Producers: Kiran Shyam Shroff, Ashmith Kunder, Kushan Nandy
Director: Kushan Nandy
Star Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Bidita Bag, Divya Dutta and Jatin
Goswami
Genre: Drama
Rating: ***
Loopholes Galore!
Babu Bihari (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a hired gun who works for the sleazy businessman Dubey (Anil George) and the paan-chewing, expletives-spouting politician Sumitra (Divya Dutta). Soon enough, he has competition in another sharpshooter, Banke Bihari (Jatin Goswami), who is roped in by the power brokers to supplement Babu Bihari’s killing spree and Banke and Babu start gunning for each other.
PLUS POINTS:
While Nawazuddin Siddiqui does not have anything new as far as his histrionic is concerned, Jatin impresses as Banke Bihari. Bidita Bag scores with her natural and lively performance and her sensuousness adds a new dimension to her role as a cobbler girl.
MINUS POINTS:
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz has nothing to offer other than ample of cleavage display, raw sex and generous amount of expletives, killings and objectification of women. The story has been stretched to over two hours which simply tests your patience level. It hurtles towards an insipid, unintelligible climax, which includes a bout of Russian roulette between two adversaries. Babu Bihari lives with Phulwa (Bidita Bag) and Banke Bihari is in a relationship with the local dancer Yasmin (Shraddha Das), but after a point it stops to matter who is with whom.
VERDICT:
The script has plenty of loopholes especially in the second half. Sadly, the film ends up being a poor rehash of Gangs Of Wasseypur.
