One of the million dollar question while watching an intelligent actor in bad movie is, why in the God's name he did this movie ? Here is my theory about why Ranbir Kapoor did Besharam. He has now done a Rajneeti, Wake up Sid, Rockstar and YZHD, which means he is now a established actor in bollywood. For him, the next logical step is to become a bollywood superstar. What better way to do it than do a non-sense pot boiler without a semblance of sense or a script. If Besharam makes money, he becomes the 4th KHAN ,THE superstar and will finally grow out of the tag of the "next" superstar. Unfortunately, even for someone like me who enjoys his Dabang and Rowdy Rathore, Besharam hardly has any redeeming quality about it. It seems like a string of poor jokes and sequences where easy laughs are difficult to come by and any emotional connect is a distant dream with lousy characters, below average music and "mis"direction. It is hard to believe that this is the same director who made Dabangg. Maybe the claim that most khans ghost direct (yes even someone like Salman) is true. Abhinav kashyap tries to be funny, slapstick and crowd entertainer through inane joke (mostly originating or referring to lower parts of the body) and forced situations. Ranbir tries his best to pull it off, but eventually fail to save this lazy piece of work from what we thought was a good director. There was a time when few directors used to believe that foreign locations guarantees their success and script or dialogues can be dispensed with. Besharam suffers from the same problems except that it captures the exotica of our times: "The small town". Anurag kashyap may disown his brother, only for the random songs which comes so often out of nowhere, that their pointlessness seems some kind of secret joke that no one gets in the audience.
Neetu Singh looks like a million buck and plays the cutest corrupt cop ever with a great panache. Rishi Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor deliver as good a performance as a shoddy script and direction permit them to. Special mention is required for the actor who plays titu (Ranbir's sidekick in the movie) he is actually funny. Pallavi sharda is not bad for a first timer, and her character is written with distinguished lethargy.
For Ranbir Kapoor fans this is obviously a dampner. He has dazzled everyone with his choice of movies and roles so far, maybe we were expecting a little too much from him too early. Besharam seems to be for RK what Ram Jaane was for SRK.
Watch Besharam strictly only if you have nothing better to do.
