The Big Bull (2021) :
Movie Review -
The Big Bull starring Abhishek Bachchan has been awaited since the announcement but since Sony LIV's Scam (2020) became huge hit on digital platform, this one suddenly became hot favourite. However, it also brings down the film because the comparison is guaranteed, no matter how different it is. Let's not compare it with Scam and try and judge it on individual strengths rather than comparative statements. The Big Bull is actually as big as bull size story which ensures one time watch but the conclusion doesn't match the set-up. It has small goat size conclusion which is certainly less than its actual potential.
The Big Bull is a story of Hemant Shah, a middle class family man who dreams to make big money and is ready to whatever for it. His desires finds a way in Stock Market to reach the destination and the rest of story shows his rise and fall. With the runtime of 152 minutes, The Big Bull keeps you hooked for almost 130 minutes. This portion is the soul of the film before it leaves the body in last 20 minutes. Nevertheless, the soul still provides enough entertainment to worth your viewing.
Abhishek Bachchan is fantastic in his role. His accent seemed little problematic, otherwise everything else is top notch. If not exaggerating it, this is Abhishek's best performance since Guru, if I'm not missing anything remarkable. Sohum Shah and Ileana D'Cruz are good in their roles but could have been lot better. Nikita Dutta looks simply gorgeous and it would have been great if she had more scenes. Rest of the cast member are decent to average. The Big Bull is a very tight film despite the intense theme and predictable consequences and the credit goes to gripping screenplay and dashing dialoguebaazi.
What The Big Bull lacks the most is creativity and innovative narrative. The story is not offbeat or out of the world stuff in itself and the scenarios like BSE and Money Scam easily suggest the upcoming events so it should have had something different in the storytelling. But it is missing. Anyways, director Kookie Gulati still roars in this general film with decent directorial methods. He could have excluded romantic scenes, songs and several other useless factors with the help of editor and The Big Bull would have been much better just like it was it was in the first 40-50 minutes. So, final words, it's good when it could have been great.
RATING - 6/10*
