The Big Bull Review: A film to increase Abhishek’s stature as an actor, read where he missed and where he was twenty one
Movie Review: The Big Bull
‘The Big Bull’ tells the story of the stock market through a fictional character named Hemant Shah.
Director : Kuki Gulati
Producer : Ajay Devgan, Kumar Mangat Pathak etc.
Screenplay : Arjun Dhawan, Kuki Gulati. Dialogue : Ritesh Shah
Artists : Abhishek A. Bachchan, Soham Shah, Nikita Dutta, Mahesh Manjrekar, Saurabh Shukla, Ram Kapoor and Ileana De Cruz, etc.
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Rating: ***
Had Abhishek Bachchan not been under pressure to become a superstar, he would not have known when he would have established himself as a good actor.
When Bachchan was added to the name, everyone saw him as a superstar and not an artist. Those actors are well provided the director knows the limits of their acting. He does a great job in drama films.
Films such as ‘Guru’, ‘Yuva’, ‘Bunty Aur Babli’, ‘Sarkar’, ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Manmargiyaan’ draw a graph of his acting in which he attempts to advance himself as an actor.
Looks like. There are many flop films in between these films, but in his second innings, Abhishek has started to look like a better actor. ‘The Big Bull’ is another hallmark of this.
The film ‘The Big Bull’ is not a spice film. It is a straight-line film, which has been adopted by its director Kuki Gulati in today’s time to tell the story through a journalist. For Kuki, this is the turning point of his career and he made a film with a lot of effort. The film could have been much better if a little more work was done in the screenplay. Also, the casting of the film was also done with a little patience.
The period of the film is the same as that of the web series ‘Scam 1992’. The formula of both stories is the same.
But, Hemant Shah seems more close to life. When his girlfriend’s father tells him on the terrace, ‘But, a broker is a broker, isn’t he?’ So there was no disappointment on his face.
Every disdain for Hemant is a new invention, that jugaad of life through which he has to make goods from the shares of companies.
Hemant Shah initially states that ‘I have invested thoughtfully’. And ‘there is a difference between a tukke and a bet’, then it seems that a common man’s longing to be the owner is said to him.
However, Hemant Shah slowly lets his intention be revealed. His brother comes as a catalyst in his world and his work is not able to move ahead of him in full action response. Kuki Gulati has made a slight dent in the casting of the series.
It may be that she has less and more of the makers of the film here, but Nikita Dutta is a miscast in this film. Mahesh Manjrekar’s character does not look like the labor leader Sawant.
Saurabh Shukla is not the right choice for the chairman of SEBI. The character of Ileana de Cruz has not been exposed as expected in this film.
His inner artist is yet to come out completely. Every time they see ‘Barfi’ there is hope beyond them, but their directors in Hindi cinema are not able to reach there either.
