Honey Singh shows up on the soundtrack bragging about knowing Akshay Kumar, which he then proves by appearing onscreen with him. Sonakshi Sinha turns up briefly to just exist, which is fine. Prabhudeva shows up for a very brief cameo that serves mainly to make the audience wish they were watching a whole movie of him dancing. The movie's other assets are minimal and fleeting. His being sidelined for lengthy flashbacks featuring Surya as a teenager stops the movie dead in its tracks, and after too many flashbacks, the movie cannot fully recover. Which he does better than just about anyone in the world. The movie makes the fatal mistake of believing that the character of Surya/Boss, being as he is little more than a string of film clichés as old as Bollywood itself, is compelling, when in fact he's barely a character at all, he's an excuse for Akshay Kumar to do martial arts, smile, and make bad jokes. And all of this convoluted plot unfolds, at great length, before Akshay Kumar even appears on the screen, which is itself another few minutes before the opening titles.ĭespite the lively introduction of the first person in the movie to have any charisma at all, the pace then regresses to its lethargic mean, and we're left with a movie that can't make up its mind whether its hero is a larger-than-life masala hero or an overgrown kid with daddy issues, and then forgets to put its star on screen for startlingly long stretches. Ayushman throws Shiv in jail for defending his girl from harassment.

Instead, 'Boss' devotes an extraordinary amount of screen time to setting up a story about how the 'big boss' ( Danny Denzongpa), a sort of freelance righter of wrongs, comes to adopt a homeless young man named Surya, who is the estranged son of a schoolteacher ( Mithun Chakraborty) whose other son, Shiv ( Shiv Pandit), falls afoul of a government minister and his two sons, one of whom is engaged to the girl ( Aditi Rao Hydari) Shiv is in love with, the other of whom is the wildly corrupt cop Ayushman Thakur ( Ronit Roy).

The thing about assembly-line star vehicles is that if you have a sufficiently watchable star (which 'Boss' more than does), all that remains then is to keep the pace brisk, the fan service abundant, and the lulls minimal.

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