Bol Bachchan Movie Reviews

Action and humor are two genres of cinema that work predominantly well in the large screen set-up. Films like WANTED, DABANGG, READY, BODYGUARD, ROWDY RATHORE and all of Rohit Shetty's movies are examples of movies that not only entertained the masses, the aam junta, but were incredibly victorious at the ticket window as well. Most actors prefer to work in movies that are mass appealing, besides being a big draw at the box-office

You know those heart-charts they have in hospitals, the ones that trace a person's heartbeat up and down in waves? Bol Bachchan (BB) reminds you often of one of those. Rohit Shetty's latest movie has a constant up-and-down aspect to it, one sequence making you shriek in your seat with laughter, another sending your mind wandering off to the mundane. But at the very heart of things - Shetty's madly in love with the movies and BB is his homage

Instead keeping Rohit Shetty’s earlier comic works as a yardstick may help in understanding what to expect in this film. Rohit Shetty’s penchant for absurd humour and love for the outrageous happily subverts the entire premise of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s masterpiece. So, Utpal Dutt’s love for the purity of Hindi language has been twisted to show Ajay Devgn’s (as Prithviraj) usage of English phrases like, umm, “Please bring some fresh fuls and fruitables.”

Ajay Devgan films and Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd.’s Bol Bachchan is a remake of the comedy, Golmaal. Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) is forced by circumstances to move to a village with his sister, Sania (Asin), in search of a job. After Abbas saves the life of a kid, the village strongman, Prithviraj Raghuvanshi (Ajay Devgan), hires him as the supervisor of his estate. But Prithviraj thinks that Abbas is named Abhishek Bachchan, a lie that Abbas does not dispel

The basic narrative of Bol Bachchan, more or less, follows that of the 1979 Golmaal and thereby Rohit Shetty’s film has a defined flow, which saves it from wandering aimlessly. Bettering the original would be an impractical idea that, perhaps, even Shetty is aware of. So he simply attempts to stay true to the original and keeps the cult scenes and characters untouched. So Archana Puran Singh reprises Dina Pathak’s role and poses as the mother (and also her twin sister) and makes the same backdoor entry when the scene demands it.

Comedy of errors is amongst one of the most popular and maximum exploited sub-genres in comedy. The humour, particularly, arising out of confusion of mistaken identities has been exploited in Bollywood forever from David Dhawan's Coolie No.1 to Sajid Khan's Housefull series, in more recent times. So when Rohit Shetty, who himself attempted the genre earlier in All The Best (his most enjoyable comedy film yet), and who made a brand of himself

Rohit Shetty obviously really likes Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Gol Maal. Not only has he made three trashy films called Golmaal this and Golmaal that, but has now remade the original as well. Well, sort of. Bol Bachchan is not so much a homage to the Amol Palekar-Utpal Dutt classic as it is a delirious get-together of friends going mental over an old movie they adore. Bol Bachchan doesn’t pretend to be anywhere near the league of films to which the 1979 comedy belongs

Director: Rohit Shetty Cast: Abhishek Bachchan,  Asin, Prachi Desai, Ajay Devgan, Asrani, Archana Puran Singh Synopsis: Abbas Ali (Abhishek......

Golmaal hai bhai sab golmaal hai! After his blockbuster sequels to Golmaal, ‘hit’ man Rohit Shetty has now remade Gol Maal. Thankfully not his own. But unfortunately the Hrishikesh Mukherjee classic. Because while on one hand it’s a loose retelling of the Amol Palekar-Utpal Dutt-laugh riot, on the other it feels like a never-ending episode of Comedy Circus. The same TV show Shetty judged for three seasons. Loud, lousy, ludicrous… Bol Bachchan is the kind of film

Lying needs imagination. Whether you're fabricating, exaggerating or distorting the truth. And the much loved filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukerjee showcased the art and wit behind this theory to perfection in rich comedies like Chupke Chupke, Naram Garam and Gol Maal. His protagonists were legendary fibbers, engaged in an harmless prank or making up a pack of ingenious lies to tackle a recurring target-- the eccentric elderly

