Bad habits they say die hard. Habituated that I am to reach late to every movie that I see, Friday nights show for Bunty and Bubbli was no exception either after my motorbike decided it was time to have a rare breakdown !
However my experience in handling ‘break-fixes’ made me fortunate enough to fix the problem with my bike quickly enough to miss just a couple of minutes of the movie. I thus made myself comfortable with a cup of pop-corn and a nice hot mug of cappuchino in the unusually cool environs of R-Adlans Mulund.
The next three and a half hours that lay in front of me were full of complete unadulterated laugh-a-minute entertainment.
Abhishek Bachchan is a small town guy who stays in a rather lazy sounding dusty town called fursatganj. He dreams big and believes that he has it in him to excel at the highest level and wants to move of out the mundane lifestyle that Fursatganj has to offer him. He eventually runs off from his home and moves on to a big town to earn some quick bucks by devising various schemes . On his way he meets a rather ‘bubbli’ Rani Mukherji who dreams to become a miss India. The two get along famously and their brains get cracking.
The movie then meanders along to big towns – Lucknow and Kanpur in the Hindi heartland and ends up in Mumbai. But here’s where the movie is at its hilarious best. You need to particularly watch the scene where these cheeky fellows sell the Taj to a foreigner. The lady minister whom rani impersonates I must admit has a very striking resemblance to a former UP chief-minister.
The laugh inducing entertainment carries on as Bunty and Bubbli keep fooling and robbing people on their way. Though their robberies may be a crime in every sense, speak of an innocence that probably is the touchstone of this movie.
This is where Amitabh Bachchan steps in as the rowdy, trigger-happy cowboy-looking cop who is hell bent on chasing Bunty and Bubbli, calculating their every move to catch them red-handed.
After some wild goose chases and dare-devil plots, the movie draws to an abrupt close after the cliché’d bollywood dose of romance that absolutely no movie can do without !
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The acting is fantastic. Amitabh Bachchan as the rowdy cop does extremely well and so does Abhishek Bachchan who seems to be improving with every movie.
Rani acts well as the daring girl who has the courage to run away and take on the world and as the girl who in the middle of the movie will burst out into loud sobs and remember her mamma !
On the downside – there are just too many songs. Believe me, the songs waste your time. There’s a number featuring Aishwarya Rai and believe me folks I have no idea why Aishwarya agreed to do that song. Being an ardent fan that I am of Aishwarya, I was quite disappointed with her.
The movie is good but could have been made a lot better. Anyways after a long and tough friday in office Bunty and Bubbli is the right tonic to get you into the weekend groove ! Go watch it with your family and smile all the way till Monday ;-) !