Bol Bachchan

Story:

Bol Bachchan is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ajay Devgn and Dhillin Mehta under Ajay Devgn FFilms and Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited respectively, with Fox Star Studios serving as distributor and presenter. Based on a script by writers Yunus Sajwal and Farhad-Sajid and a story by Shetty, it stars Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin, Prachi Desai, Krushna Abhishek, Neeraj Vora and Archana Puran Singh, and is loosely based on the 1979 Hrishikesh Mukherjee classic Gol Maal. It marks Bachchan’s and Devgn’s third collaboration after Zameen and Yuva.

PLOT

Abbas Ali lives in Delhi with his sister Sania. When their ancestral property is taken from them by deception, he loses his job. Their father’s friend, Shastri, convinces them to move to his village, Ranakpur, where he assures Abbas that he will get him a job at his boss Prithviraj Raghuvanshi’s place. Prithviraj is a powerful and kindhearted man who hates liars and punishes them harshly. Abbas and Sania arrive at Ranakpur and meet Shastri’s son Ravi, who runs a drama company with his friends. Abbas learns that there is a temple at the border of Ranakpur and Kherwada, the village where Prithviraj’s cousin and archenemy Vikrant Raghuvanshi holds sway.

The temple, being at the border of the two villages, is a disputed property and has been locked up for years. The long-standing enmity between the cousins even goes on to disrupt the construction of a power plant project in Ranakpur.

The plot begins when a child falls into the well of the temple and Abbas breaks the temple’s lock to save the child. When Prithviraj arrives at the scene, Ravi tells him that Abbas’s name is Abhishek Bachchan to avoid any religious tensions. Prithviraj hires Abhishek Bachchan (Abbas) and is impressed by his work. Some time later, Prithviraj spots Abbas celebrating Eid and wearing the traditional garb of a Muslim. Abbas and the others convince Prithviraj that the one celebrating Eid was actually Abhishek’s twin brother, from another mother, ‘Abbas’, an effeminate man and classical Kathak dancer. Things get worse for Abbas and Ravi when Prithviraj hires Abbas to teach Kathak to his sister Radhika. Abbas tells Radhika the truth, who promises to keep it a secret.

Prithviraj’s sidekick Maakhan begins suspecting Abbas when he watches Gol Maal because the movie has many similarities with the drama Abbas is playing. However, Abbas manages to escape from the suspicion when Prithviraj beats Maakhan for trying to remove Abbas’s mustache. Prithviraj notices that Abbas (the dancer) is in love with Radhika. Prithviraj teams with Abhishek (unknowing that he is also Abbas) to find Abbas when Radhika is missing, who is in fact kidnapped by Vikrant and the duo saves her. Impressed by Abhishek, Prithviraj fixes his marriage with Radhika and Prithviraj’s marriage with Sania, as she resembles his late love, Apeksa, who died in an accident four years ago. But at last, before Abbas can reveal the truth, Prithviraj learns the truth from Maakhan who was spying on him, and presents it in a stage play. After a mad chase, Prithviraj gets stuck on the edge of a mountain and Abbas almost falls while trying to save his life. At last, Abbas explains his situation and promises never to lie again.