The Big Bull

On: Disney + Hotstar
U/A: Drama
Director: Kookie Gulati
Cast: Abhishek A Bachchan, Sohum Shah
Rating: ***

NOT just saying this because of the crappy ‘mahavari’, Akshay Kumar, Padman anti-smoking PSA, missed by no one, that shows up, before this show starts. But in a Pavlovian sort of way, that really does prepare you for a theatrical screening to follow. 

Except, The Big Bull is unintentionally an OTT release. But it is in every way, a ‘Bollywood’ film, in terms of how you’d expect/imagine the life of a top, ’90s stock broker, modelled on the infamous Harshad Mehta, to play out.  Do I mean cardboard/cartoonish Bollywood, like Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara (2013) depicting the life of Dawood Ibrahim — hitting bull’s eye after bull’s eye, with dialogues on a bow and arrow? Nope.