Jackie Shroff suffer box office Failure but this movie was good but the fails to impress audience but despite of being very low opener film performed moderately at the box office.
Jackie shroff performed well at two role Juhi Chawala was good in his female lead . Kader khan was waisted in this movie but climax was very bad what happened to Ram Ghulam was in a jail.
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kumarsaawan6 March 2019
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jahangirhussain741 October 2012Bandish is a terribly bad film. I wonder why an intelligent filmmaker like Prakash Jha who gave us classics like Damul and Parinati would attempt such a lousy remake of the classic Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities".
Bandish has almost nothing to recommend itself to the audience. It's a simple story of a village bumpkin, Ramgulam (Jackie Shroff) who faces a village trial or "panchayat" (to be more precise) as he owes money to a fellow villager. On the other hand, Ramgulam promises his girlfriend, Kanta (Juhi Chawla) that he will marry her after he pays off his debts. Saying so, he boards a bus to Bombay. After Ramgulam goes to the city, Kanta misses him and longs for him to come back to her. Finally, the "seedhi-saadhi" Kanta decides to go to Bombay to search for her fiancée. Unfortunately, everyone wants to take advantage of the "seedhi-saadhi" girl once she goes to Bombay. This includes, Rangaswami (Paresh Rawal, looking awkward as ever) who lusts for Kanta. In a major turn of twists, a lookalike of Ramgulam, Kishan shows up. He's an awful thief who has no knowledge of his future. His conscience is practically "dead". Kishan spots Kanta and falls in love (or lust) with her. Obviously, Kanta takes Kishan for Ramgulam and that gives her a license to sing a duet or two with him until the truth eventually turns up.
What happens next is too predictable to tell.
Jackie Shroff does nothing new in this film. He is an actor who doesn't have a definite style to his acting. He wears a single expression on his face throughout and looks bored. I don't even blame him for his bland performance. Juhi Chawla balances both her "village belle" type look and the sensuous look perfectly. She had to look hot in two of the songs and she does it pretty well. Kader Khan is wasted. Paresh Rawal is mundane and looks awful with his protruding teeth. But that's a stereotype for Hindi movie villains, I guess. There's nothing much to write about his performance. One hardly notices that Raghuvir Yadav appeared in a cameo in this movie.
Prakash Jha apparently lost his focus when he said he is venturing into commercial cinema with Bandish. His direction was jittery and the way some scenes proceed just show his lack of interest in this movie. Prakash Jha is a capable director, but if he continues to make lower quality of films like Bandish, it might be the time for him to quit. I request him to come up with a much superior product next time. -
nilendu29 November 2001Contains spoilers Prakash Jha - Damul. Same Prakash Jha - Bandish. Only one simili comes to mind. Sunil Gavaskar - batsman. Sunil Gavaskar - Bowler.
Bandish is a bad film. A bad film made worse by a lousy treatment of a so-so story. A worse film made even more unwatchable by mannerism of its main actors - Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla, Kadar Khan and Paresh Rawal. An unwatchable movie that would lead you to the local pharmacist as you feel you have built immunity to your home pile up of anti-headache pills.
The story is based - not so loosely - on Dickens' 'Tale of two cities'. Quite frankly, Dickens novels are exhaustive and real BIG. After all they were written before Larry King was born and people had enough spare time to read. They need cinematic treatment from a guy who is at least not as lazy as Prakash Jha. Prakash Jha keeps a ponytail and doesn't even go to a regular barbar. How come he could be entrusted with a Dickens novel? Those should be left to the likes of David Lean and family!
Ramgulam Singh is a village simpleton who faces the panchayat for Juhi Chawla. Juhi owes some money to some old fellow in the village and Ramghulam comes to the city to earn 25,000 so that he could marry Juhi. God alone knows why Raghubir Yadhav appeared in a 3 minute role as Juhi's friend. Ramghulam takes up some spying work for India. This was totally out of place. The entire episode can be edited out and the movie looks the same. This scene to the movie is same as wearing a long coat on a hot day in Chennai.
However, Ramghulam's look-alike (both Jackie) is a thief, jail breaker and a guy who doesn't generally know what conscience is. When escaping jail he puts back Ramghulam in jail in stead.
Juhi comes to the city to search Ramghulam. Was almost getting raped by 'Rangaswami' (Paresh Rawal whom Juhi refers to as 'Nangaswami') but she escapes and met the conman whom she assumes to be Ramghulam. They quickly sing two passionate songs lest the real Ramghulam comes back in a jiffy.
Finally love triumphs over lust. The conman goes to save Ramghulam by changing place with him the night before death sentence. Ramghulam and Kanta go back to the village!
Anand Milind's music is not too stale. But still it's from Anand Milind and that itself gives a lot of reason to be careful about.
Interestingly, Jackie Shroff keeps Anna Singh as dress designer in all his movies. This movie is not an exception. Juhi's dress is designed by Neeta Lulla and you will instantly recognize the same 'long skirt' in one of the songs that Divya Bharti wore in most of her movies. Here the color was red.
Prakash Jha was so good in Damul. He is pathetic as a director (producer) here. Marrying Dipti Naval took a serious toll on his creativity? Before making this movie he was so bombastic saying 'This is my venture into commercial movies'. But this fell just with a low-key thud.
Juhi fans would not - for a nice change - see a Juhi Chawla giggling all the way. But she is still a village belle which is - frankly - quite boring. She looked sensual in at least two songs. Surprisingly, she was not 'stiff' with Jackie as she is with other heroes (except Shahrukh). Even in intimate momemts, she was not uneasy as she was in Goonj, Love Love Love or Deewana Mastana where she exposed.
To end on a positive note, Prakash Jha is a cinematographer by training. He at least did good work on that field. Use of 'tones' demand high praise in this movie. The movie was made in 1995 and that time UK labs hadn't come up with the sophisticated toning technique neither Prakash Jha could afford top-quality films to shoot - but nevertheless he impressed more than a few times with the overall camerawork.