2.5/5
Meghna Shergill (Radhika Apte), is a PR professional working for maverick superstar Karan Kapoor (Ravi Kishan). Her phone gets snatched by a delivery boy (Siddhanth Kapoor), when they get involved in a traffic accident. She borrows the phone of a helpful stranger Pintu (Akshay Oberoi), to sort things out on the work front and to get her phone back. Meanwhile, an encounter specialist working undercover (Amit Sial) is targeting people under instructions from jailed politician Pandya (Adil Hussain). How their worlds collide and how the mess Meghna is in gets evened out forms the crux of the film...The film is supposedly made on producer Michael E Ward's experiences while living in Mumbai with wife Pia Sukanya, the film's director. Mumbai can be chaotic and bizarre and the director has tried to capture it's bizarreness in this dark comedy which also gives a message that a witness protection program is the need of the hour. Though the message gets lost somewhere amidst the chaos.
In trying to capture the ever-changing nature of Mumbai, the screenplay has been made too complex and convoluted. The director has adopted an anything goes approach, which works initially but fails to hold the film together in the overall scheme of things. It's a glorious mess and after a while you just stop trying to follow the different strands as it becomes too much of an effort.
Some scenes, like the one where Radhika Apte tries to explain lesbianism to Akshay Oberoi's mom and ends up singing a bhajan with her are definitely quirky and worth some laughter. The film is also peppered with some clever dialogue as well. But the disjointed nature of the narrative gets in the way of enjoying the film to the fullest. What keeps the interest up is fine acting by the ensemble cast. Radhika Apte once again proves that you can put her in anything and she'll deliver. Akshay Oberoi, who plays a momma's boy and Siddhanth Kapoor, playing a clueless delivery boy perform well too. Ravi Kishan too is a hoot as an out-of-shape superstar.
All-in-all, this derailed comedy carrying a serious message is worth the ride only if you don't mind meandering journeys going nowhere...
Trailer : Bombairiya
Renuka Vyavahare, January 17, 2019, 12:04 AM IST
2.0/5
Bombairiya Story: Set in Mumbai, the film traces a crazy day in the life of Meghna (Radhika Apte), a Public Relations manager. An unlikely incident makes her run into two strangers (Akshay Oberoi and Siddhant Kapoor). Under mysterious circumstances, the three must stick around for each other. What makes them do this, forms the story.
Bombairiya Review: A crime is waiting to happen and the three must race against time to avert it. Who are the bad guys and what is their nefarious motive? What seems like an interesting premise at the beginning loses steam in no time. Bombairiya, a comedy of errors, feels like a pointless exercise that desperately craves for your attention.
It deliberately withholds information, backstories and character introductions to infuse suspense in the story. However, the chaos and confusion gets way too loud, silly and futile over time for you to be engaged in it. The randomness in the execution leaves a lot unexplained and fails to evoke curiosity or a sense of urgency that the story ideally expects you to.
While the actors do a decent job, lackluster writing does little for you to be invested in their fear, struggle or aspirations. Dark comedy is a tough genre to attempt and Pia Sukanya’s non-linear narrative could have been effective, if it wasn’t for the story’s unconvincing ‘cause’. They all do what they do for a noble reason and that isn’t provocative enough.
To sum it up, this one’s a confused, chaotic mess that lacks humour and a clear thought process of what it hoped to achieve. Complicated is not always clever. Bombairiya tries way too hard to lure you into solving the jigsaw puzzle that it hastily creates. After a point, the series of forced mishaps and coincidences drain your patience and ability to decode the reason behind the madness.
Like Meghna, we all have that one bad day that we deeply despise. You say shit happens and move on. The makers of the film should do the same.
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