Baazaar Review: A Baazaar you have to definitely visit!!

This week is the release of a low-key movie 'Baazaar' starring Saif Ali Khan, late actor Vinod Mehra's son Rohan Mehra, Radhika Apte and Chitrangda Singh in the lead roles and is directed by debutant director Gauravv K Chawla.

Saif Ali Khan is back and how! He makes a fabulous act as a shrewd business Shakun Kothari and delivers a fabulous performance. Rohan Mehra, who makes his debut is literally outstanding and makes a debut which makes you want to see more of him. He does make his late father Vinod Mehra proud. Radhika Apte as Priya is interesting and pivotal. Chitrangda Singh has a lot of heavy lifting to do in the movie as Mandira and makes a just about effort to portray it.

Debutant director keeps the direction absolutely sleek and fabulous. An interesting plot keeps the viewer invested and the first half of the movie is out and out terrific. The grip of the movie does slip in the second half but the engaging and convincing acts make up for the lost grounds. The dialogues are fabulous and the music is on point. The movie can more or less be summarized a 'Understanding Stock Market for dummies' and does a good job at explaining this to people.

The movie is an interesting watch which will perhaps get overshadowed by the riot 'Badhaai Ho', and a slippy second half but certainly deserves attention and love from all quarters. I am going with a 3.5 stars for this Saif-Rohan starrer. It's a bazaar one should surely visit. The lifetime of the movie is expected to be about 15-20 crores (certainly deserves more).

P.S. The movie released without an interval in Dublin, yet kept me as viewer interested and invested for its 140 minute long run time. You should definitely visit this Baazaar.

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