Boom -- Explosive ? Not Quite. Review on Boom

Boom

Cast : Amitabh Bachchan (Bade Miyan), Jackie Shroff(Chote Miya), Gulshan Grover (Medium 50-50), Madhu Sapre (Anu), Padma Laxmi, Kathrina Kaif, Seema Biswas, Javed Jaffrey, Zeenat Aaman.

Synopsis : Madhu Sapre, Padma Laxmi and Kathrina Kaif pick a fight with a fellow model on-ramp. A catfight ensues and diamonds hidden in the other models hair are lost in the crowd. Turns out the diamonds belong to Bade Miyan, a Dubai based Underworld king pin. To give him company is his brother Medium Miyan, who acts as his messenger, and Chotte Miyan, who looks after affairs in India. Javed Jaffrey (Boom Shanker) is Chotte's ernswhile assistant.

The REview :

Kaisad Gustag, the master storyteller of Bombay Boys makes an impressive comeback with this film. The movie had everything going in its favor, excellent music, great cast, great performances, an original plot, three beautiful models, foreign locales, et al. What went wrong ?

To start out with, Boom starts out as a novel presentation of the characters. The background score suits it to te hilt. The movie keeps the viewer's attention till the interaction between Sapre and Shroff, but loses track after that.

The characters are simply whacky, something that is either overdone in most Bollywood films, or is non-existent. But neither of that in Boom. Boom creates a very Tarantinesque ambience. The characters are expletive-spewing hard-core, yet funny.

The biggest problem with Boom is the editing. The direction by Mr. Gustag is excellent, but the scissors should have been put to better use. The bank robbery song is totally mis-placed, and so is the 'party scene' after Mottu Ram is kidnapped by the models. The movie that started out in such a slick fashion should not have dropped dead after the interval.

The climax is another draw-back and looks shoddily done and looks rushed. Cinematography is good, and so are the performances.

The movie as a whole is not impressive at all. But individual sequences of the movie are so impressively done, and so well executed, that one wonders if Gustag was pressurised into making the final product, the way it turned out to be.

A different movie, one only wishes it was glued-together in a better way.