Aditi Rao Hydari and Shiv Pandit are used as mere props. Mithun Chakraborty goes overboard with his preachy Nirupa Roy-esque character and is thus unintentionally funny.

From cracking of bones to the crunching of chanas that the villain munches on, the sound effects add to the intensity of the slow-mo stunt scenes. We particularly liked this elaborate chase sequence which looks like it’s been shot in one-take. He makes gravity-defying stunts look believable. He climbs the walls at a lightning speed like a Spiderman, jumps over rooftops, trucks and makes his way in a crowded place by walking over the heads of his enemies. It’s his dialoguebazi and filmygiri that make you smile, no matter how corny the one-liners. To cut a long story short, Boss solely relies on Akshay’s star power and he carries the film on his shoulders with aplomb. The Boss Baby, a grumpy infant who wears diapers because he’s too busy doing business to make a trip to the bathroom, is fundamentally damaged, we learn. The romantic track between Shiv Pandit and Aditi Rao Hydari is terribly inconsequential. The very vicious ACP Ayushman Thakur (Ronit Roy, brilliant) in particular gets easily outplayed by our Haryanvi hero. It seems the action was probably chalked out before and the 70’s-like melodramatic story was inserted later as filler, which explains why most characters end up being silent spectators, once Akshay makes an entry.

There are truckloads of stunts throughout and whatever falls in between constitutes the plot so don’t expect logic. A remake of 2010 Malayalam film, Pokkiri Raja, Boss is a formulaic action comedy.

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