Language: Hindi
Duration: 102 minutes
Director: Ranjan Chandel
Cast: Aditya Rawal, Shalini Pandey, Vijay Varma, Jatin Sarna, Vijay Kumar, Chandan Anand
Editor: Nitesh Bhatia, Parikshhit Jha
Cinematographer: Piyush Puty
Introduction:
'Bamfaad’ - the word is a North Indian slang for an explosion.
'Bamfaad' - the movie is the debut film of Aditya Rawal, veteran actor Paresh Rawal's son and debut Hindi film of Shalini Pandey, the petite actress of 'Arjun Reddy' (2019)', the recent Telugu blockbuster.
Ever since the announcement of 'Bamfaad' being Anurag Kashyap's upcoming directorial release and given it's name, the movie was expected to be as explosive and unique in treatment like 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (2012), the last mega crime thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap.
However, 'Bamfaad' comes across as a well planned but hastily wrapped up project, perhaps because of the ongoing lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it's expected repercussions.
Even the director in the credits is Ranjan Chandel, a long time assistant director of Anurag Kashyap and not Anurag Kashyap himself, though the credits state that the movie is presented by him!
Plot:
Nasir Jamal aka Naate (Aditya Rawal) is a UP ishtyle intense and daring but misguided youth in Allahabad, who is always loitering with his friends and often involved in random mischief around his college and other surroundings, but always gets saved by the clout and money of his politically connected father (Vijay Kumar), an experienced and stoic personality with Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.
Instead of pursuing any career, Naate looks forward to meet and join Jigar Fareedi (Vijay Varma), the local gangster. But, by some strange stroke of fate, he bumps and falls in love with Neelam (Shalini Pandey), a cute looking nice girl, housed and frequently visited by Jigar!
Not the one to leave his lady love in lurch or to get scared by Jigar, Naate enters into an open tiff with Jigar.
Jigar being a seasoned game player and power figure, in aid with Zahid (Jatin Sarna), one of Naate's groupmates, creates situations which result into Naate killing a person and exploding an electrical transformer, pulling around half of the city in darkness!
Post committing the aforementioned unintended crimes, Naate escapes to Lucknow with Neelam. But his lady love is caught there by the local police and sent back, which brings Naate back to Allahabad, in spite of the the looming threat to his life therein.
In order to safeguard the upcoming elections, an imprisoned political big wig seeks immediate arrest or encounter of Naate.
SP Nagar (Chandan Anand), an honest officer sees this as an opportunity to pressurize Naate's father to turn witness against the aforementioned political figure, in lieu of saving his son's life.
Naate's father agrees to do the SP's bid, but he is shot dead by Jigar's men, right in front of Naate, causing Naate to visit Jigar's den, wherein he shoots and wounds a couple of persons, including Jigar and runs off with Neelam.
They manage to catch a moving train. But Naate boards down the train to finish off his pending duties and asks Neelam to travel till the last station and not board off in between, may what happen. He promises to find her once he is done with his duties!
Later he is shown burying his father and surrendering to the police.
Analysis:
Upon watching the movie, specially it's senseless ending, it becomes quite evident that the majority of the film was already shot, along with a couple of songs and the makers compiled it all to release the film on a web channel.
The film is not bad, but due to the aforesaid limitations, neither it effectively explores the rustic political scenario of UP, nor the live-together-or-die love angle of the lead pair cause and tug to the heartstrings.
The background sound is loud and clear, but the dialogues at times are inaudible and unclear.
In fact, I had to rewind and see a particular scene thrice to understand a word, which sounded like 'murder', but in actuality was 'bhasad', a North Indian slang for ruckus and confusion born out of anger and frustration between parties involved!
On the brighter side, Aditya Rawal has come across as a promising hero with good diction, body language and acting skills.
Post 'Gully Boy' (2019) and 'She', (2020) much more is expected of Vijay Varma. Both he and Jatin Sarna are quite under utilized in the movie.
Vijay Kumar has well enacted the endearing Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, an almost lost culture both in life and on screen.
Shalini Pandey and other actors have limited timeframe in the movie and all have done justice to their respective roles.
Conclusion:
In spite of all the aforementioned limitations, the movie is definitely a one time watch, for good casting, direction, acting, dialect and art direction.
1 comment:
Love your write ups Prity... Always look forward to them
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