Boom (2003/I)

User Rating:

2.7/10   

Director:

Kaizad Gustad

Writer:

Kaizad Gustad (writer)

Release Date:

19 September 2003 (India)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

The fashion world meets the underworld

Plot:

The film centres around three female supermodels who live and work together. They belong to the international...

Plot Keywords:

Charm | Underworld | Three Dons | Supermodel | Male Dominated Society

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan	...	Bade Mia
Jackie Shroff	...	Abdul Wahab Barkatali Al Sabunchi 50 / 50 aka Chotte Mia
Gulshan Grover	...	Saleem Ahmad 'Cut-Piece Saleem Suiting Shirting' aka Meduim Mia
Padma Lakshmi	...	Shiela Bardez
Madhu Sapre	...	Anu Gaekwad
Katrina Kaif	...	Rina Kaif aka Popdi Chinchpokli
Javed Jaffrey	...	Boom Shankar aka Boom Boom
Zeenat Aman	...	Alice Rodriguez De Fonseca
Seema Biswas	...	Bharti
Bo Derek	...	Herself
Anna Singh	...	Herself
Hemant Trivedi	...	Himself
Malani Ramani	...	Herself
Manish Malhotra	...	Himself
Rohit Bal	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

India

Language:

English | Hindi | Marathi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

India:A

Filming Locations:

Burj-al-Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company:

Quest Films

Trivia:

Amitabh Bachchan was criticized for doing such a raunchy role.

Movie Connections:

References Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)

Soundtrack:

Mundian To Bach Ke

Doom

Good God. My eyes.. they still hurt..after being exposed to this movie. But the pain is mitigated, for my ears hurt even more, after having to listen to some of the most atrocious dialogue ever uttered.

I'd like to consider myself to be fairly tolerant. I managed to sit through Kaante. Mind you, i did not enjoy the debacle in the least, but I could sit through it. Boom is downright repulsive and ridiculous. I walked into the theater with no expectation and still came out traumatized.

I smelt trouble the moment one of the actors appeared on screen and for no rhyme or reason proceeded to say "Tick tock,tick f**king, tock f**king tick" in the most horrendous accent. After that it was all downhill.

Acting - Unbelievable. The three models should be banned from acting. For some reason the director decided that it was best that they all put on weird accents. Almost all the dialogue is spoken in english. Apart from amitabh bachan , i can quite safely state that none of the other actors speak english. All the rest of the actors looked confused most of the time. I honestly can't blame them for being at the mercy of a screwball director.

Dialogue -Downright annoying. Characters say random things, act like imbeciles on crack. The writer seems to be desperately trying to copy Tarantino's writing style. He comes closer to imitating a drunk moron who's vocabulary doesn't exceed the F word. They use F**K generously and randomly. It never even sounds normal at any point, for all of them have such horrendous accents.

Plot - Mind Numbingly bad. It doesnt even pretend to have one. Characters do random things for absolutely no rhyme or reason. Amitabh Bachan throws a female out of a moving car just for the heck of it. Zeenat's role in the movie is even more worse. There are no character arcs. The story is too absurd to be bothered about. To top it off there are plot holes the size of russia.

Overview - The movie is annoying, disgusting, repulsive, childish, inane, moronic, absurd, incoherent, retarded,pointless, boring, embarassing.

Those are its good qualities.

Rating 2/10. What prevents me from giving it a one is the fact that it did have some decent cinematography and production values.