{"id":3554,"date":"2016-03-08T04:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T23:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2016-03-08T04:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T23:10:44","slug":"baazaar-review-saif-ali-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"Baazaar Review: This Saif Ali Khan Starrer is So Bad That It\u2019s Not Even Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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n the first few minutes of Gauravv K Chawla\u2019s <\/span>Baazaar<\/span><\/i>, comes a moment where a <\/span>sister<\/span><\/a> encourages her <\/span>brother<\/span><\/a> to leave their small town and go to Mumbai to follow his dreams. They share this quiet moment of understanding, just after he\u2019s had an altercation with the father. An incisive film would\u2019ve mined this situation to explore the fraught interpersonal relationships in a small <\/span>family<\/span><\/a>. And a sentimentally manipulative film would\u2019ve exploited the melodrama of this moment, making the audience invest in these characters. <\/span>Baazaar<\/span><\/i> attempts neither. <\/span>\n\nInstead, the scene exists only to endorse Paytm. The <\/span>sister<\/span><\/a> says that moving to <\/span>Mumbai<\/span><\/a> is very easy. She opens the Paytm app and books a flight for him in under a minute \u2013 roughly the amount of time the makers spent thinking about the plot before proceeding to make a 2.5-hour- long film. <\/span>\n\nBaazaar<\/span><\/i> revolves around Rizwan Ahmed (a robotic Rohan Mehra), a small-time stock broker from <\/span>Allahabad<\/span><\/a>, who fanboys over a corrupt Mumbai businessman Shakun Kothari (a sleepwalking Saif Ali Khan), clearly proving that <\/span>Indian men<\/span><\/a> need better role models. Rizwan\u2019s lifelong dream is to be as rich and successful Kothari and so he sets out for Mumbai. In the process, he gets caught up in a game of lies and betrayal. <\/span>\n\nIn its opening minutes, the film gets down to business: It proves Shakun\u2019s ruthlessness and Rizwan\u2019s genius. At a Jain gathering, Shakun utters \u201cMicchami Dukkadam\u201d (I seek your forgiveness) before attempting a hostile company takeover. The process involves scheming, lying, being homophobic, and outing his closeted <\/span>cousin<\/span><\/a> to his family to have the last word. You know, just the usual recipes for melodrama and business. <\/span>\n\n

Baazaar doesn\u2019t have characters \u2013 just caricatures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nOn the other hand, Rizwan impresses the boss of Capital Broking, <\/span>Mumbai\u2019s<\/span><\/a> best stock broking company, by standing outside the premises for one full morning. It\u2019s also accompanied by him fulfilling a challenge to sell a cup of coffee to a room by drinking it himself and then paying for it. Any company would be idiotic if they didn\u2019t end up hiring Rizwan after this incredible display of talent, so you can guess what happened in <\/span>Bazaar.<\/span><\/i> (I hope the script for <\/span>Employee of the Year<\/span><\/i> is underway.) <\/span>\n\nOn paper, <\/span>Baazaar<\/span><\/i> is meant to be a gritty look at the <\/span>stock market<\/span><\/a>, a serious exploration of the far-reaching effects of money and power in Mumbai, and the pressure on brokers to resort to unethical means. Yet you learn as much about the stock market, Mumbai, or brokers as you did before you entered the theatre. <\/span>Baazaar\u2019s<\/span><\/i> daftness made me miss a badly made film because it doesn\u2019t even make that effort.<\/span>\n\nFor instance, <\/span>Baazaar\u2019s <\/span><\/i>punchline is about Shakun proclaiming that he\u2019s a 100m sprinter, not a <\/span>marathon runner<\/span><\/a> and Rizwan claims the opposite. Both the leads name the world\u2019s best sprinter and marathon runner respectively to illustrate their point but get this \u2013 the film gets their names wrong. It assumes showing two characters make out, attempt foreplay, dance, and get drunk is a legit way of driving every big plot point forward. One of the film\u2019s twists come from a BBM broadcast that a <\/span>school<\/span><\/a> girl forwards to her class, except the last time anyone used a BlackBerry was a good five years ago. <\/span>\n\nBaazaar<\/span><\/i> doesn\u2019t have characters \u2013 just caricatures. Every plot point of the film is an extended open-mic joke that refuses to land. And you can tell a lot about a film where the lead (which is Mehra\u2019s debut role) exists just to prove that Arjun Kapoor isn\u2019t the most one-dimensional actor in Bollywood, where <\/span>Radhika Apte<\/span><\/a> refuses to have more than three expressions, and in which an arrest is explained with \u201cEnglish bolte bolte, Jai shri krishna bolna hi bhul gaye.\u201d <\/span>\n\nI wish I could find something good to say about <\/span>Baazaar. <\/span><\/i>Sadly, it\u2019s so bad that it\u2019s not even good.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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