What a Badmaashi!

Movie: Badmaash Company

Director: Parmeet Sethi

Cast: Shahid Kapur, Anushka Sharma, Veer Das, Meiyang Chang

Genre: Heist/Con

Rating: *

Ludicrous and boring! This is my reaction to the movie. I didn’t find anything worthy of entertainment in this movie. The so-called badmaashi didn’t appeal to me. The content seems to be so ingenuous that I have my doubts!

The narrative is not really innovative. The movie begins with Shahid and his friends making trip to Bangkok for a retailer. This trip frames Shahid’s perception of life and influences him to earn money quickly through unscrupulous means. Meanwhile, our hero has ample time to romance his girl and lead a lavish lifestyle with his bumchums. The screenplay explores Shahid’s rise and fall and then again a rise with hardly a bother from my end.

Here are few reasons why this movie could be in your AVOID list:

• Boring direction
• Dull storyline
• Foolish dialogues
• No solid grounding of the happenings in the movie
• Non-happening music
• Lack of emotions, thrills,suspense, characterization

Everything seems a cake walk in the movie. Having great ideas is not enough; execution matters a lot. The hero travels to US from Mumbai with much ease and elan.  I recollect Meiyang Chang  only indulging in finest liquors. (Hope, I didn’t fall asleep when he came on screen!) Veer Das seems wasted. Shahid acts amateurishly and I have no comments for Anushka. I feel bad that a fine actor like Pavan Malhotra has to play such poorly written roles! How can Yashraj even produce such a movie?

I don’t feel anything for any of the characters. Is this what Parmeet Sethi wrote in six days? True as they say, haste is waste. I don’t at all discourage the director but it’s necessary for the filmmaker to realize that if movie making is meant only to realize creative aspirations then better make the movie for home viewing. Don’t waste the hard earned money of the movie bufsf and scores of Hindi movie fans. Come on man! Deliver something that truly makes me feel that there is enough of true badmaashi and make me watch your movie over and over again!