Babumoshai Bandookbaaz: Violent without purpose

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Bidita Bag, Jatin Goswami, Shraddha Das, Divya Dutta

Rated: 2/10

I kill, you kill, we all kill — kill, kill, kill. That’s the movie in summary. And helming this killer film from the badlands of cow belt is Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

It’s an impossible situation really for Nawaz, the contract killer who lives on the edge, taking contracts, humping prostitutes and enjoying his drunken stupors and fake Ray Ban collection in his ramshackle bricks-only ruin of a house in the middle of nowhere. The impossible task is to make sense of all the senseless blood and gore that he orchestrates.

It’s a usual but boring violent caper from the underbelly of Bihar where unscrupulous debauchery of power and lust are the norm to kick up a film from. So you have a power hungry,beedi smoking,sindoor wearingjiji (Divya Dutta is good in the role) as one power centre, battling with the totally debauched (but wife-oriented) Dubey on the other end, using Nawaz as the killer link between themselves.

Throw in a duel between two contract killers, a buxom woman playing up the rough romance, lots of outrageous sexual mores, rustic talk and the usual, amoral and unkempt characters sleeping around and killing around and you have a film — a soulless, un-entertaining, thoughtless, needless kind of film you may not want to go to.