‘Bob Biswas’ movie review: Misses the target, but just by a whisker
The Hindu
Despite his earnestness to play a challenging part, two hours is a short time to accept Abhishek Bachchan as Bob Biswas and erase Saswata Chatterjee from memory in this spin-off of ‘Kahaani’
While spending time in the cinematic universe, we often come across characters whom we want to know more intimately. Hollywood has had a long list of spin-offs; the Hawkeye series is the latest. But we keep wondering what made Gabbar so ruthless in Sholay, or how about a film that tells us the motivations of the grandmother of Badhai Ho or Vicky’s mother in Vicky Donor?
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This week, writer-producer Sujoy Ghosh joins hands with director Diya Ghosh, who happens to be his daughter — to dip into his Kahaani universe — and decides to tell us the story of Bob Biswas (Abhishek Bachchan replaces Saswata Chatterjee), the unlikely assassin, who almost bumped off Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) in the original before meeting with an accident. Bob, whose catchphrase was ek minit, spent not more than ten minutes on screen, but such was his kinky charm, that he resided in public memory.