Bangistan - Movie Review

What should one say about bad movies? Well if they are only bad you could just say it was bad. But what if it is fifty layers below a bad movie. One would fall short of words like I have after watching Karan Anshuman's Bangistan. This one surely creates its own niche of bad films. Incidentally Karan was a critic himself earlier. Well watching what other critics would write about his movie would surely break his heart. But the director has to be appreciated for pulling a one line story to a little more than two hours. Commendable.. *slow claps*

The story of the film revolves around two youngsters who are fanatics of their religion in a made up country called Bangistan.

Riteish Deshmukh is the only tolerable and the worth watching element in the movie. He plays a Muslim guy who disguises to be a Hindu. The one star in the ratings goes only to Riteish and that too only for his performance in the second half. But the bigger question still remains as to why he agreed to work in a film like this.

Pulkit Samrat plays the role of a Hindu and portrays to be a Muslim. For most parts of the movie Pulkit's is only screaming at the top of his voice and eventually Riteish himself tells Pulkit that he is a bad actor (this was the only time when the audience laughed).

Jacqueline Fernandes does what she is best at, doing nothing onscreen and dancing in one song. Her character is not even developed and thus is pretty much wasted in the film.

What was supposed to be a satire is nothing but a painful experience to your eyes and brain. There are no tracks that are worth humming. Only Saturday night full tight is a track that would be heard at night clubs.

All in all Bangistan could be given a miss at least at the theatre. Not even if you are a diehard fan of Riteish Deshmukh. This one could be one decision you would regret taking. Well just saying..

Anita Menon