Story: Viju (Amitabh Bachchan), a former gangster from Mumbai returns to his city after having moved to Paris. The city has been rattled by a series of bomb blasts master minded by gangster Prakash Raaj who is on the hit list of the ACP (Sonu Sood). But Prakash Raaj has his own plans to get rid of the meddlesome cop and hires an assassin for the job. Is Amitabh the high profile assassin or is he the cop's guardian angel?
Movie Review : Don't go by the title of this film. Surely, this must be one of the worst titles of any Amitabh starrer... even Lal Baadshah was a few shades better. Look beyond the misleading pulp fiction title and you will end up savouring a film which amply proves why Bachchan has remained the ultimate showman that the Indian film industry has ever produced.
No, this isn't Bachchan's best and may not compare with his classics -- and we don't need to name them here. Nevertheless, Bbuddah... is a high dose entertainer when the veteran actor never stops amazing you with the range of his histrionics. Despite his age, he grabs eyeballs with his action cuts, his comic cameos, his romantic ditties (with Hema), his libidinous encounters (with Raveena), his emotional bytes, his derring-do, and his over-the top sartorial sense. Like a one-man colossus, he towers over the screen and still manages to give you one of the finest re-mix rap numbers of all his earlier hits (Go Meera Go) and a thrilling shoot-out that has you clapping in the end.
Way to go Mr Bachchan. We always maintained you were the best. Of course, the film has its loose and superfluous moments, but those are easily ignored.
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