Language: Hindi
Release Year: 2010
Cast: Darsheel Safary, Atul Kulkarni, Rituparna Sengupta, Ziyah Vastani
Director: Priyadarshan
Music Director: M.G. Sreekumar, Tapas Relia, Azaan Sami
Bumm Bumm Bole hindi movie review
The Indian cinegoers have never been kind to films that have been made exclusively for children. Even though there is an active society for children’s films, cinemas like Makdee, made by successful directors like Vishal Bharadwaj almost vanished from the silver screen without making an impact on the audience. Ironically, the film picked up a couple of awards on the International circle.
‘Taare Zameen Par’ had a child as its protagonist and it did very well in the box office. Sadly, it wasn’t really a film for children, but on family welfare and an illness that usually affected children. The film had a child artist, Darsheel Safary, whose superb acting as a child suffering from Dyslexia, stole the hearts of everyone who watched the film. Darsheel has once again created magic, this time for ‘Bumm Bumm Bole.’
Darsheel and his co-star Ziyah Vastani have both carried the film on their shoulders as there wasn’t much support from the rest of the cast.
The film is a remake of Majid Majidi’s Iranian film, ‘children of heaven’ and has been remodeled to suit the Indian mindset. I have not watched ‘children of heaven’ so I did not compare ‘bumm bumm bole’ to it. I watched the latter as an Indian film, set in the context of India and I thought it was a pretty nice film.
The story is set in a terror stricken zone of India, probably Assam, because somewhere in the film a character mentions Bihu which is the main festival of Assam. The film opens with a scene where a child hawking balloons, is paid some money to deliver a tiffin box to someone and then there is a bomb blast.
Pinu, aka Pinaki (Darsheel Safary) is the son of a tea garden laborer Khogiram (Atul Kulkarni) and his wife (Rituparna Sengupta). They are extremely poor and can barely make both ends meet. The children go to a prestigious school as their father wants to give the best education to his children, something that he had been deprived of, as a child. And this school has its natural requirements of students being neatly and properly dressed.
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