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BellBottom looks like the kind of inspirational cinema where the audience will clap and whistle the minute the hero confronts Mrs Indira Gandhi…yes, she is in it too. God and the Pm know, they need a saviour. Who better equipped then Mr Bell Bottom..yes that’s the codename for our hero. Thank God he doesn’t wear drainpipe trousers.
In case we miss the point, there are close-ups of the Superstar’s billowing trousers.
Yup, there is a certain flair about Akshay Kumar. He is lean and lithe, slippery and sinewy. Enemies, better watch it! Even Mrs Gandhi acknowledges his super powers. I must say the actress playing the formidable former prime minister strikes the right notes. I don’t know who she is. I tried to find out but hit a dead-end. Someone from the team told me, ‘Sir she is the band mutthi of our film’. Mrs G has been called a lot of names in her time. Never that.