Express News Service
The 2020 lockdown made us learn many new things. Aside from cooking, baking, and other artistic endeavours, a lot of us also became stockbroking experts thanks to Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992.
The series made words like bank receipts, dilution of shares, bull and bear commonplace. Now, along comes Kookie Gulati’s The Big Bull.
Of course, there will be comparisons to the series, but in many ways, Scam 1992 ran to ensure The Big Bull flies. Unfortunately, the film and its protagonist Hemant Shah (Abhishek Bachchan) meet the fate of the mythical Icarus.
The film is set in the late 80s and early 90s, and Kookie treats The Big Bull with the cinematic sensibilities of that era. While this tone admittedly works in places, Hemant Shah’s rise is peppered with one too many fiery punch lines.