Boom (2003/I)

Director:

Kaizad Gustad

Writer:

Kaizad Gustad (writer)

Release Date:

19 September 2003 (India)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

The fashion world meets the underworld

Plot:

The film centres around three female supermodels who live and work together. They belong to the international...

Plot Keywords:

Charm | Underworld | Three Dons | Supermodel | Male Dominated Society

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan	...	Bade Mia
Jackie Shroff	...	Abdul Wahab Barkatali Al Sabunchi 50 / 50 aka Chotte Mia
Gulshan Grover	...	Saleem Ahmad 'Cut-Piece Saleem Suiting Shirting' aka Meduim Mia
Padma Lakshmi	...	Shiela Bardez
Madhu Sapre	...	Anu Gaekwad
Katrina Kaif	...	Rina Kaif / Popdi Chinchpokli
Javed Jaffrey	...	Boom Shankar aka Boom Boom
Zeenat Aman	...	Alice Rodriguez De Fonseca
Seema Biswas	...	Bharti
Bo Derek	...	Herself
Anna Singh	...	Herself
Hemant Trivedi	...	Himself
Malani Ramani	...	Herself
Manish Malhotra	...	Himself
Rohit Bal	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

India

Language:

English | Hindi | Marathi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

India:A

Filming Locations:

Burj-al-Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company:

Quest Films

Trivia:

'Pooja Bhatt' was the joint partner who was suppose to be producing the film with Ayesha Shroff, but she opted out of the project before it took off.

Movie Connections:

References Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)

Soundtrack:

Boom (Dat Guy remix)

So little with so much

Gustad is a lucky director in that he got to do a big film after the mediocre Bombay Boys. For Boom he got the likes of Bachan, Shroff, Zeenat Amaan et al and had the deep pockets to shoot at Burj Al Arab and pretty much wherever he wanted in India and Dubai. He also had the names of Bo Derek and Padma Lakshmi (Salman Rushdie's model girlfriend) to play up in the marketing campaign... and what did he do with all this! He sank it all.

He has three cuties in the cast who are raring to bare it all, and did quite often; he got tremendous performances from the lower league actors, Gulshan Grover and specially Javed Jaffrey; there's the ever sellable cocktail of sex, drugs and money; and despite everything there ARE quite a few laughs in the film. So what went wrong?

The story. Or rather the lack of it. It seems Gustad was shooting on random notes rather than a script. The result is a series of shots - some beautiful, sexy and very funny, others irrelevant or incomprehensible, or both - put together in a jumpy fashion, and served up with a lot of glitter to make it look like a feature film. Sound levels are particularly bad, and some of the dialogue is lost either in strange accents the actors are putting on, or in the sound quality. Seems like the flick was only intended to be watched, not heard.

I watched the movie against many an advice, but I'd like to recommend it to all those who are interested in movies. Just to guage how so much can be squandered to produce so little, if for no other reason.