BOOM -> Review

22nd September 2003

'B O O M'

Coming straight to the point, 'Boom' is a landmark film. 'Fashion world meets the under world' is a definitely a different track, one which has never been tried before. It is incredible and it is preposterous. And after watching the two+ hours movie, it left me nonplussed.

I was in a daze. Yes, Boom is definitely a landmark film, a landmark in idiotism, one which would be impossible to surpass. You thank your stars that such a story has never been tried before, And yes, it is incredibly stupid. Everyone associated with Boom (including Amitabh
Bachchan) deserve a kick in the back.

It is usual not to get any tickets in current if it is a Amitabh Bachchan movie. So I didn't think much of buying tickets in 'black' but when the guy
who sold me the tickets himself told me that Boom was no great shakes but for the skin show), I was taken aback. So I went in with no expectations out of it. But the magnitude of this disaster called Boom was so huge that I still came out disappointed. Just imagine for one second, you go in with no expectations and still come out disappointed. Over the years I have watched a ~lot~ of movies, but I can safely say that I haven't seen something as bad as Boom. Yes, 'Guddu' was better.

Summarily, Boom is a story of three supermodels (with some sundry
names) and three underworld dons Bade Miyan(Big B), Medium(Gulshan Grover) and Chote Miyan(Jackie shroff) and the sidekick Shankar(Jaaved 'pelvic thrust' Jaffery). How they get involved is a rather unimaginative plot about some lost diamonds which cost an equally obscene amount. Aesthetically, the film doesn't deserve any remarks
since it signifies nothing.

If I say Boom is 'High on hype and low on content', that would be the biggest understatement of this rather new century, but one, which would be difficult to beat nevertheless. Boom has no content at all. Some people might say that it is atleast glossy, I would beg to differ. It is pure crap. And some would say that it is abstract, I'd rather have those guys in lunatic asylums because it is cheap and it is vulgar .

THERE IS NO ART, NO SUBSTANCE, NO SOUL, NO GLOSS, NO CONTENT AND NO SENSE IN BOOM.

And one more thing, the greatest sin that can be done while making a movie is to cast Amitabh Bachchan and then have nothing to do for him. Amitabh Bachchan is in a role which could have been played easily by MacMahon. What a shame, how low the Big B has stooped for money...

Amitabh Bachchan is arguably, one of the two, most over-exposed actors of our time (other one being Abhishek Bachchan) and he is failing his fans day in and day out by doing things like this...

Stay at home and watch "kyunki saas bhi...". It is infinitely better
than Boom.