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Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Music: Salim Merchant
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If you are going to watch Nagesh kukunoor’s latest film ‘Bombay to Bangkok’( B2B) with a great hope, keeping in mind the creative director’s past abilities, you will surely be disappointed. It certainly gives an impression as if the director created the theme of this film in this city of Mumbai decades back, then registered the title at that time and decided its making only last year, when he had some extra funds to spend towards the overseas shoot.
Needless to add that it does not match with the standards of his previous creations like ‘Dor’ and ‘Iqbal’, yet Nagesh kukunoor tries to offer entertainment through his latest slapstick comedy, which is based more on romance between his favourite hero Shreyas Talpade, who plays the lead role of a cook- Shankar, and Lena Christansen, who plays Jasmine, a hard working young girl from Thailand, who works as a volunteer in a medical camp and also earns some extra money, working in a massage parlour.
Both Shankar, a cook from a Mumbai restaurant and Jasmine, the local Thai girl happen to meet by chance in Thailand, fall for each other and later travel to Bangkok in search of the possession that Shankar carries along with him as unaccompanied baggage, while traveling with a team of doctors on their mission for charity service. Shankar is shown as a fraud posing himself as Dr. Bhawadekar, as he wants to fulfill his dream of touring abroad to earn some money to offer better treatment to his ailing mother.
This is where the plot does not look natural, looking at the past offerings of Nagesh Kukunoor. Firstly, there is no need to show this man stealing the Don’s pouch containing huge foreign currency, only to be chased by Don’s goons led by Don’s son called Jamal Khan, who is more fond of Rap music. The only reason being that he wanted to present another pair of Dr. Rati- the visiting medical practitioner and Jamal Khan, the junior Don turned rapper, in a different kind of love story. The director only impresses in the sequences of face to face encounters between Shankar and Jasmine, with the inclusion of an interpreter - Rash( Manmeet Singh) to add that required humour in this otherwise romantic film. Otherwise filled with predictable happenings, he only offers a small twist in the climax.
The biggest disappointment is to find an actor like Naseeruddin Shah playing the part of a local don of Mumbai in that small scene. A similar treatment has been given to Uttara Bavkar, the veteran actress, who too plays a small scene, where she is shown the mother of Shankar.
Shreyas Talpade as hero, performs with total commitment, supported well by the thai actress Lena. Among the supporting cast, it is the junior Don turned rapper Jam.K., played by Vijay Maurya is certainly impressive along with Rash played by Manmeet Singh and Yatin karyekar who plays the head of the doctor’s team. To sum up, the film is just an average slapstick comedy, which can never be compared with previous classics from the same director.
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