''The Big Bull'' is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language financial thriller film directed and written by Kookie Gulati, based on stockbroker Harshad Mehta who was involved in financial crimes over a period of 10 years during 1980–1990. The film stars Abhishek Bachchan, Ileana D'Cruz and

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. It entered production in September 2019, and was digitally released on 8 April 2021 on

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. The film was a flop with IMDb rating 5.7, it was criticized for being a remaking of Pratik Gandhi's Scam 1992.

Plot

'The Big Bull’ follows the life and times of Hemant Shah, a smalltime stockbroker, who manipulates the loopholes in the country's archaic banking system to create a massive bull run on the stock exchange. But at a time when the Indian economy was taking its big leap towards liberalisation,a girl named meera rao stopped his leap and got him arrested even though he used the ace of hearts, the prime minister of India. He was still found guilty.

Cast

* Abhishek Bachchan as Hemant Shah (based on Harshad Mehta) * Ileana D'Cruz as Meera Rao (based on

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) *

as Priya Patel Shah (based on Jyoti Mehta) *

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as Hari Vyas * Mahesh Manjrekar as Rana Sawant * Ram Kapoor as Ashok Mirchandani, Hemant's lawyer (based on Ram Jethmalani) *

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as Viren Shah, Hemant's brother, based on Ashwin Mehta * Lekha Prajapati as Tara Shah, Viren's wife * Supriya Pathak as Amiben Shah, Hemant's mother *

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* Saurabh Shukla as Mannu Malpani, Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange * Samir Soni as Sanjeev Kohli * Shishir Sharma as Rajesh Mishra, Meera's Boss * Hitesh Rawal as Kantilal * Kanan Arunachalam as Venkateshwar * Rio Kapadia as NCC MD Singh * Trupti Shankadhar as Ashima * Abhijit Lahiri as Baldev * Anand Goradia as CBI Officer Nikhil * Pankaj Vishnu as CBI officer Dheeraj * Rohit Tiwari as CBI officer Rakesh * Sanjiv Jotangia as Mr. Patel, Priya Patel's Father * Aarjav Trivedi as Priya Patel's Fiancé * Vijay Rajoria as Raman * Akhil Vaid as Vikram Solanki

Production

In 2018, it was reported that Ajay Devgn will produce the film with Abhishek Bachchan playing the lead role. The film is directed by Kookie Gulati and shows the financial crimes and life of Harshad Mehta.

and Ileana D'Cruz were brought in to play supporting roles. The shooting commenced on 16 September 2019. Many shots of the movie has been filmed in

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Release

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was released for streaming worldwide from 8 April 2021 on Hotstar.

Soundtrack

The film's music was composed by Gourov Dasgupta and Mehul Vyas with lyrics written by Kunwar Juneja and Anil Verma. The rap single "Yalgaar" by CarryMinati, with music by Wily Frenzy, served as the theme song. Sandeep Shirodkar composed the background score.

Reception

Saibal Chatterjee of '' NDTV'' rated the movie 1.5 out of 5 stars commenting that “the film's problems are rooted in the screenplay, stilted dialogues and arbitrary character arcs.” Writing for '' Film Companion'', Rahul Desai called the movie a “rushed portrait of a slow-burned legacy” further adding that “Abhishek Bachchan’s version of Harshad Mehta is far more compelling than the story it defines”. Jyoti Kanyal of '' India Today'' gave the movie 2.5 out of 5 stars calling it “an interesting watch, which often oscillates between boredom and excitement.” Ronak Kotecha of '' Times of India'' graded the film with 3 out of 5 stars and asked not to let the 'stock of expectations rise too high'. He opined that Abhishek Bachchan 'delivered a decent performance'. In conclusion of review he wrote, "Overall, ''The Big Bull'' is a decent attempt to tell a dramatic story of one of India’s biggest financial scams, orchestrated by a man, who seemed more like a common man than a con man."

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Big Bull, The Cultural depictions of fraudsters Films set in the 1990s Indian films based on actual events Indian crime drama films Indian biographical films Films not released in theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic Disney+ Hotstar original films