Bhindi Baazaar

This will be a good 2hrs trip of" driving a ferrari on a 14 lane expressway, sadly with a lot of speed brakers"!!! Either you take the foot off pedal at evry speed-braker , or just ignore them and enjoy the ride with little discomfort!!! This movie is based on the local goons (paaketmaar), gang wars of small scale , reflecting a good overall picturisation of the local area . Movie is written quite well few ignorable errors. The creamy mouthful bite of your burger will be the character's relevance with chess board and Dialougue delivery!!! The movie has got great actors who we love to watch , amidst piyush mishra and kk menon , prashant narayanan has done a marvelous job . It sure as hell doesnt fill the shoes of Satya and Once upon a time in mumbai but will give you a similar feel. I am still in awe with the chessboard relevance and the last scene where a cricket ball barge in from a window and messes the chessboard and its relevance with the scene !!! Mindblowing!!! May not fascinate evryone, but the ones who liked satya , pulp fiction will love it ! Worth a watch!!

Clichéd plot, 50% of actors are either inept or have overacted, the title merely suggests that the events take place in Bhendi Bazaar, their are aplenty loose ends as well. A veteran like Kay Kay Menon is underutilized, the only reliefs are Pavan Malhotra as 'Mamu' and Piyush Mishra as 'Pandey'.

Ankush Bhatt's 'Bhindi Baazaar' has all the ingredients of an intriguing crime thriller. It's shot with style and there are plenty of twists. The story is interesting but at the same time the writing is flawed. The first hour is repetitive and tends to drag at points. Certain subplots are underdeveloped. The characters played by Pavan Malhotra, Kay Kay Menon and Deepti Naval were among the most interesting and yet they are underused in the story. Darzi's romantic track is portrayed like a typical Bollywood romance with too much plot convenience and a little out of place with the overall feel of the movie.

The style of camera-work and editing is a little too erratic and overdone in the beginning. The score should have been more subtle in these sequences. The rawness of the slum and its detail are well captured. The item number should have been left out.

Pavan Malhotra is brilliant and so is Kay Kay Menon but an actor of his calibre is wasted. Same goes for Jackie Shroff. His character seems to have been added merely for plot convenience. Prashant Narayanan does tend to go over the top at times but otherwise he's fairly good. Vedita Pratap Singh is adequate. Shilpa Shukla is not given much to do but she makes her presence felt. Deepti Naval is superb. Gautam Sharma is passable. Perhaps it's the presence of his more experienced costars that overshadow his performance.

The dark humour is effective. If the whole film was treated as a dark comedy, this may have been a better film overall. Yet, despite its flaws, it's still an enjoyable movie. The twists are manifold and most of them work except for the final one which, again, appears a little too convenient. Once one is gets passed the repetitiveness of the first half hour or so, there aren't many boring moments (with the exception of a few hiccups, such as the romance between Darzi and Simran).

Watched it for KK Menon, just to realise that he has a very small role. Overall, the way of telling the story is nice. The plot has some twists and unexpected moments too. But doesn't have that "dekh kar maza aa gaya" feeling.

Plot looks like very real and Kay Kay, Prashant and other actors did very good job. Must watch movie.