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Home > Bollywood Movie Reviews > Bombay To Bangkok Not Kukunoor's Best APK | January 18, 2008 Rating: **.5 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) User comments Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterjee. Costume Designer: Aparna Shah. Editing: Sanjib Dutta. Lyrics: Mir Ali Husain. Mixing Engineer: Alok De. Music: Salim Sulaiman. Sound Designer: Vipin Bhati. Story, Screenplay, Dialogue & Direction: Nagesh Kukunoor. Producer(s): Elahe Hiptoola-Rahul Puri. Executive Producer: Devika Bahudhanam. Banner: Mukta Searchlight Films-SIC Productions. Release Date: 18th January, 2008.  After Iqbal and Dor, you expect nothing but cinema that pulls at your heartstrings from Nagesh Kukunoor. Prepare to be disappointed in that respect, for Bombay to Bangkok is not up to those standards. It has it's moments and it has Shreyas Talpade, but there's really nothing novel in the story or the narration.Plot Shankar Singh is a chef who steals, in a moment of greed, a bag of money he finds at his restaurant. Then he is on the run, as the bag belongs to Jam K or Jamal Khan, the rap-sprouting son of Khan Seth who threatens to kill him if he doesn't return it. He pretends to be a doctor in a medical camp in Bangkok, where the bag is misplaced. He falls in love with Jasmine, who works at a massage parlor by night and doubles up as a volunteer at the camp during the day. Shankar befriends her, and the adventure to find the lost bag begins, with Jam K on his trail. Story, Screenplay and Direction It's not a bad movie, that one point is crystal clear. It's just that by now you expect better things from Kukunoor. Better, not 'bigger', so the production values in this flick shouldn't bother you. Hey, this is the guy who set trends by making Hyderabad Blues. Remember all the below-the-belt humor in HB? You see sparks of that long-long-ago Kukunoor in B2B. Family audiences beware, even if people are pretty used to it by now. Vijay Maurya as Jam K or Jamal Khan, the frustrated wannabe rapper son of Khan Seth, a Mumbai don is a track that does the movie much good. Then there's Jeneva Talwar, brilliantly convincing as a no-nonsense psychiatrist Rati. Naseeruddin Shah appears for one measly scene, but his presence as the dreaded Khan Seth stays throughout the movie. Nagesh the storyteller is not in full form in B2B, and the warmth that the simplistic narration of his earlier light entertainers spread doesn't happen here. The points that those movies touched on would be subtle, never loud and never out in the open. Here it's all verbal (morality issues, etc.) but somehow feels fake. And that is where the movie falls back, after a promising start. Actually, the Jam K track, and other characters including Rati and Rash keep the movie from becoming boring.  Performances Shreyas is dependable. He's shown his versatility, and has undoubtedly done a good job. Lena is convincing, but Shreyas dominates her as far as performance goes-he is in home ground with Kukunoor. Naseeruddin Shah shines in a cameo, while Vijay Maurya as a true-blue gansta' rapper does a scratch job. Ditto goes for Jeneva Talwar. Dr. Rati as Dr. Tripathi is okay and Manmeet Singh as 'Rash', their tour guide in Bangkok does a good job.Music The title song is just okay; the background works in parts. In all of Kukunoor's movies, the music is pretty good, so this aspect is really disappointing. Last Word Not bad, watchable, just okay..in other words, not Kukunoor's best. It's same-same (as many other movies) but different (from Kukunoor's last two releases in terms of quality). Still, not a bad popcorn-watch. |