This is a Rohit Shetty film. Which means it is full of primary colours. I counted a red-blue-green-yellow palette more than a couple of times, all in the same frame. It is full of cars and jeeps hurtling down roads and crashing and smashing. It is full of Ajay Devgn, which is a given because Shetty and Devgn are long-time collaborators; plus, the star is the producer of the film. But this time around, there’s a slight difference. It’s also got Abhishek Bachchan

"I am not in the film, only my name is." Amitabh Bachchan declares as much after the rollicking title item song has played out right at the start. For the sake of our funny bones, we wish Big B was in the film. He would have perhaps added a few genuine laughs. The glitch about Rohit Shettyâ??s new farce fest lies in the lead cast. It is quite alright to imagine Ajay Devgn as a gaon ka pehelwan. Put the guy in a banian and give him a mace, and trademark brawn

Bol Bachchan is a remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s classic Gol Maal (1979). We roll down with laughter every time we catch the rerun of the original on TV. The humour of the original was restrained and sublime. The acting, specially the stand off between Amol Palekar and Utpal Dutt was marvelous. Nothing was over the top and silly. The set pieces seemed plausible enough. Director Rohit Shetty’s version is none of that. It’s the opposite of everything Gol Maal stood for

It was supposed to be Hrishikesh Mukherjee meets Rohit Shetty but it’s more Singham colliding with Welcome against the backdrop of Golmaal of the 70s. That’s premise enough for an uproarious comedy which alas, falls because of an un-funny second half. The plot: Just like blondes are considered to be slow-witted, Bol Bachchan takes the liberty to presume that pehelwans (body-builders) are all muscle, no mind. Watch pehelwan Prithviraj Raghuvanshi (Ajay Devgn) who practically rules Ranakpur

This is a Rohit Shetty film. Which means it is full of primary colours. I counted a red-blue-green-yellow palette more than a couple of times, all in the same frame. It is full of cars and jeeps hurtling down roads and crashing and smashing. It is full of Ajay Devgn, which is a given because Shetty and Devgn are long-time collaborators; plus, the star is the producer of the film. But this time around, there’s a slight difference. It’s also got Abhishek Bachchan

Bol Bachchan is dispensable cinema, forgotten almost immediately after it’s over. What I kept wondering is how does Asrani who acted in Mukerjee’s acclaimed films like Chupke Chupke, Abhimaan, Bawarchi feel about working in the remake of a film where the hero wore his kurta. Don’t know what I’m talking about? You deserve Bol Bachchan. But if you do, you must have already begun scouting for your copy of Gol Maal somewhere.

If your nosy is not turned up too high, ‘Bol Bachchan’, less blaring than your standard Rohit Shetty comedy, can give you sporadic chuckles, and a few helpess laughs. Can’t expect more.

Bol Bachchan falls a bit short of delivering what it promised. A few excellent scenes, a few good scenes and a quite a lot of boring scenes is how I would describe the film. It doesn’t have the laugh-a-minute quality of Shetty’s earlier comedies but is still a decent time pass flick to be enjoyed with family or friends. Keep your expectations low and you may end up having a good time.

A few years ago, I interviewed the Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. She had recently blazed into the spotlight with her ferocious performance as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film version of the blockbuster novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. A-list Hollywood director David Fincher had just started casting the same role for a big-budget English version of the film. It was one of the most coveted roles of the time. But despite the obvious temptations of the project

Bol Bachchan', directed by Rohit Shetty, revels gleefully in its silliness. This is a film whose pedestrian humor requires neither taste nor common sense to appreciate, and anyone seeking wit, a clever screenplay, or inspired performances might want to revisit Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Gol Maal, which Shetty plunders in the name of inspiration for this lazy film. After losing their ancestral home to greedy relatives, Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) and his sister Sania

There are four outrageously funny sequences in Bol Bachchan, all of them having their genesis in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s delectable Golmaal. Archana Puran Singh takes over from Dina Pathak, and before you express outrage, you must brace for the fact that she plays a naachne-gaanewali as opposed to Pathak’s struggling actor. Dressed in vidhwa costume, a grey wig to go with it, she greets Prithvi Raj Raghuvanshi (Devgn, Shetty’s Utpal Dutt) with an aadab

