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BesharamEnglish: Shameless) is a 2013 Indian action comedy film directed by Abhinav Kashyap.[4] The film features Ranbir Kapoor opposite Pallavi Sharda, who marks her return to cinema.[5] Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor and Javed Jaffrey also feature in the film. Filming for Besharam was scheduled to commence on 10 December 2012, with part of it taking place on a film set in Film City, Mumbai.[6][7] The film received largely negative reviews upon its release on 2 October 2013.[8]

Babli Chautala (Ranbir Kapoor) is a small-time car thief brought up in an orphanage and manages to charm everybody who knows him. He falls head over heels for Tara Sharma (Pallavi Sharda) whom he met at a wedding, but he is clearly not her type. She insults him when tries to be oversmart with her. Babli is at the same time being searched for by Inspector Chulbul Chautala (Rishi Kapoor) and his wife, Head Constable Bulbul Chautala (Neetu Kapoor). Babli steals a car from outside Tara's office and sells it to a Hawala King Bheem Singh Chandel (Javed Jaffrey). When he finds out that the car belonged to Tara, he offers her to come with him to Chandigarh to get it back from the goon. She agrees to go with him and eventually finds out that her car was stolen by none other than Babli himself. Babli convinces her that he was doing all these petty crimes to support the orphanage kids and will change if given a chance. Later, Babli and Tara steal the car from Chandel and run back to Delhi. On their way home, they find a bag full of hawala cash in the car that belongs to Chandel. Babli decides to keep the money for his orphanage but is later arrested by Chulbul and Bulbul Chautala. Tara gets Babli free by offering them all the money, but discovers that Chandel has tracked them down and kidnapped all the kids in the orphanage. Now Babli and Tara sneak into the Chautala couple's house to steal back the money only to be confronted by them. On knowing the whole story, the Chautala couple decides to help. Babli goes in with all the cash and negotiates with Chandel to set all the kids free, but just then Chautala barges in with his police force leading to a shoot out. Later, in a one-on-one fight, Babli beats Chandel in black and blue and rescues all the kids. The story ends with the childless Chautala couple deciding to adopt Babli and not let him be a thief anymore.


Film composer Lalit Pandit confirmed that he was asked to work on the film's soundtrack and that it would consist of six tracks;[9] Pandit also stated that the music was completed in the film's pre-production stages as per the instructions of director Kashyap.[9]


Besharam was promoted extensively on TV shows like Comedy Nights with Kapil, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Jhalak Dikhla Jaa, and also many reality shows etc.[14] Ranbir and Pallavi also promoted the film in New York with Diwali Bash at Times Square and in London and Dubai.[15][16]


Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 1.5 stars out of 5 and stated that the film proves the adage "'All that glitters is not gold' is absolutely right. The film is a huge disappointment."[31]


Mohar Basu of Koimoi gave it 1.5 stars out of 5 and felt that "Besharam has too many shortcomings and lacks the ravishing junk delight of calamitous ending that commercial flicks usually generate".[32]


Sarit Ray of the Hindustan Times described Besharam as "a senseless saga of shamelessness" and rated it only half a star out of 5, describing it further as: "[T]he cinematic equivalent of a dinner made with leftovers. There is a bit of everything, nothing is exactly fresh, and in the end, you're left wondering if it was wise to have chucked it all in together. Except, in this case, it isn't home-cooked food, but a meal you must pay for."[33]


Mohammad Kamran Jawaid of Dawn gave the film a mixed review writing that "it is apparent that Mr. Kashyap wanted a slickly made conventional blockbuster, and therefore relies on a mixture of tired and inflexible elements the audience is known to respond to". He continues further that "if Mr. Kashyap would have concentrated on keeping "Besharam" original, then it would have been a far better enterprise. Right here, right now, it's kinda lame, but not despicable or detestable as the title suggests".[34]


It would be nice if this were an aberration. It's not always possible to get everything exactly right when making a movie. But it is possible to get at least one or two things right, and "Besharam" can barely meet that threshold.


To be perfectly clear, the problem is not Ranbir Kapoor, who gives a committed lead performance as Babli, a car thief. The character is built up in typical "He's the best there is!" action movie terms before his proper introduction, whereupon he's revealed as a bumbler who very nearly gets caught during the film's first theft, then wrecks the vehicle and has to get a new, non-destroyed one to appease Jaffrey's gangster. Unfortunately, this is a pattern throughout "Besharam," a film that keeps promising things it can't or won't deliver.


