Directed by Kookie Gulati
Abhishek Bachchan as a Harshad Mehta doppelganger delivers a career-defining performance. His Hemant Shah is wildly ambitious, sly, mean, egotistic and callous. He gets his way with influential people with his rustic charm and native intelligence.
I saw all of this in Abhishek’s smirking performance. I also saw a lot of research go into the storytelling. There are alleged facts here about the Harshad scam that shook the nation in the 1980s. They will make you think as well in 2021 about the world around us. The more things change the more they are the same.Yawn.
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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.
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Abhishek Bachchan in ‘The Big Bull’
Despite Abhishek Bachchan’s best efforts to portray the fallen stalwart of the Bombay stock exchange, the film comes across as a drab attempt to glorify its problematic protagonist
The story of Harshad Mehta and his involvement in India’s first major financial fraud has captured the imagination of today’s burgeoning middle-class. His audacious acts of blatant financial skulduggery are as repulsive to some, as they are effective conduits of vicarious thrills to others.
And yet, the new movie on the fraudster by Kookie Gulati, which claims to be “somewhat inspired by true events”, evokes a different set of emotions from its audiences that of bewilderment at its comical discrepancies initially, followed by disappointment.