Review of Bombay Boys
ra...@rocketmail.com
It rarely happens that one feels like rewinding a movie for a second
viewing, immediately after the first. But that's exactly how i felt after
watching the funny, satirical, irreverent, riotous 2 hour flick called
"BombayBoys". The movie is fastpaced and full of gags ,that there is hardly
a dull moment. There are quiet number of reasons for making this movie into a
"mustsee" category for regular(and partly regular)moviegoers of Indian films.
The first would be to see Naseer's awesome performance as the Sadistic and
Eccentric BollywoodFilmProducercumDon. The next would be to see something
really different in terms of content, dialogues, treatment - in an hindi
movie (it's partly Hindi and mostly English, but i would still call this a
hindi movie). Then, here is one movie which doesn't take the audience for
granted with drivel. The dialogues are common-place; Direction is novel;
Acting is superb (by almost everyone) and natural; Background score is in
tune with the movie. Songs are funny and situation based. The movie in the
movie evokes laughter and is partly a spoof on the thrashy nature of
Bollywood film making.
It starts off with three "desi firangis" (as they are constantly referred
to) from US, Australia and UK , stepping into Bombay, each on their own
missions. NavinAndrews (the kamasutra guy) is from Newyork and wants to make
it as a "hero" in Hindi movies. AlexanderGifford (looks like WasimAkram) is
from London and wants to "find himself" in India; RahulBose is from Australia
in search of his brother. All three of them group together and rent an
apartment whose landlord is a gay (delightfully played by Roshan seth). The
rest of the movie deals with the pursuit of their respective goals -- How
Navin meets and gets sucked into the moviemaking of a sadistic producer whose
only intention is to make a Flop and bad(very bad) movie; How Rahul searches
and finds his brother and at the same time how he gets into a relationship
with the producer's paramour (Taradeshpande). How Alexander goes about in his
vague search of music and gay identity (vague shades of In&Out here);
The film is filled with dialgoues which shock
with their directness and evoke laughter with
their comicness. Look at the introduction scene
of Naseer - "What i look like? Kiriminal?"
And then there is that hilarious dismissive statement
about Screentest; - "wohi Chu**yapanthi- fight, dance,
song, rape, usual story , every philm" ;
The much talked about shocking scenes are more
of a joke. The scene where these three guys do
a male strip in front of middleaged aunties is
done in levity ; Same goes with the Kissing scene
between Naseer and Tara- here you need to watch
Naseer's range of emotions- how he dismisses the
photographer with a callous flick of finger etc".
Also hilarious is the gay jealousy which Roshan
feels when Alexander rushes off with another hunk.
Mumbling with anger and range he goes and picks
a male prostitute from the streets. Sometimes one
feels the director has done scenes to just mock
at the regular filmi stuff. For eg, when Roshan
goes to meet Tara, he's bashed up by the toughies
patrolling her place. Tired of bashing him, the toughies lie that she is not
there and he walks of
without a whimper!
There is a dig about ShivSena too, when an official
brings a notice for changing the Musical band Bombay
Boy's name to Mumbai Boys ;-)
Also watch out for the scene where Naveen is
forced to mouth romantic dialogues with a beedismoking
baldie sitting before him as a standin for the herione.
One couldn't stop bursting out with laughter at this
scene.
Movie sponsorship by companies is also not sparred
from the digs.
check out the scenes involving "cherry blossom Kaalia"
and Nike.
The ending is pretty funny too. I liked the
one where the "Bangladeshi Bombay boys music troupe"
give a concert for Bangladesh Flood relief fund.
On the acting front, Naseer leads the pack with
an awesome performance. Rest of the cast are
competent.
Definitely worth watching.
cheers
raj
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ra...@rocketmail.com wrote:
> Navin meets and gets sucked into the moviemaking of a sadistic producer whose
> only intention is to make a Flop and bad(very bad) movie;
sounds like mel brook's classic 'the producers' staring zero mostel.
> The much talked about shocking scenes are more
> of a joke. The scene where these three guys do
> a male strip in front of middleaged aunties is
> done in levity ;
a little bit of 'the full monty' maybe?
>
> Definitely worth watching.
>
Sounds like a fun movie, despite copying from various movies. And, it has been
so long that one has seen a good performance from Naseer. And that begs a
question to be asked: whatever happened to the art(or parallel) cinema? Is
anyone even making any quality(read: non-commercial) hindi films any more?
Thanks for the recommendation. Is this movie available on video - VHS or DVD?
Cheers,
Anil P. Hingorani