I would never have gone to watch this movie if the media had not made such a hoopla about it.
The film is clearly inspired by Bonnie and Clyde. There is nothing great about the storyline. Bollywood has made scores of films on adventurers from small towns out to try their luck in the big bad world.
The music is loud and jarring. I have read elsewhere that it sounds "Bihari". I would say that it tries to imitate the sound of the folk music of the region which then comes out sounding common and totally unmemorable. I was amazed to learn that SEL had composed the score.
There are, however, a few brilliant moments.
Amitabh as the drunken cop gone to seed is fabulous. He plays his role to perfection down to the cynical sneering smile and the awful jokes that he makes when he is questioning the riffraff of UP.
Abhishek--hang in there! You have it in you. You are what we call a late bloomer. You are good especially as the safari suited, paan box holding con man in Agra.
Aishwarya's dance in which she comes out looking like a seedy trollop is SUPERB. The dance moves, the song, the choreography all justify the addition of what is euphemistically called an "item number"
The movie redeems itself at the end when we watch the two protagonists finally being able to make their escape from their REAL prison-- their stifling middle class existence in a small town in the back waters of Eastern UP. That is where I saw the real Bunty and Babli.
The film is clearly inspired by Bonnie and Clyde. There is nothing great about the storyline. Bollywood has made scores of films on adventurers from small towns out to try their luck in the big bad world.
The music is loud and jarring. I have read elsewhere that it sounds "Bihari". I would say that it tries to imitate the sound of the folk music of the region which then comes out sounding common and totally unmemorable. I was amazed to learn that SEL had composed the score.
There are, however, a few brilliant moments.
Amitabh as the drunken cop gone to seed is fabulous. He plays his role to perfection down to the cynical sneering smile and the awful jokes that he makes when he is questioning the riffraff of UP.
Abhishek--hang in there! You have it in you. You are what we call a late bloomer. You are good especially as the safari suited, paan box holding con man in Agra.
Aishwarya's dance in which she comes out looking like a seedy trollop is SUPERB. The dance moves, the song, the choreography all justify the addition of what is euphemistically called an "item number"
The movie redeems itself at the end when we watch the two protagonists finally being able to make their escape from their REAL prison-- their stifling middle class existence in a small town in the back waters of Eastern UP. That is where I saw the real Bunty and Babli.