Boom - English with occasional Hindi words
Habshi
One day , maybe 20 years from now all Bollywood movies will be
made this way , so watch them now while you can .
Skinny fashion models , drinking , smoking ciggarettes and
bhang, using f words in every second sentence . Thankfully its a short
2 hr film but seems longer because it has just one short song.
All men should keep an eye on their sexometer . Does one
really get turned on by women in tight jeans and low cut blouses with
the boobs and nipples showing on occasions ? The answer clearly is no
.Zeenat Aman is good , singing dum maro dum again, Amitabh is very
good .Bo Derek has a non speaking part . Katrina Kaif is a peach and
she is one her way to becoming a great Bollywood actress . She will
be just great in Indian dresses .
Salman's Rushdie's girlfriend is good . The dresses are the
pits . Even when the boobs are showing , they dont seem so interesting
unless there are sparkly bits around . Probably will attract fatwas
because all the bad characters are Dawod type Dubai based .
Definitely worth watching zero times .
photo on
http://www.indiafm.com/
Habshi
res video camera instead of 70mm
Habshi
level to show the great hotel and sights
excerpt indiatimes.com
So, why come back with Boom?
Well, I am not part of Bollywood. I don’t know anyone in Bollywood. I
don’t have any involvement with Bollywood. I like the outsider
perspective I have. The lives of those who are a part of Bollywood
revolve around box-office collections and on-the-set happenings —
that’s not what I want.
A lot of people think Boom is a very weird film. What’s your take?
Boom is a weird film. I don’t know how it will do. There has never
been anything like Boom in India. Had Boom been a small movie with no
stars, no one would have given a damn. Just because Amitabh Bachchan,
along with three supermodels and Bo Derek are a part of the film,
everyone is talking about Boom. Everyone in the film is a villain.
Boom has no love story, no emotions. Everyone is out to get everybody
else. I guess all this makes Boom a weird film.
Niraj Agarwalla
> Cinematography is terrible . As if the movie is shot by low
> res video camera instead of 70mm
I think that was the director's intention. Many gangster film and
crime dramas are shot this way in order to visualize the grittiness of
the world the criminals inhabit.
And no film has been shot in 70mm in ages. Most films are shot in the
standard 35mm film stock. But as digital technology gets better,
except film to be marginalized.
Niraj
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my decision of watching a Hindi flick on a theatre after such a long time.
Hindi Movie? Yup, for no understandable logic, even the PVR Priya ran the
Hindi version of the Movie. OMFG this was a sad sad day. The movie was not
a movie after all. More like a fashion show with some weirdo background
thrown in. Whole of the movie was concentrated on the three idiot models.
Loads of footage was given to the bulging bosoms and tiny pieces of
garments they accidentally were wearing. This when the movie cast
consisted of 4 of the most talented actors of this generation. Amitabh
Bachchan, Javed Jaffrey, Gulshan Grover and Jackie Shroff - These 4 guys
are awesome in themselves but all are wasted. Making the models, the
center point of the movie was a mistake. But this stands true only if
Kaizad Gustad in fact was trying to make a movie. The saving grace was
definitely Zeenat Amaan who still is capable of kicking any of the
featured model's ass. Among the cameos, I liked Rohit Bal best. He proved
that the models can learn something about acting from him.
Irony of the movie: When Jackie Shroff compared the models to his ahem
ahem employee Pavitra. That was awesome. Some food for thought!
In one sentence: If you are looking for a movie with some logic, skip it.
But perhaps no one wants/expects it to be a movie after all… not even the
director, I suppose.
Someone tell me this. IMDB list Manish Malhotra, Naseeruddin Shah and
various other celebrities in the star cast as special appearances. I can't
remember catching these. Perhaps they came when I slept tired of kicking
my own ass...
IMDB's User Comments: THE WORST MOVIE EVER
I don't agree. Aks was worse.
Habshi
that it doesnt bore you as you do expect it to get better.
Jackie Shroff spends the whole time in a cocaine stupor getting b..
..s under the table while he is interviewing new models .
habshi
excerpt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1051655,00.html
Now I'm here and I think I'm on the verge of doing it. There are
fantastic opportunities here in India and plenty of room for talent."
If his film deal goes through, Patel, a male model, won't quite be the
first British Asian to break into Bollywood. That honour goes to
Katrina Kaif, 20, also a model, from Finchley in north-west London.
