Besharam Shameless Romeo

KATHMANDU, Oct 5: Besharam is a story about Babli (Ranbir Kapoor), a motor mechanic, whose actual expertise is in stealing cars. But whatever he makes, he donates it to the orphanage he grew up in – a good thief and a guardian angel. So, it comes as a real shocker to associate this man who dresses up in jazzy outfits, flaunts his chest hair and reaches for his crotch every five minutes to adjust his underwear with such Robin Hood virtues. And from the title it’s obvious that the movie tries to explore his overbearing and unashamed behaviors. Abhinav Kashyap gears up to offer us his course of a masala entertainer which is not as bad as its trailer suggests, but is a customary flick that fails to ignite the curiosity to keep us engaged.



It’s a film that has come in the wrong size and the wrong shape. Even the spontaneity of Ranbir is overexploited and he gets itchy in so many scenes that you just want him to stop trying. We’ve also got other members from the Kapoor family to keep company. And in all silliness they embarrass themselves handling one lame joke to the other. It makes you think: Were the Kapoors so desperate to work together that they had to agree on a film like Besharam?



Whenever there’s a dearth of gags or punches, the story directly shifts to either a raunchy song or a romantic number where Ranbir and the newcomer Pallavi Sharda get enough time to showoff something new through their dance steps. But no preventive measure stops Besharam from being a shameless extravagance. The film makes a dent with its gross-out humor and is only for those audiences who will watch anything if Ranbir Kapoor’s in it.



Screening at QFX Cinemas

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