days, to include famous actors in small portion of movie, like Shahrukh did to Rajnikanth in his 2 craps, Ra one and Chennai Express. The directors get the notion that they have made a bad film, so lets do everything to get maximum profit out of the celeb fans. Aneways, Boss has just 3-5 mins narration done by Amitabh for his fans.
The father-son angle in the movie gets my attention only during the flashback scenes, where the actor playing the young Boss does very good job (I think he does Life Ok mahadev, not sure).
Overall, Boss very much falls on the lines of Khiladi 786 which I had thought when the 1st teaser had come. As always, Akshay Kumar gives some laughs here and there, Ronit shows his grey shades (not to the extent of Udaan), but without a good screenplay and direction its almost impossible to make someone even like the movie.
Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2571140/
Tries too hard to impress, once again Akshay stardom prefferred over script.
Read at your own risk, the post is full of spoilers.
After making me love him in his great negative avatar 'Once upon a time in Mumbaai2', Akshay Kumar is back to the kinda of films I am completely bored of watching him be part of.
Two brothers, elder (Akshay Kumar) leaves house due to misunderstanding with father (Mithun Chakraborty) and grows up to become a well known 'gunda' (positive one in case of this film), a corrupt police officer i.e main villian (Ronit Roy), corrupt politician (Govind Namdev), love story of younger brother (Shiv Pandit) with sister (Aditi Rao Hydari) of corrupt police officer. Add all these elements, and you get the story seen many times before.
A predictable screenplay that uses flashbacks of father-son (elder one) at places, probably giving way to allow Akshay Kumar make entry much earlier, though narration still used up 15-20 mins for his 1st scene.
No story, no screenplay, next comes entertainment since its a masala movie. Yes, there are scenes that entertains you, like the one where Akshay makes a entry and fights the gundaas with music in background as it turns his mood on. Or the dargah sequence, and my personal fav when he accuses his younger brother with 'tum newcomers ko kuch yaad nahi rehta, isliye main pehle se tyaari karke aaya tha'.
But then there are many senseless, no logic (sorry just because you make masala film, you can't show any nonsense) like the plant that grows with sweat, really ? Then, the love relationship between Shiv and Aditi starts with a bikini scene, and within 5 mins they are romancing each other in dreamy song 'har kisi ko nahi milta', that was so quick. Another moment in latter 2nd half when Mithun realises his mistake and from 3 mins ago saying stuff against his son, now he says 'mujhe mere bete ke paas le chalo', what a melodrama. Then, asking Ronit Roy to keep mouthing 'maut ko aise hi badnaam kar rakha hai, takleef toh zindagi deti hai' in almost every of his initial 4-5 scenes. Also, the scene where he is made to say 'gaadh dete hai' 3-4 times.
Simply Terrible direction, even Blue had those well shot under-water sequences, Boss has nothing to speak in favour of the director. Poor Writing as well as Dialogues. Background Score is decent, love the main tune that plays for Akshay Kumar.
The action scenes would had been something to love in the movie, but alas dissappointment in that department too, blame goes on the editor/director. Why do they (infact most Indian movies) use abundance of slow motions in fight scenes, fight has to be quick to make a impact, if you are gonna slow the punches and kicks, the whole point of action is simply thrown away. The last man to man fight between Akshay and Ronit just due to this reason, goes completely useless and boring to me.
Songs are inserted into the narration for the sake of it. though I have to admit, they were a sigh of relief because I like most of the songs especially 'Hum na tode' and 'Party all Night'.
Among performances, Ronit Roy shines in a evil role, had he got better dialogues, and a better director, his performance would had been lovable.
Akshay Kumar is familiar to this comedy-action-drama territory, and he pretty much does well without doing anything exceptional.
Shiv Pandit is decent in a supporting role. Only Aditi Rao Hydari would be able to tell what she saw in her character that she did this film, my guess is she did it knowing Akshay plays the lead.
Danny Denzongpa in one scene reminded of Agneepath with the dialogue 'apna usool kehta hai', maybe writer did it intentionally.
Mithun hams. While the rest cast is simply wasted, specially the likes of Sanjay Mishra and Govind Ramdev. While Shakti Kapoor makes joke of himself for that nonsense special apperance scene.
The director even forces Sonakshi get a dialogue scene post 'Party all night' song, which again appears bizarre.
Amitabh Bachchan does voiceover to introduce characters at the start, its become a trend these days, to include famous actors in small portion of movie, like Shahrukh did to Rajnikanth in his 2 craps, Ra one and Chennai Express. The directors get the notion that they have made a bad film, so lets do everything to get maximum profit out of the celeb fans. Aneways, Boss has just 3-5 mins narration done by Amitabh for his fans.
The father-son angle in the movie gets my attention only during the flashback scenes, where the actor playing the young Boss does very good job (I think he does Life Ok mahadev, not sure).
Overall, Boss very much falls on the lines of Khiladi 786 which I had thought when the 1st teaser had come. As always, Akshay Kumar gives some laughs here and there, Ronit shows his grey shades (not to the extent of Udaan), but without a good screenplay and direction its almost impossible to make someone even like the movie.
Verdict : BELOW AVERAGE
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