Bol Bachchan (2012)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Blistering performances.

Bol Bachchan directed by Rohit Shetty is a tiresome movie.The movie follows the same routine of Rohit Shetty movies:A plain story,some idiotic car chase sequences,ironic stunts and monotonous hamming by the actors.Bol Bachchan does offer some laughs but they are far and between.Even the title track featuring Amitabh Bachchan along with the movie's lead actors is bland.Story: Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) lives in Karol Bagh, New Delhi with his sister Sania(Asin Thottumkal). They are legally fighting for an ancestral property - land case. But the odds turn against them and they lose. Their well wisher, Shastri Chacha (Asrani), advises and convinces them to migrate to his village Ranakpur where he assures Abbas that he will get him a job at his owner's place. The owner being none other than the powerful Prithviraj Raghuvanshi(Ajay Devgn). Abbas enters Ranakpur village and while saving a child trapped inside a temple, he breaks open the lock of an ancestral temple but fate plays an important twist in Abbas' life as the whole village including Prithviraj's step-brother Vikrant opposes Abbas' actions but Prithviraj arrives and handles the situation. On being asked his name, Abbas's friend comes out with a fake name, as it would create a rage if villagers came to know that the lock of a temple had been broken by a Muslim. From here starts a series of cover-ups, goof-ups and comic situations where to cover one lie, Abbas starts padding up with a bigger lie telling people that he also has a twin brother with no mustache. From here on starts the Topsy-turvy journey of a single person acting as two different entities.The saving grace of the movie is the performances of Abhishek Bachchan and Ajay Devgn.Abhishek Bachchan is awesome,although he gets over-the-top at times,he rocks!Ajay Devgn plays the role of Prithicraj Raghuvanshi with panache.His Hindi-translation English lines are humorous.The direction is bad.The music is fine.The dialogs are excellent, especially the ones delivered by Ajay Devgn.The action sequences are bland.Performances: As mentioned above,Abhishek Bachchan and Ajay Devgn,are the only ones who manage to bring smile on your faces.The rest of the actors do not deserve a mention because they either just come in and say two-three dialogs(Prachi Desai and Asin) or start hamming(Asrani,Neeraj Vora,Krishna Abhishek and Archana Puran Singh).All in all,Bol Bachchan is the same routine Rohit Shetty movie,which has got a bit more worse.I am giving it a three on ten.Watch at your own risk!

This movie was really funny. After long run of crappy Hindi "funny" movies it was a really fun to watch this movie. Well I am not saying this is a hilarious movie. But its not that bad as the reviews are showing. The matter is you have to know about our Indian culture (specifically village culture) to enjoy the funny part of this movie. Also there were some parts where actors said some dialogs from previous funny movies. Those were also funny. So you see if you don't know about our culture or about our long tradition of funny films culture - you wont get the funny essence from it. Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgan were awesome. But this girl "Prachi Desai" is a gorgeous actress (or whatever) but she does not know how to act. Also "Krishna Abhishek" in some part of the movie did some irrelevant overacting.

I had no intentions of watching this film, but was forced to do so as there was nothing better running in theaters. After two and half hours, I walked out with a bad headache.Overall, an utter waste of time. If you really want to watch a comedy film, grab a copy of the original Golmaal instead of wasting your time on this crap.Acting: 5/10 Story-Screenplay-Direction: 3/10 Technical Aspects: 6/10 Is it worth your time and money??: No. Unless you happen to like such boring comedies, or have time and money to space, skip this one please.For a detailed review, please visit sasikanth.me :)

"Boy under armpit, hyper city noise pollution" & "I will make him remember milk no 6 " define Bol BachchanThe movie is about a village and its care-taker Prithvi aka Ajay Devgn. Asrani invites AB aka Abaas Ali to his village where Prithvi gives him a job as his super-man. (No, I am not kidding, these are the words used). What follows is a poor remake of the classic Golmaal. Twin AB, twin mothers, twin bathrooms and what not! Some dialogues like,"Pest control yourself", "A brother in need is a sister indeed" sound crass.Ajay as the village's anna-datta and an English lover is the only positive that the movie offers. ABs Abhishek side is plain simple and Abbas' side is crass; straight out of Dostana's books. Krishna irritates to the core. Asin & Prachi simply add to the glamor quotient. Isn't Asrani tired of doing the same role again and again? The songs are passable. The climax is straight out of Aneez Bazmee's No Entry & Welcome, hanging on a tree. Rohit Shetty did a great job with Golmaal-1 but all his later ventures are turning more silly than comic. Although this one isn't as bad as other movies of such genre, this one is not worth a cinema ticket. Conversely, if you have the appetite for such cinema, get ready to be treated !