Bullett Raja ,Good example of Commercialism killing Creativity

Release date – 29'th November 2013

One Word which describes the film – Disappointing 


Best Dialogue–
1. 'Brahman bhukha to Sudama , samjha to Chanakya aur rootha to Raavan.'

2. ' Hamare yahan badla lene ki parampara hai koi corporate culture nahi jo agle deal me nuksaan adjust kar lein'

Genre – Action

Music – Sajid-Wajid

Producer- Rahul Mittra , Nitin Tej Ahuja ,

Tigmanshu Dhulia

Direction - Tigmanshu Dhulia

Cast - Saif Ali Khan , Sonakshi Sinha ,Jimmy Shergill ,Chunky Pandey ,Ravi Kishan ,Gulshan Grover , Raj Babbar

Vidyut Jamwal

Budget- 50 crores plus P&A

Bullett Raja which was made on almost three times the budget of his earlier films neither impressed the audience nor made money at the box office. The story and screenplay were so bad that it was difficult to believe that it came from a director who has given us master pieces like Shagird (2011) ,Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster (2011) , Paan Singh Tomar (2012) and Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns (2013)

The strength of Dhulia's films have been their intense characters and the well researched scripts. Here the story deals with two jobless graduates who get trapped in a crime saga, and end up becoming right hand.of a  powerful politician. We keep wondering how the two guys with no criminal background are experts at shooting and kept killing people in cold blood.

To justify the big budget the director added a very senseless item number by Mahi Gill. Songs like Tamnache pe disco kept coming in between which made the film more sluggish. 

Sonakshi Sinha's character came out of the blue just to provide a love interest for the main lead. 

There was a character who operates all kinds of business from jail and is shown as the one who controls all the election funds. 

The director must have been dissatisfied by the action as after interval a new character played by Vidyut Jamwal was introduced. 

The film just managed to make 36 crores in India and worldwide collections were 42 crores which were even less than the budget thus turning to be a big loss making proposition for Fox Star.

In a line the director has tried to add so much masala to the film that somewhere the focus on the story was totally lost.

Rank- 27 (out of the 54 films I have seen in 2014 )