Street fighter Johnny Balraj dreams of becoming a boxing legend and a big shot in 1960s Bombay. He falls in love with Rosie Noronha, a beautiful jazz singer. Johnny loses his innocence in his quest for power, fame, and fortune. "Bombay Velvet' premiered on Friday, May 15.
"Bombay Velvet' stars Ranbir Kapoor as Johnny Balraj, Anushka Sharma as Rosie Noronha, Karan Johar as Kaizad Khambata, Kay Kay Menon as Inspector Kulkarni, Manish Choudhary as Jimmy Mistry, Siddhartha Basu as Romi Patel, Remo Fernandes as a Portuguese man, Satyadeep Misra as Chimman, Vivaan Shah as Tony, Mukesh Chhabra, Raveena Tandon, and Mrinmoy Goldar.
The film was directed by Anurag Kashyap. It was produced by Vikas Bahl and Vikramaditya Motwane. It was written by Vasan Bala, Gyan Prakash, Anurag Kashyap, and S. Thankikachalam. The $13 million budget film features music by Amit Trivedi. It was edited by Prema Saigal and Thelma Schoonmaker. Rajeev Ravi is the cinematographer. It was distributed by FOX Star Studios and produced by Phantom Films. The film is based on Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash. "Bombay Velvet' was rated 6.4/10 by 374 users on IMDb and received a 100% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 4/5 out of 110 user ratings.
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Reviews on IMDb:
"The history of Bombay is heavily dealt with as the plot carves itself out, ending the crime drama with an epilogue that has a punctuation error in it. The touch of politics that drives the crime genre in the film is a cooler depiction of the developments that led to a city now called Mumbai, which became of Bombay and, is where I sit now and write this review. Now, THAT is fun to watch. Few familiar twists and turns drive the screenplay to a highly cribbed climax. Humor, if you can detect it, is wicked and forced," wrote Tejas Nair from Entertainment Capital of India.
"Bombay Velvet' is visually terrific & the Art Design is truly remarkable. There is no doubt that 'Bombay Velvet' is highly ambitious & passionately made, but where this biggie falters is its Script. And no film, no matter how big your budget or how rich in treatment, can rise above a weak Screenplay," wrote Nama Chakravorty.
"Pros - Film is visually stunning. The music and special effects are outstanding. One liners are outstanding and to be applauded," wrote Shubham Joshi.
"Starting few minutes promise to offer something new and interesting but then movie slips down and entangles in its complexity. It tests your patience in climax," wrote Dinesh Prakash.
"First of all, the story is clichéd. We have seen this thing many times where a guy wants to do something big and he gets all the necessary help from a guy who is big. It takes bits and pieces from Hollywood classics like Goodfellas, scarface, Godfather 2, Mean streets etc. Most of these are directed by Martin Scorsese who is an inspiration for Anurag so it can be assumed that he did it on purpose. The good things about this movie are Cinematography, Music by Amit Trivedi and the set design," wrote Royal Prabhat.
