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Boss
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydri
Direction: Anthony D'Souza
Rating: 4 Star
It is one thing creating a Guinness record with the world's biggest poster as a publicity gig for your film and quite another being Bollywood's biggest boss. Akshay Kumar has done the former to hardsell his new film, and he has been gunning for the latter over the decades. If box-office records could be manufactured like Guinness-compatible posters, Akshay would have wrested them long ago.
Boss once again underlines the aimlessness that has largely dominated Akshay's career in his race for the top. The film rides his stardom from the moment he enters the frame about 40 minutes into the runtime. Only, what follows has nothing new to offer.
Rohit Khilnani's review | Faheem Ruhani's review | Saurabh Dwivedi's review | Suhani Singh's review
They could have called it Khiladi 786 Part 2, or Rowdy Rathore Part 3 (if you consider Khiladi 786 was basically a botched-up Rowdy Rathore Part 2). If the look and feel of Boss - down to the way random action scenes and songs have been shot -particularly remind all of the dud Khiladi 786, Akshay would be in a hurry to shun all such memory (or the fact that the film is directed by Anthony D'Souza, maker of Blue).
Boss plays it safe, unpretentiously announcing its brainlessness right from the word go. This is a world where the bechara baap ominously warns the villain a saviour will arrive to destroy him. Long-separated brothers recognise each other in a jiffy after years through just one dialogue they exchanged as kids. The rich, spoilt guy the heroine is being forced to marry is a bumbling dufus who will be the butt of all jokes (literally so at one point). Loud is the operative emotion, everyone hams.
New gimmicks? Akshay fights to the beats of music (wow, he never did that before). He gets some parkour action (he never did that before, too). Aditi Rao Hydari gets down to bikini basics for her entry scene (she never did that before either).
Like most loud films in Bollywood lately, this one too is a southie remake. Boss rehashes Pokkiri Raja, one of the biggest moneyspinners in the history of Malayalam cinema. Akshay takes over from Mammootty, Madurai becomes Delhi, most of all else that is passed off as cinema remains the same.
Akshay plays Boss, Haryanvi bhai with a Robin Hood knack. Why is he called Boss? Because he has been foster-fathered by a don named Big Boss (Danny Denzongpa) - no resemblance to a voice you hear in a house somewhere in Mumbai suburbs that hosts a few set-to-be-loony game show contestants.
A turn of events brings Boss to Delhi, to protect his younger brother Shiv (Shiv Pandit) from a forever-scowling cop Ayushman Thakur (Ronit Roy). Stuffed into this one-line script is Boss's aadarshwadi father, a forever-moping school teacher (Mithun Chakraborty) who loves to hate the guy.
The film does not even try emerging out of its cardboard cutout frame. Everything here, including the love story of the young couple and Sonakshi Sinha's cameo, happens to let Akshay fight, sing, dance and turn soppy or slapsticky by turns. On cue, the cast remains a set of props as he goes about unleashing raw star power.
For hardcore fans, maybe that would be a treat. For others, this Boss simply goes for a toss.
[/img][/CENTER]Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydri
Direction: Anthony D'Souza
Rating: 4 Star
It is one thing creating a Guinness record with the world's biggest poster as a publicity gig for your film and quite another being Bollywood's biggest boss. Akshay Kumar has done the former to hardsell his new film, and he has been gunning for the latter over the decades. If box-office records could be manufactured like Guinness-compatible posters, Akshay would have wrested them long ago.
Boss once again underlines the aimlessness that has largely dominated Akshay's career in his race for the top. The film rides his stardom from the moment he enters the frame about 40 minutes into the runtime. Only, what follows has nothing new to offer.
Rohit Khilnani's review | Faheem Ruhani's review | Saurabh Dwivedi's review | Suhani Singh's review
They could have called it Khiladi 786 Part 2, or Rowdy Rathore Part 3 (if you consider Khiladi 786 was basically a botched-up Rowdy Rathore Part 2). If the look and feel of Boss - down to the way random action scenes and songs have been shot -particularly remind all of the dud Khiladi 786, Akshay would be in a hurry to shun all such memory (or the fact that the film is directed by Anthony D'Souza, maker of Blue).
Boss plays it safe, unpretentiously announcing its brainlessness right from the word go. This is a world where the bechara baap ominously warns the villain a saviour will arrive to destroy him. Long-separated brothers recognise each other in a jiffy after years through just one dialogue they exchanged as kids. The rich, spoilt guy the heroine is being forced to marry is a bumbling dufus who will be the butt of all jokes (literally so at one point). Loud is the operative emotion, everyone hams.
New gimmicks? Akshay fights to the beats of music (wow, he never did that before). He gets some parkour action (he never did that before, too). Aditi Rao Hydari gets down to bikini basics for her entry scene (she never did that before either).
Like most loud films in Bollywood lately, this one too is a southie remake. Boss rehashes Pokkiri Raja, one of the biggest moneyspinners in the history of Malayalam cinema. Akshay takes over from Mammootty, Madurai becomes Delhi, most of all else that is passed off as cinema remains the same.
Akshay plays Boss, Haryanvi bhai with a Robin Hood knack. Why is he called Boss? Because he has been foster-fathered by a don named Big Boss (Danny Denzongpa) - no resemblance to a voice you hear in a house somewhere in Mumbai suburbs that hosts a few set-to-be-loony game show contestants.
A turn of events brings Boss to Delhi, to protect his younger brother Shiv (Shiv Pandit) from a forever-scowling cop Ayushman Thakur (Ronit Roy). Stuffed into this one-line script is Boss's aadarshwadi father, a forever-moping school teacher (Mithun Chakraborty) who loves to hate the guy.
The film does not even try emerging out of its cardboard cutout frame. Everything here, including the love story of the young couple and Sonakshi Sinha's cameo, happens to let Akshay fight, sing, dance and turn soppy or slapsticky by turns. On cue, the cast remains a set of props as he goes about unleashing raw star power.
For hardcore fans, maybe that would be a treat. For others, this Boss simply goes for a toss.
