Quite unfit hai Boss!

Boss
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakravorty, Aditi Rao Hyadiri & others
Rated: 4/10

They will all wear white, because Boss is always right.’ Right? Wrong, very wrong actually! For, Akshay may be on a roll here, trying to cash in on his earlier body of work, but he takes the film into all kinds of dark tunnels from where there is no possibility of a sane emergence.

Director Anthony D’Souza has tried hard to bring out a Singham from within a Dabangg and even a Rowdy Rathore from within a Joker, but despite all the silly dialogues, the exaggerated comic relief, the swagger of Akshay himself and somewhat well choreographed fight sequences, there is very little to write home about.

Of course, in all such movies meant for the paisa phenk, front-row rowdy audiences, this one too has no time or place for any kind of punctuations. That’s ok, but one has to grow up from the 80s mould of film-making and package it differently to make some eyeballs steady on to the screen.

Akshay is usually good as over-the-top guy and he has shown his prowess with such bubbleball roles all through his career. In Boss, too, he is master of all he surveys, a one-man army raising dust, throwing away cars with his bare fists and ejecting dialogues with as much ease as he wears his pyjamas all through the film.

So far, so bad — and so not happening! But what next? He has to save a family. He has a daddy hang-up, daddy has a beta-is-goonda hang-up and bhai has avillain ki behen hang-up and the villain has, God knows what hang-up.

Thanks to all these hang-ups, there is a mixture of relationships which intend to make you laugh, cry, get angry and also sentimental over a plethora of issues but end up making you scream at director D’Souza “don’t angry me,” or, maybe, even “behen ki lorry” as he so naughtily calls a truck!

Unfit hai Boss!

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 20 October, 2013