Don't listen to the negative reviews

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Any doubts over Ranbir Kapoor's stardom must be erased after watching 'Besharam'. If any other actor had done this film, it would have sparked a national outrage; propaganda YouTube channels would have spewed gormless parodies; the entire nation would have been seized with moral panic. But since it is helmed by Ranbir Kapoor, everything is swept under a bulging carpet. Indian audience likes playing chamchas (sycophants) to a given actor at a time. It's Ranbir's time now; it's Ranbir's rule — until they set their sights on firmer flesh. Critics panned 'Besharam', audience rejected it and box-office figures were acutely deficient. So, by all yardsticks it was a failure, yet everything was hushed off. There was not a single protest from the country obsessed with panning films; there was no misgiving from the audience that lusts for blood. Ranbir is a fine actor but comparisons with the legends like Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan are downright snobbish and far-fetched. This flatulence manifests in 'Besharam', for it's not just a shoddy film but frozenly shoddy. Ranbir Kapoor is an epic miscast and he overacts like never before. He just doesn't cut out as a crude, creepy larcenist. Ranveer Singh or Nawazuddin Siddiqui would have been apt for this character. It's hypothetical, of course, for it would have been a regretful move for their careers. Abhinav Kashyap comes from the generation of new-age auteurs. He wants to be objective. He loves flawed characters. The trouble here is that he strives for objectivity without backing it up with any substance, just because objectivity considered a respectable trait in the dogma of modern cinema. In the process, he glorifies ostentation and feet-worships peer-pressure. Tara (Pallavi Sharda) takes a hefty loan to buy a luxury car, just because she has to attend a friend's wedding. We are told that it's a lowbrow practice to attend a wedding in a 'normal' car. It's hard to sympathise with such an insecure, snobbish character when her car gets stolen. Moreover, because of his misguided fixation on flawed relationships, he butchers the chemistry between the two leads, which is one of the biggest flaws of this film. (He handled flawed relationships and dysfunctional families so well in 'Dabangg'.) Pallavi Sharda does not impress. It does not help that her character is a pompous bore. Javed Jaffery does not impress as the antagonist. His character is poorly written like rest of the film. It is unclear whether is his character is a sinister villain or a buffoon. Amitosh Nagpal does not impress. Rishi Kapoor is wasted. His 'mujra' to adopt the kid reeks of ageism. The toilet humour is totally out of context. Kashyap is hopelessly tentative about the fight scenes. Perhaps Ranbir Kapoor intends to do a proper action film before showing his pugilistic side to the audience. As a result, the fight scenes are ineptly undeveloped, with a knotted Ranbir Kapoor springing up and down like an ungainly dancer. It's appropriate that he hasn't done an action film: he would be as misfit in an action film, as Salman Khan would be in an Alfred Hitchcock's film.

To begin with, it is the most disappointing film of Ranbir Kapoor till date, pulling him down to that routine level of big stars who are very much afraid of trying something new and therefore keep playing safe serving the same old wine to their loyal viewers every year.Actually films like BESHARAM become possible or get made only because of the confidence acquired by their makers due to the stupendous success achieved by their previous project. In this case, it's director Abhinav Kashyap and his famous venture DABANGG featuring Salman Khan. Now just try to figure out, that what kind of a lesson, the director would have learned from such a huge success of his first project. Obviously the lesson has to be that here in India; we don't need a story, screenplay or any novel idea to make a film on. But all we need is A Big Star to say yes and the rest gets arranged quite easily. That was the exact idea with which DABANGG was made and that is again the rule followed by Abhinav in his second venture called BESHARAM.Hence please don't look for any solid story idea here or anything exceptional in execution as clearly declared by the title of the film being BESHARAM. The film damn cares about any story progression in its first half and is only interested in giving you some cool (irregular) entertaining sequences entirely written around Ranbir Kapoor alone. The so called plot is revealed just before the intermission and by the time its pretty clear that this is nothing but just another film made to en- cash the star value associated with an actor, by fooling the audience as usual. 3 songs each in both the halves ruin the pace further and the film drops badly post intermission only to recover in its last 30 minutes with a partially enjoyable climax. And that in fact is the only saving grace of the project, wherein both Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh jump in to rescue their Star child from a badly conceived film all together.Putting it simply, this is the first time I found a bit of over- confidence as well as over-acting in Ranbir Kapoor's carefree portrayal of a spoilt brat. He looks like overdoing the act, far away of being natural in many of his scenes and that was indeed a very painful sight for me as a viewer, who rates Ranbir Kapoor as a blessed exceptional actor with a vision. Plus, the film's second half has many weird, illogical scenes which certainly make you wonder that who actually directed this. Like the silly chase sequence, where the goons are firing rocket launchers at people's homes in Chandigarh's local residential lanes & more. However, the moment Rishi-Neetu join in, they start providing those much required enjoyable (yet deliberate) moments in the end and try hard to save the film from sinking with their sincere efforts.The inconsistent writing affecting the film from its first frame itself is accompanied by some feeble performances too led by the wrong casting of Pallavi Sharda in the female lead. The girl is no doubt confident and good looking too but honestly there is no chemistry to be found in the screen pair here. Moreover casting Pallavi in this role clearly proves the point that the makers strongly believe in the theory that when A Star is there in your film, then you don't even need a well known face to feature in it as his heroine. Javed Jaafri looks good as the tough villain and Amitosh Nagpal just fills in the space as Ranbir's friend. But sadly, I didn't get what I was expecting from the real-life couple Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh playing the corrupt police officers together. Their act is very fine at times but also looks forced in and too loud in some scenes mainly due to the unimpressive writing. Yet it was truly great to see Neetu Singh in such an unconventional role like never before and I can only wish the couple was given some better scenes together by the makers. No doubt this was a golden opportunity wasted here unarguably.Apart from the unconvincing performances, BESHARAM also has a routine background score and a very mediocre kind of soundtrack, which one simply forgets while walking out of the theater. Now we all know that Ranbir is a brilliant dancer. But even a fabulous dancer needs good beats and catchy compositions to perform better which are not there in its seven tracks, composed by Lalit Pandit. Further, the cinematography fails to impress majorly since the art director makes a very fake looking Punjabi Mohalla set in the first half and the action director hasn't got anything new to offer in his fights.Returning to the major spotlight of BESHARAM i.e. Ranbir Kapoor, it seems that the once visionary actor of WAKE UP SID, ROCKET SINGH, ROCKSTAR, BARFI & more, has lately made up his mind to make some quick loads of money instead of supporting good films and lost his creative vision in this wicked rat race. With a hope that he soon gets back on track with another gem of a film, I would like to conclude that there was only one dialogue in BESHARAM which could impress me, worthy of taking back home in those 2+ hours as a valuable life teaching lesson. And it was that, "Life gives you back in reverse, what you give to others. So if you do "Bhala" it returns back to you becoming "Laabh" (if studied in reverse in Hindi) and similarly if you do "Daya", it comes back to you as "Yaad", since the person always remembers you for the help given.But other than this one precious line, I found nothing in BESHARAM quite shamefully.

