Measured by any yardstick, Boom is the worst film this year..and it is unlikely that this accolade will be surpassed this year. Boom is all gloom and doom and quite honestly, a film of such utter distaste that it shocks in its awfulness rather than the comntent, which in itself is dire. This is a hideously distorted and self indulgent effort maniacal in execution and without any redeeming factors.

The film starts with three supermodels, Anu [Madhu Sapre], Sheila [Padma Lakshmi] and Rina [Katrina Kaif],at a fashion show, where Anu trips on the ramp and ends up in a catfight with another model on the ramp. In the catfight, crores worth of stolen diamonds fall out of this woman’s hair and there is a mad scramble for these diamonds at the show. How anyone knew that they were real diamonds is anyone’s guess. Now Bade Mia (Amitabh Bachchan), the “most wanted man in Dubai”, a mass of white, clearly a caricature of the usually black Mafioso Dons, wants his diamonds back.
So now the models are held responsible for the loss and the gangsters want the models to pay them back or recover the diamonds. The game is on between the models and the gangsters and who will outwit the other. Charlie’s angels take root in the plot and off we go on a bizarre rollercoaster ride which is supposed to be an expose of the underworld and its links with the fashion world.

It could have formed an interesting plot for a caper from 60’s Hollywood but it actually swings the other way. Vulgar and bordering on the obscene, Gustad has no idea where his film is going and decides to make an anarchic black comedy which has its moments but by and large fails horrifically simply because it has no structure, no story as such and and adds up to nothing. Its not a spoof, its not a satire and although it aspires to be a black comedy, it falls flat. The director does manage some humour in the dum maro dum sequence with Zeenie doing a jig for her disinterested Boss. Or “Arthur “ revisited with Bo Derek emerging 20 years later from the sea, this time in a sari. The object of every male fantasy, you can see the wit in the director’s vision by including this in the film. But these instances are too few and far between. He attempts a Tarantinoesque style film but fails miserably, eirther in style or with content. Tarantino has strong scripts that have a directrion in which they are headed, Boom goes only in one direction..down the toilet.

Bachchan probably saw this as something different…an over the top figure, with a touch of the bizarre..except it just doesn’t work. Watching this film made me think of Sean Connery in the Avengers…Zeenat Aman plays the secretary with a certain élan and her dum maro dum scene really should raise a snigger. Jackie Shroff is awful As for the models, the less said the better.
Gustad is out to shock..and he does by producing a complete pile of rubbish, a dreadful experience by any standards. Awful.