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Bachchan Pandey
Independent Mar 18, 2022
When a struggling filmmaker and actor set out to make a biography on one of the most dreaded gangsters, they have little idea about just how crazy and dangerous it's going to be.
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Country of Origin: India
Language: Hindi
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- Myra Devekar (Kriti Sanon), is a budding director Under the guidance of film director (Nasir Abdullah). Myra is innovative and saves money on shoots by finding simple solutions, but the director feels she undermines his authority. Her father (Surendra Singh) is a spot boy on the sets and is treated very badly by the other members of the crew. But her dad encourages her to earn her respect in life. Myra wants to direct a biopic on social activist Lodha Patkar. But, She is given a task by a producer Vermaji (Ashwin Mushran) to come up with a gripping and violent gangster story to produce a film. To satisfy the producer's commercial outlook and her hunger for making a realistic flick, she decides to study the life of a real-life gangster for the script. Her extensive research leads to menacing one-eyed Bachchhan Paandey (Akshay Kumar) of Baagwa, a ruthless gangster surrounded by quirky yet scary henchmen.Myra travels to Baagwa where she meets her friend Vishu (Arshad Warsi) and tells him about her film idea on Bachchhan Paandey. Vishu gets furious and asks her to leave but is later persuaded to help her with the film. Myra offers him the role of a 2nd hero, which was the life long dream of even Vishu's father. without any headway, Myra gets lucky when Bachchhan and his entourage run into her at a local mechanic shop. Bachchhan makes it clear that he is not into idle talk and hates anyone who makes fun of him, as his business runs on fear. Both Vishu and Myra start to target Bachchhan Paandey's henchmen in an effort to get closer to him.Kaandi (Saharsh Kumar Shukla) is a lightweight, with a heavy hand, and watches cheap porn. Bufferiya Chacha (Sanjay Mishra), is a trustworthy man for Bachchhan and runs the Kala theatre. He stutters. Pendulum (Abhimanyu Singh) drinks a lot & is in love with Pinky (Aroosa Khan). Pinky is the sister of 7 cops. Pinky is engaged to Police SP Suryakant Mishra (Santosh Shukla). Suryakant and Pinky's wedding took place, but Bachchhan intervened and Pinky got the courage to defy her family and elope with Pendulum.Bufferiya says that he exposed the previous journo who came to ask for Bachchhan, so Vishnu and Myra rule him out. They supply German porn to Kaandi, but accidentally the CD makes it way to the house, where the ladies watch it with kids. Kaandi is slapped by every lady in the house. There is an attempt on Bachchhan's life and Bufferiya believes that it was an inside job. Meanwhile Suryakant has vowed to mass encounter Bachchhan and his gang.Meanwhile Pendulum finds Vishnu trailing him and asks Virgin to Investigate Vishnu and Myra. Myra seduces Virgin by saying that he has a hero personality. He falls for it. Virgin (Prateik Babbar), tells them about Paandey's former girlfriend Sophie (Jacqueline Fernandez), who was killed by the former. Vishnu and Myra plant a microphone on Virgin to eavesdrop on his conversations with Paandey. Meanwhile Paandey has figured out that Rana Lohia planned the attack on him. Rana meets his girlfriend, without any security, in a colony and Paandey lies in wait with his men.Later, Virgin betrays Paandey (when Virgin calls Rana and tells him how Paandey is lying in wait for him) but is caught and killed by him. Vishu and Myra listen to the murder through the microphone, but are caught by Paandey's gang when they discover the mike planted by Myra in Virgin's phone. Paandey sets out to kill Vishnu and Myra, but agrees to spare them when he discovers that Myra is directing a gangster movie, under the condition that he plays the protagonist of the film. Vishnu was angry when he realizes that Myra was giving him only 2 scenes in her film and hence seeds the idea with Bachchhan that he should play the hero in his own biopic. This is only to make things more difficult for Myra.Myra initially doesn't accept & tries to run away from the town, but Kaandi and Pendulum tracks her to the bus station and Myra is forced to listen to Paandey's backstory. Paandey lives with his mother (Seema Biswas). She hasn't spoken to Paandey for 10 yrs for his criminal life. Paandey allows Myra to make films of his daily life, his tortures, murders and extortion. He has killed 70 people to date.In a flashback, Paandey works for a politician Lalji Bhagat (Mohan Agashe). Sophie is a foreigner who has come to visit the village fair. Paandey falls in love with her and spends time with her. Sophie's parents had met in Pushkar and she asks Paandey to help her do all the things that her parents did when they fell in love. After a fallout (Paandey asks Lalji to release him from bondage, so he can settle down and have a family life), Lalji gets Paandey's former girlfriend Sophie killed (and Paandey's eye is stabbed in the process). In retaliation, Paandey murders the politician in the hospital.Bachchhan Paandey and his goons don't know how to do acting, so they learn through Bhavesh Bhoplo (Pankaj Tripathi), an acting coach. Bhavesh doesn't know that Paandey and his men are dreaded goons. So, Bhavesh hits, threatens, and humiliates Paandey and his henchmen, much to their chagrin. Nevertheless, Myra dissuades them from harming Bhavesh for the sake of the movie.The film is eventually completed and released in the theaters. Bachchhan Paandey and goons initially get excited and promote the film named "BP," thinking it to be the gritty gangster drama that it was marketed as. To their horror, the film turns out to be a comedy that portrays them negatively (BP stands for Bhola Paandey). On the other hand, Myra's film is proved to be a hit and gets praise from her media and her director who used to often criticize her a lot. Myra's dad gets the respect he always craved. Bachchhan Paandey and goons decide to kill her for making his fear in people vanish.Paandey and his goons pour petrol on Myra and are about to set her alight, when Paandey narrates that when another big don of their area died, nobody came to his funeral. He had fear, but no respect in people. Virgin's wife walks up to Paandey and thanks him for the film that made her daughter laugh for the first time after her father's death. The little girl who was scared of Paandey, now hugs him. His movie is running house full in all theaters. His mom speaks to him for the first time in 10 yrs. She credits Myra for showing everyone a side of Paandey that no one had seen before. Paandey spares Myra.Bachchhan Paandey, later on, becomes a star, and Kaandi gives up his habit of watching porn films. Bhavesh Bhoplo becomes the best acting teacher and Bachchhan Paandey gets recognized as a best comedy actor with Myra as best director.
Storyline
- Myra Devekar works as an assistant director to top film maker who fires her when he finds that she has better ideas of film making,she then decides to start her own film an comes across story of UP based gangster Bachchan Pandey.When Maya's producer finds about her plans he asks her to drop the idea there itself as Bachchan Pandey is a very dangerous gangster and does not have mercy on anyone.Myra believes in her idea and travels to his village for research accompanying her is her friend and struggling actor Vishu.Myra sees that the village is feared by Bachchan Pandey who is always accompanied by his huge gang and lives life of king size she tries to get close to his aides for more details but finds that one of his close aide his betraying him.When Bachchan Pandey finds about the betrayal he does not spare him and also finds that someone is spying on him through his aide.Bachchan Pandey traces Myra and Vishu as the spy's where both get beaten by his gang but he spares them when he finds Myra is there to make a biopic on him and agrees to be part of it. — alex.mjacko@gmail.com