‘When two adults get cosy, younger don’t put nosey!’ booms Prithviraj (Ajay). Well, if you have the courage to stomach dialogues like these — of which there is no dearth — then Bol Bachchan might just make you laugh, albeit at the silliness of it all. No doubt that the film’s inspired by the classic Golmaal, but then Rohit’s lavishly added to it his own Singham-inspired heavy-duty action and his own Golmaal-inspired slapstick humour. All in all, making it a masala comedy

So first, an admission: Was this reviewer entertained by Bol Bachchan? Yes, she was. But this reviewer has terribly low standards. She'd have been just as entertained by this mindless Rohit Shetty caper had she caught it on television, at matinee hour, while sitting down to lunch with her parents and her dogs. She'd have laughed at all the right moments, forgiven the absolute lack of regard for the laws of elementary physics and even have turned a blind eye

A one-line review saying “this is a Rohit Shetty” film would suffice for most movies this director churns out with billion-rupee regularity, but “Bol Bachchan” is different. This time, Shetty has attempted to remake one of Hindi cinema’s most iconic comedies, one which shares its name with the series of films that gave Shetty his first hits in the industry. In re-imagining “Gol Maal“, Shetty is taking up a gauntlet that he should have left well alone

If you liked the Shetty Golmaals and Singham, this review will only be bol bachchan for you. Have fun while it lasts.

This one’s strictly for Bollywood junkies whose funny bones are easy to tickle. Yes, Bol Bachchan is a hot air balloon with no air, hot or otherwise. So expect no genuine comic highs. It is certainly not my cup of lassi, as Prithviraj Raghuvanshi, the “I can talk English, I can walk English’ character played by Ajay Devgn, would say. But that’s not to say there is nobody in this world that might take a shine to this laboured comic carousel

One moment, a jeep in mid air goes right through the wind-shield of a bus, shattering the glass. A little later, another jeep rams through a truck carrying drums of water while buses overturn, and finally a car hangs by the edge of a cliff. You marvel at these stunt sequences as dozens of humans fly all over the place and Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan kick ass. You’d imagine this is a hardcore action film. Except, this is supposed to be a comedy

Amitabh Bachchan candidly announces at the end of the starting song that he is not in the movie, and only his name is used! Abhishek Bachchan is not so lucky!! BOL BACHCHAN in Mumbai lingo literally means one telling a tall tale. While the concept in itself is good, the way it has been thrust onto the viewer is juvenile. For one, Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) is the one who has to do Bol Bachchan. But sadly, his character is anything but Bol Bachchan

Lawyers beware. If you lose a property case, your client might just beat you up black and blue outside the court. Next: on being denied their family plot in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, the loser pair of brother and sister skedaddle to a weirdo townling called Ranakpur. Quite easily done. Fun? Not exactly. The screenplay of Bol Bachchan directed by Rohit Shetty — another aspirant to the100 crore-mark at the cash counters — is so weak that it’s a virtual termite-infested plank

The relationship between Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s original Golmaal and Rohit Shetty’s Bol Bachchan can be summed up in one of the ridiculous couplets that make up Bol Bachchan’s depressingly bad title song: “Where one represents a magnanimous name, While the other represents a horrendous game.” If this makes absolutely no sense to you, I apologise. A couple of hours in the world of Bol Bachchan is enough to make the best of us start to blabber

Just after a cameo jig in the title song, Big B offers a disclaimer: he isn’t a part of this film, even though his name is. And that is hint enough for the wise. But for those who don’t know, Bol Bachchan (BB) jams chopsticks up the nose of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s comic classic ‘Gol Maal’ and digs itself six feet under with it. While the story is same in theory, being a Rohit Shetty film only adds some cars nailing somersaults, trucks attempting a ballet

They say what can’t be cured, must be endured. Once you give in to that adage and ask your white matter to exit the theatre, you will enjoy the film. Watch ‘Bol Bachchan’ just for laughing.