She has exploded into the big time with one of the year's biggest and
most notorious releases: the fashion world-meets-underworld thriller
Boom.
The UK's Asians have always been obsessive watchers of Bollywood
films: Britain has the biggest audience for Hindi films outside India
and represents a big contribution to the industry's £500m annual
turnover. However, while Indian movie talents (including director
Shekar Kapoor and actor Om Puri) have found success in western cinema,
British Asians have been only fans of Bollywood films, not players in
them.
All that is now changing. The actor who first promised to make British
Asians hot property in Bombay was Kaif, thanks to her performance in
Boom. She still could, despite the shocked reaction to the film when
it was released a couple of weeks ago. The film, also starring Padma
Lakshmi (Salman Rushdie's partner), was billed as bravely experimental
by India's conservative standards. But it has been panned by critics
horrified at the amount of skin and crudity on offer.
Admittedly, Kaif's big break may not give her the profile she hoped
for - one critic's unkind view was that she was "made to look and feel
irreparably retarded". The film itself has been derided. Final
Frontier of Debauchery, Boom Bombs and From Boom to Doom were some of
the headlines in India's Bollywood-obsessed press. But it has got Kaif
the attention a new actor needs. Her dreamy face is splashed all over
Bombay's billboards and magazine covers. Her foreignness created a
stir, marking her out from the dozens of actors who launch each year -
most of whom sink without trace.
The film, shot in "Hinglish" (Hindi-English) and touted as a crossover
project with appeal to east and west, breaks many Bollywood
traditions. There are no dance sequences and it pushes at the
frontiers of what is tolerated sexually in conservative India.
Gangsters grab their crotches and get blow jobs under the table while
models flaunt and tease their way through a film with a plot as flimsy
as their bikinis.
Kaif, who says she was picked because of her ability to look naive,
shows a lot more skin than other demure starlets, and she has a
seduction scene that has worked the critics into a lather. It's not
surprising that this has caused a fuss: this is a land where, until
recently, on-screen kisses were carefully timed by the censor, and
actresses are still accompanied to shoots by their mothers. The film
may sink her career; it certainly has not done well at the box office,
despite the furore. Then again, it might just propel her into the big
time.
Kaif admits that she felt uneasy with Boom when it was finished, and
says now that she regrets doing it. She blames her lack of experience
with Indian culture - her mother, a lawyer, is English and her father,
a businessman, is Kashmiri, and she grew up outside the Asian
community. "I wouldn't have worried if it had been an English film,"
she says. "Exposing skin is accepted in the English film culture. But
no way will this be accepted here, and the image projected by Boom is
not me."
Despite this hiccup, Kaif is enthusiastic about India's film world:
"Everyone is so warm and friendly here. It's so colourful and fun. I'm
going to stay in Bombay for good. I really wanted to get away from
London, I was bored with it. It's struggle, struggle all the time
there."
Patel agrees; he is surprised at how easy it was to blaze a trail in
Bombay. "I think in London the Asian look is not really in," he says.
"Modelling in London was really difficult, and acting, forget it. But
here, being an NRI [non-resident Indian] makes you a bit exotic. The
entertainment industry is massive and there are no barriers. New TV
serials are starting every week, there are lots of film-makers, lots
of modelling work. For any other British Asians, I would say, if
you've got the talent, there are opportunities here if you work hard."
Kaif, however, does not believe being an NRI is any advantage. "If
anything, the overseas Indian market wants women who are Indianised,"
she says. "And they tell me here I have a classical Indian face." She
says coming to Bombay has involved a discovery of her Indian identity.
She has struggled to learn Hindi - not knowing the language has
already cost her a couple of film roles - but says she feels more at
home in Bombay than she ever did in England. "I feel more Indian here.
In London people say, 'You can't be Indian,' but here they accept me."
Veteran director Mahesh Bhatt believes we'll be seeing a lot more
British Asians in Bollywood. "It's the sort of thing we must expect
with the globalisation of Indian film culture," he says. "And Hindi
films are almost like a religion for British Asians. Bollywood
connects Indians all over the world, and if they come from Birmingham
or London to get into our film industry, well, why not?"
Habshi
http://www.sulekha.com/movies/moviereview.asp?cid=305201
Click on her picture and then on 'more pictures'.