watched BESHARAM ..I am not quite sure that its makers are filthy rich..well even if they are they can't be very rich after this flick..cause its awful...its like they just wake up one day & said ""hey guys lets make a movie today..& while we'r at it lets make it with the best cast in the industry(today)..& songs put sh!tload of songs in it..story?? f**k story..just make a movie"" this kinda attitude of makers slaps you in the face while watching it...I'm not fan of retard n double meaning Comedy/ies but this is way worse than those(least they do their best)..BUT they these people wasted their extremely talented cast with their sh!t plot n script(still cast did what they could_I gave it 2* just cause of them) AND more importantly 2+hours of your life...it has nothing, nothing to watch I say _DO NOT WATCH_ no matter what happens

First of all, it's very clear that Besharam aims to be no masterpiece. Instead, it is an intentionally loud film that seldom takes itself seriously. The day this movie came out, in fact, when the trailer itself came out, many Ranbir Kapoor fans were disappointed with what kind of a film Ranbir had chosen. Hence the current below-4 rating on IMDb. And I can't blame them, either. Right from Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ranbir has been giving back- to-back great films, with his performance standing out the most.Ranbir is one of my favorite Bollywood actors as well, and I can't help but compare him to another one of my favorite actors, Aamir Khan, for his choices in film. Before I watched this film, I thought that this was going to be Ranbir's 'Mela' in that regard. I'm also no fan of Abhinav Kashyap's work either; I think Dabangg is one of the most atrociously horrible films to ever come out of India. So, I really thought that Besharam would also be a serious contender for 'Worst Bollywood Film of All Time'. Of course, it's far from THAT, but to be honest...Given the current hype that was created for this film, and the immediate backlash afterwards, I can honestly say that it would be a crime to call this one of Ranbir's best movies right now. But it wouldn't be in another, say, 7-10 years.The plot is simple enough: the adventures of a 'besharam' car thief. Yes, it's another character-centric film, but it actually has many other characters with their distinct personalities. There's Babli, the shameless protagonist; T2, Babli's spontaneous best friend and partner in crime; Tara, Babli's ladylove; and of course Chulbul and Bulbul Chautala, the bickering cop couple.The acting is non-surprisingly loud and over-the-top, but still has depth, especially in Ranbir Kapoor's case. The newcomer Pallavi Sharda is decent in the acting department, and mostly relies on her taut dialogue delivery. Neetu Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor are FANTASTIC. Javed Jaffery, as the villain, doesn't quite fit, however.The dialogues and some of the scenes are really childish, some even resorting to toilet humor. Nevertheless, the film evokes some laughter. The songs are actually very good and memorable, and the lyrics of 'Love Ki Ghanti' are quite innovative.However the film is not very well written, and is unrealistic. Every 20 minutes or so there is a song. The Aa Re Aa Re song is especially annoying. The film is sloppy, sometimes even feels cheap, and the action sequences are completely over-the-top.However it's this nature of the film which makes it unique, more unique than any other masala film. Some of the jokes even aim at political satire, and the film has its takes on corruption and violence. All this will surely stay with people after a long time. It is truly BESHARAM.If I had to rate this film right now, it would be an obvious 4 out of 10. But according to me, this entertaining film, though not very clever or serious, is yet to find its audience. Only time will tell...