Uday Pilgaonkar (Pandora Box Entertainment)

Why do I think the main lead in this has a serious hangover of SRK? All his expressions, body movements are SRK-Ish. Never mind the performance, this is a horrid tale narrated in 1970s flick style. Now this is very much bearable until the director decides to add fillers like Mouni Roy's romance and also the hilarious dance scene when Sultan of Delhi is announced. There are many more fillers which spoil the entire tempo of storytelling. I loved the background music as I am a big fan of 1979 action flicks directed by Manmohan Desai, Brij, Prakash Mehra and many others that truly have added flavor to the now Hindi Film Industry. For me this web series is a rehash of BRIJ flicks very much like Victoria 203 and Chori Mera Naam. What's missing is original acting and a tight script. What's added is unnecessary scenes that spoil the entire narrative. The scene where the hero finds his dad in the later episodes is horribly wrong. The best part of this web series is episode 1 and the India-Pakistan partition killings is well picturized. Avoidable and if you love 1970 flicks then you can view them instead. Not this.

If there was a negative rating, I would have opted for that as this film doesn't even deserve one star. I watched it as it was positioned as a whodunit film but like most of the times, it turned out to be a damp squib. The actors don't deserve a mention and what is most uncompromising is the manner in which the police department is shamed in this debacle. The object of evidence in the climax is so big that it is good enough for a blind man to sight it effortlessly, but according to the director even the police missed it completely except of course sighted by the film's lead man Mr. Arbaaz Khan. Avoid this film at any cost!

When Baba's film gets released. the audience has the right to watch his walk in his entry. If you are a Dutt fan, this film is not for you. And so it is a NO-NO for me. I don't want to watch my hero crying with folded hands and filled with melodramatic scenes. Bhoomi for me was first about Sanjay Dutt and then the script. This didn't happen and hence has left me disappointed. I found the script very similar to several films in the 80's and 90's. It was more of a nostalgia revisiting rather than having me entertained. I was watching it to see Baba and the film lacked the punch to portray him rightly. Not a good second inning starter for him. Direction is utter rubbish and so are most of the characters swirling around Baba.

Everything is so wrong about this phillum. And I dont think the film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia. Rather I want to believe that this trash of a film has been ghost directed as I still have high regards for the director. I love gangster stories but when a film attempts a comedy on a gangster biopic it gives me the creeps. This one is an re-rehashed biopic attempt and it fails super-miserably. Watch Haseena Maan Jayegee for the nth time rather than this damp-squib!