What happens when you have too many chilies? You pray for water. Your sorrow continues when you don't get it. BOOM is an example of loads of spicy stuff with little amount of substance in it. With so much hype centered personally for all bold steamy scenes and rapturous models, a cinema freak like me can't stop raving. With talks of JISM, I believe BOOM is far ahead in the competition. If using illicit scenes, cheap dialogues and star studded publicity is 'New Age Cinema', they sorry Mr. Kaizad, I am not for it.
Anu Gaikwad (Madhu Sapre), Sheila Bardez (Padma Lakshmi) and Rina Kaif (Katrina Kaif) are three top super models who stay together. They have excelled in their field and are well known faces in the fashion circuit. During one of the fashion shows, Anu trips on the ramp and holds one of her competitors, Michelle, responsible for this. She immediately picks up a fight with her on the ramp itself.
Michelle is a model who is into smuggling diamonds worth at least Rs 50 crore. Her modus operandi is that she hides the diamonds in her hair to smuggle them across the borders. On the ramp, while Anu picks up a figh with her, her hair gets loose and all the diamonds fall all over the ramp. The celebrities, the lens man and the crowd in general, waste no time in running away with them. Next day, all the newspapers make a huge story out of it. This upsets three dons who were to get the diamonds.
Cut to the three dons: Abdul 50/50 alias Chote Mia (Jackie Shroff), famous for getting 50 per cent out of every deal, Middle Mia (Gulshan Grover) also known as Cut-Piece Saleem Suiting-Shirting and Bade Mia (Amitabh Bachchan), based in Dubai. Chote sends Shankar to hunt for the models responsible for this mess. What happens hereafter forms the rest of the story.
The film starts off pretty well -- the scuffle on the ramp, with diamonds falling all over -- but the introduction of the characters [Jaaved Jaaferi, Jackie Shroff] subsequently throw a spanner in the narrative. Strangely, the performances are not what you expect from an enterprise like this. One wonders what Bachchan -- with his stature and calibre -- found for in a script like this for giving his consent to an insipid role. The veteran has a substantial role [unlike the feeling that he's hardly there!], but the length of any character has nothing to do with the scope to exhibit histrionics. The director has wasted the veteran in a role that could've been essayed by just about anyone.
Jackie Shroff lets you down; he has certain dialogues but he coxes so much you hardly listen to them. Gulshan Grover is too good. Seema Biswas and Javed Jaffrey play their parts well but Zeenat Aman is the surprise package. Watch out for her table dance in "App Jaisa Koi Mere Zindagi Main Aaye." Bo-Derek is wasted in her role.
The movie BOOM is realistic in its concept and hats off to Kaizad for bringing an unusual plot. No doubt BOOM'S story is told in a different way but it will be purely based on luck if it has to run in Bollywood. At the box-office, the film has tremendous curiosity value, but that's about it! The film has taken a flying start at the ticket window, but it just doesn't have the sustaining power to hold on the interest after the initial craze subsides. Below average.
