Movie Review:Bellbottom
Writers: Asim Arora and Parvez Shaikh
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vaani Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Huma Qureshi, Adil Hussain, Anirudh Dave etc.
Director: Ranjit M Tiwari
Producer: Vashu Bhagnani, Nikhil Advani etc.
Rating: 3/5
The film ‘Bellbottom’ starts like an agenda film. Those who are intimate with Hindi cinema’s eminent directors know how in recent years there have been attempts to ‘inspire’ the stalwarts of Hindi cinema to make films based on an already studied band. In this film too, the audience is repeatedly told that due to the failure of the governments of the 70s and 80s, terrorism started raising its head in the country. For a while it also seems that whether this film is an agenda film made to show the failure of any one Prime Minister in this regard. But, Indira Gandhi’s personality has been such that even the Agenda filmmakers are not able to stand before her brilliance. Madhur Bhandarkar has realized this in ‘Indu Sarkar’. Indira Gandhi is the only leader in the world who after winning a country, instead of capturing it, made the independent part a new country. Since then Pakistan has been in this ambush that somehow it should be avenged by ‘liberating’ any part of India. Akshay Kumar’s film ‘Bellbottom’ tells the story of one such attempt. Akshay Kumar has been in need of a solo superhit film for a long time and director Ranjit A Tiwari has done this work in this film. The film initially moves at a slow pace. But, once the story of the film comes to the real issue, then it remains in motion till the end. Yes, this film eats a little jerk in the climax but overall the film does not bore.
Before understanding the story of the film ‘Bellbottom’, it is also necessary to understand the days when the Prime Minister of the country was Indira Gandhi. It was Indira Gandhi who divided the Intelligence Bureau (IB) into two parts and gave the responsibility of domestic affairs to the IB and converted the second part into the Raw Vehicle Research and Analysis Wing. In the film ‘Belbottom’ a man constantly appears with Indira Gandhi whom the boss of RAW Agent Bellbottom introduces as the founder of A RAW. RN Kao, the founder of RAW, was Indira Gandhi’s security advisor in 1984. The film shows how Indira Gandhi bet on a passionate RAW agent. How did you listen to this agent despite the opposition of all the officers and ministers? And, how the country for the first time turned down Pakistan’s demand to hold talks with terrorists. In the midst of this story goes the story of a plane hijacking, which RAW Agent Bellbottom takes the responsibility of freeing the hijackers.
Before understanding the story of the film ‘Bellbottom’, it is also necessary to understand the days when the Prime Minister of the country was Indira Gandhi. It was Indira Gandhi who divided the Intelligence Bureau (IB) into two parts and gave the responsibility of domestic affairs to the IB and converted the second part into the Raw Vehicle Research and Analysis Wing. In the film ‘Belbottom’ a man constantly appears with Indira Gandhi whom the boss of RAW Agent Bellbottom introduces as the founder of A RAW. RN Kao, the founder of RAW, was Indira Gandhi’s security advisor in 1984. The film shows how Indira Gandhi bet on a passionate RAW agent. How did you listen to this agent despite the opposition of all the officers and ministers? And, how the country for the first time turned down Pakistan’s demand to hold talks with terrorists. In the midst of this story goes the story of a plane hijacking, which RAW Agent Bellbottom takes the responsibility of freeing the hijackers.
