Bade Miyan Chote Miyan Review: Ali Abbas Zafar’s Style Saves Akshay Kumar-Tiger Shroff & Our Mood Too

Director: Ali Abbas Zafar

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff, Alaya F, Manushi Chhillar, Sonakshi Sinha, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Ronit Bose Roy and others

Where: In theatres near you

Rating: 2.5 stars

Writer-director Ali Abbas Zafar brings yet another save-the-nation tale in his trademark style. High octane action, slow-mo and heroic entries, stylised sequences, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan has everything that an Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff film stand for. From start to finish, the film is a bonafide good versus evil drama.

Two court marshalled Indian force officers Captain Freddy (Akshay Kumar) and Captain Rocky (Tiger Shroff) are appointed by Colonel Azad (Ronit Bose Roy) to get an important package back to India safely along with the help of Captain Misha (Manushi Chhillar), Dr Parminder/Pam (Alaya F), an AI researcher, Priya (Sonakshi Sinha), that is robbed by Kabir (Prithviraj Sukumaran). Will they all succeed?

Ali’s film's first half didn’t take much time to get engaged with the core plot. However, the runtime of 2 hours and 43 minutes seemed too long but Ali’s direction skills manage to sail smoothly. With the current flavour of the Hindi film industry, possibly all the big actors have tried to do their bit, a few good ones, but majority of them were a pain, BMCM falls somewhere close to the average.

Ali’s mastery in making fast-paced films helped this one a lot especially with not-so-surprising interval block, convenient screenplay, and a predictable second half. Bade Miyan Chote Miyan highlights the AI technology that is need of the hour, but sadly the major chunk of the film resembles any of the previous films of Tiger and even Shah Rukh Khan’s Main Hoon Naa and Jawan. Ali cleverly infuses a fun banter between Bade and Chote that reminds of SRK-Salman’s sequence from Pathaan.

The men, Akshay, Tiger, Ronit and Prithviraj are good, and the ladies Sonakshi, Manushi and Alaya are watchable. The background score is noticeable and one song in the entire film is the biggest relief.

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is a typical single screen film that might suit Akshay and Tiger fans, and in fact, it is a lot better than those forgetful patriotic films.