The title translates to "shameless," and Babli is called "shameless" by nearly everyone he encounters, including bumbling, corrupt cops Chubul Chautala (Rishi Kapoor) and Bulbul Chautala (Neetu Kapoor), and the presumptive love interest Tara (Pallavi Sharda, with whom the hero has as little romantic chemistry as has ever been seen in a film). Despite the endless repetition of the word, there isn't a whole lot of actual shamelessness on display. Babli steals cars for a living and donates all the proceeds to the orphanage where he grew up and still lives, fairly shamelessly, but the moment he lays eyes on Tara, he suddenly is overcome with a desire to reform. It could be that the movie itself is what's shameless, in its substitution of urination and defecation for actual jokes, and references to other movies and movie stars in the place of an actual movie.


Most of the blame has to fall to writer-director Abhinav Kashyap. The story is barely a story. The love interest (who is never anything more than that, despite lame attempts to play her up as a modern businesswoman) falls in love with the hero when it's expedient for the plot, then morphs into a submissive, helpless, sighing clich. Endangering children to jack up a film's tension is just as much of a clich, and even more distasteful.


All of this bad storytelling is accompanied by listless, perfunctory filmmaking. "Besharam" has some of the worst editing of any professionally-released movie in years, with everything from pacing to visual legibility suffering terribly. It is very difficult to reconcile this as the work of the man who made 2010's smash hit "Dabangg," which, while far from perfect, still had nifty action sequences and the great item number "Munni Badnaam." The title song is the closest "Besharam" comes to recapturing that glory; but even then, the serviceable if not terribly original "have Ranbir dance around in a faux leather suit with a few dozens models fawning over him" template gives way to terribly shot and badly matted images of Ranbir Kapoor flying around with a lime rind on his head. What can you say about a film that carries every idea it has to the most uninteresting conclusion imaginable?


In the end, all we are left with is an annoying, pointless and above all boring film which feels as outdated as the threadbare cinema seat I had unfortunately parked myself on for two long hours. At least those seats would have a more interesting story to tell.


Babli is a street smart car mechanic living in a Delhi orphanage. He is charming and lives life to the fullest. He also steals cars to support his orphanage. He has no sense of right or wrong till he unwittingly hurts the love of his life, Tara. Babli realizes that there is no right way of doing the wrong thing. Babli sets out to fix all the wrongs in his life and he continues to be shameless about it.


You've got to love Ranbir Kapoor and he has his regular rascally goodness in this film. There is a lot going on that, I'm not going to lie, pulled me out of my suspension of disbelief- such as random and inexplicable kung fu skills by basically every character. But the over the top nature is fun and the songs and dance sequences are beautifullydesigned and choreographed.


Everything else about the film is either bad or over-the-top in an unfunny way. I can imagine five year-olds saying to Kapoor: "Dude, dial it back!" This performance makes early Jerry Lewis and early Jim Carrey look like staid, Shakespearean actors. No doubt there is plenty of satrical comment on tropes in Indian films, but what came through to me was a script that was desperate for laughs...and not getting many.


it's a shame that ranbir, rishi ji and neetu ji came together for this horrible movie. this is the worst performance of ranbir imo even tho he did well in some scenes but overall he overacted a lot specially in the comedy and flirtatious scenes. i liked the soundtrack tho but the movie was insanely bad.


Besharam had all the elements of being a kitsch blockbuster. But it went over-the-top, and that's what got it down. A little more over-the-top and it could easily have been a Milap Zaveri film. As an aspiring Bollywood tribute film maker, I need to watch a lot of such films and take notes.


This narrative of getting ahead on "merit" reminds me of the snooty savarnas who merit-shamed a young Dalit girl called Anitha, until she took her own life. She, too, was let down by a system that claimed to reward merit even while favouring certain people and excluding others.




Unlike the Kapoors, I am a well-read person and yet zaalim zamana has informed me that my identity is not as likely to succeed as theirs. Close-knit fields, from cricket to the corporate sector, are dominated by hetero savarna males. The Hindi film industry is no exception.




The same privilege allows him to be misogynistic and still be revered. Remember when he fat-shamed Huma Qureshi? And remember his own domestic violence allegations? He also wanted to change the heroine in Wake Up Sid to someone younger, Ranbir Kapoor once said in an interview.

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