Cast: Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin, Prachi Desai, Krushna Abhishek, Archana Puran Singh, Asrani, Neeraj Vora

Direction: Rohit Shetty

Rating: **1/2

Amid a flurry of speculations and apprehensions about its being an eligible entrant for 100 Cr club of cine flicks. Finally Rohit Shetty's Bol Bachchan strikes the celluloid this Friday. The movie featuring Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin and Prachi Desai and reportedly inspired from cult classic Golmaal opened with an occupancy of around 50 % at the multiplexes.

Synopsis:
Bol Bachchan is a story about a humble guy who after loosing all his hope of survival in a metropolitan city, migrates to a small village and has a rendezvous with the the manoeuvre of destiny, which lands him in a situation where he conceal his one lie from his master by draping it in the cloak of other lie, leading to hilarious circumstances.

Story:
Abaas (Abhishek) and Sania (Asin) after loosing their parents patronage struggles very hard to make the both ends meet. Viewing the drowning financial conditions of Abbas one of his well wishers, Shastri [Asrani] advises Abbas to migrate to his native village in Ranakpur, and also ensures him about getting him job at native landlord Prithviraj Raghuvanshi's (Ajay Devgn) place.

As soon as the Abbas arrives at Ranakpur along with his sister Sania, destiny opens its Pandora's box for him, where Abbas accidentally falls prey to an indistinct situation which makes him lie about his identity in front of villagers and especially Prithviraj Raghuvanshi who has a disdain for lie.

This suddenly erupted situation brings an important twist in Abbas's life, who is hired by Raghuvanshi as as a supervisor, but as the frames proceed, Abbas constantly has tryst with the circumstances where he has to drape his prior lie with a new cloak of lie in front of his lie-hater boss.

With story rolling ahead Abbas begets his fictitious identical brother, an impersonating mother (Archana Puran Singh) leading to a volley of humorous situation.



Script:
Post the release of Bol Bachchan, finally the reasons behind Rohit Shetty's obtaining the rights of cult classic Golmaal have become quite conspicuous.

Through out the pre-release period it was constantly said, that Bol Bachchan is inspired from Golmaal but actually it won't be wrong to say that Bol Bachchan is the reincarnation of Amol Palekar's landmark cine flick.

With majority of sequences and components identical to Golmaal (except the characters) the script of the movie seems quite weak and monotonous. With the constant prevalence of high predictability, curiosity never seemed leading from the front. In nut shell script of Bol Bachchan thoroughly lacks the innovation and novelty.

Dialogues and USP:
Prior to release Ajay's witty one liners were considered as the USP of the movie but, going by the facts even Ajay's witty one liner's could not succeed in doing any miracle for already crumbling script. As far as dialogues are concerned then their predictability is so high that at times it takes a shape of monotony even for die hard Rohit Shetty fans.

Screenplay and Direction:
After watching the previous cine flicks like Singham, and Golmaal triology of Shetty- Devgn duo, fans may get disappointed by Bol Bachchan because the slow pace of the story in the first half of the movie looked completely contrary to Shetty's signature style of cinematography.

Camera consistency and cutting edge sequential shifts somehow manage to keep the fan's gaze glued on the screen. As far as direction is concerned, then after delivering a volley of hits and setting up remarkable benchmarks, this time Rohit failed in making people under stand his Bol Bachchan, because in spite of his exceptional dexterity in direction excess dose of drama succeeded in confining the performances of his celluloid sorcerers.

After slow start in the second half movie takes cine fans for roller coaster ride, but that to for a very short span of time ultimately succumbing to dull climax.

In addition to it another reason which completely marred the potential of the movie is protagonists constant struggle to mouth the regional dialect and portraying the regional persona.



Acting:
As compared to the hype created about the movie the performances delivered in the Bol Bachchan, are also full of surprises where fans will may get dis-hearted, because of the absence of performances they expected from the star cast of the movie.

In the movie it's only Ajay who somewhat succeeded in meeting the expectations of the fans, by his quick witted one liners, as a typically Rajasthani rajput.

As Prithviraj Raghuvanshi Ajay once again succeeded in making fans laugh, but the the only thing which impacted his performance a bit is his constant struggle with rajasthani dialect. Abhishek once again tried his level best to please leave fans mesmerised by his acting skills, but completely failed in doing so, from the very first frame, Abhishek constantly struggled to get into the skin of his role but couldn't do it with utmost excellence, leading to the exhibition of a an average performance.

Being a movie knitted around the male protagonists, movie's female leads Asin and Prachi Desai didn't have much to do, but whatever share of performances they had was quite fare as compared to the other supporting cast.

On his debut flick Krishna looked clearly confined in his stand-up comedian persona, with no quality punches to offer on the celluloid. In the item song Big- B seemed at his best with leaving no scope for shortcomings.

Music:
In music department Himesh Reshamia and Ajay-Atul could not offer any thing innovative or soothing, tracks Chalao Na Nain' and the title track filmed on Sr Bachchan and the principal leads are the pick of the lot, but all in all the music and background score of Bol Bachchan fell short of the expectations of cine buffs.



BO Potential:
After so much hype about it Bol Bachchan completely fails in delivering what fans expected from Rohit Shetty. Not negating the the possibilities, Bol Bachchan may pick up on weekend, especially because of the cinematography notions prevailing about Devgn- Shetty duo followed by a steady fall in its BO collection in days ahead. And as far as it's entering in 100 Cr club is concerned then Bol Bachchan is expected to fall short of that too.

Verdict:
To sum up, knitted on the lines of cult classic Golmaal, Bol Bachchan is an average entertainer with an ok quantity of humor and an imposed dose of action. A perfect one time watch to entertain oneself.