Forget BBC , please ban BMB!

A frontbencher’s view

Disclaimer - Dear Mr KC Bokadia , before I proceed with your latest offering's izzat-butchering ceremony , let me say a few politically incorrect things. One I have had some amount of respect for your style of movie making. Once upon a time, particularly, the horrible and depressing 1980s of Indian cinema your banner, BMB productions gave us some real memorable entertainers, ‘Pyar Jhukta Nahi’ – which made Mithun a megastar before he chose to self destruct with Ooty-based wholesale cinema manufacturing, ‘Teri Meherbaniyan’ – which made me love Labradors and pinched Jackie Shroff’s sense of self pride and he started acting well cause the dog did better than him in the movie.

Also this under rated classic called “Kudrat ka Kanoon” - if you saw this movie today you might be surprised at the striking similarities between hard hitting dialogues of this movie and current Delhi-based party’s one liners. But most remarkable was “Aaj Ka Arjun” - when the whole industry and critics from Pluto had written off Amitabh, you delivered a smashing Box office hit with him, which also announced you as a director and then you gave Rekha her last solo heroine hit in “Phool Baney Angarey”.

In the 1980s and 1990s BMB was associated with honest, value for money, front bencher cinema. Coincidentally elites loved them too. They might deny now. Not me. There am done with the respect bit.Dear GOI, arthaat , Government of India, kindly do one thing. Please recommend me for bravery award for walking in boldly to watch a movie directed by KC Bokadia, second please forget BBC ban BMB.

I am a victim of this horror-comedy called ‘Dirty Politics’. Based on the now famous or to quote Sant Annu Mallik, inspired from the Bhanwri Devi incident. It is a movie, which relies on charm and oomph of Mallika Sherawat; no one told Sir Bokadia, she has none of the two. She makes it worse with her over the top acting. One day humanity might want to ask Mahesh Bhatt what on earth was he thinking when he unleashed this female and Rahul Roy on us.

I am certain that one of KC Bokadia’s teenage grandson has written the screenplay of this movie and he as an affectionate Dadaji decided to direct this one. That is the IQ of the screenplay. I had once been witness to Naseeruddin Shah’s interview running down ‘Sholay’ and telling all how we cannot rate it as a classic.

Till today I had kept quiet. May be today I can stand up to him and say Sir agar aap aisee filmon main kaam karte ho to phir sholay kya samajh aayegi aapko?

This movie is also time-based justice for Amitabh, for time they say, brings medicine and healing with it. For years, I have not forgiven Amitabh for doing ‘Laal Badshah’ with KCB. After watching actors like Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah, work in this film, Dear Vijay, ‘All is forgiven’. At least ‘Laal Badshah’ had one half hummable song.

But like every super dark cloud, this movie has a silver lining - Om Puri. Oh man, the guy has relished the role of a lech old age politician. He is the only whiff of fresh air in this movie. He lusts after a woman less than half his age and makes no bones about it. It is his honest performance, which makes him stand out in this army of bored elite actors, sleep walking through their roles, like Kher and Shah. The casualness with which Puri delivers one gaali after other, boy oh boy!! It was pure street flavour in Om Puri’s performance.

And if you guys ever thought your life is unfair just see what Bokadia did to Atul Kulkarni in this movie. In at least two scenes,which apparently are taking place at different time slots, he gets up from the chair in rage and says these two words to Jackie - Mukhtyar Singh!! Thank you sir, Bokadia for not using stock shots like they did in Ramanand Sagar’s ‘Ramayan’. Maybe Atul Kulkarni also thought – achcha kursi se bus khade hoke Mukhtar Singh bolne ka aur usska itnaa paisa ok, I am doing this movie.

Ok some of you guys would like to ask me for the story. It is a murder mystery. Sorry, it is a thriller murder mystery. No wait; it is a bone chilling thriller murder mystery. Actually it is a political bone chilling thriller murder mystery. Actually, once I figure out the plot, I will inform you guys. I now badly need a warm cup of tea to get rid of the guilt.