Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
- Director
- Ali Abbas Zafar
- Studio
- Pooja EntertainmentAAZ Films
- Release Date
- 11 April 2024
- Running Time
- 164 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹350.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹102.16 Cr
Cast
Review
There's an earnestness to *Bade Miyan Chote Miyan* that nearly saves it from itself, but ultimately, it drowns under the weight of its own confused ambitions. Akshay Kumar and Disha Patani share a chemistry that crackles in moments—there's a genuine warmth when Rocky and Misha banter, and you feel the director *wants* this to matter. But the film asks us to care about a woman whose brain has been weaponized, a rogue scientist with vaguely defined motivations, and international espionage stakes, all while bouncing between London and Shanghai like a travel brochure. The action sequences are competent but forgettable; they lack the distinctive style or emotional weight that would make you lean forward in your seat. What could have been a taut thriller about soldiers grappling with loyalty and betrayal instead becomes a scattered mess that never commits to its own premise.
The real tragedy here is watching talented performers work against a script that doesn't trust its audience. Disha Patani deserves better than a role that reduces her to a MacGuffin—a literal vessel for secrets rather than a fully realized character. Even Kumar, despite his charisma, can't anchor a story this untethered. Director Ali Abbas Zafar seems caught between wanting to make a slick spy-thriller and a character-driven drama, and the compromise satisfies neither. The film's emotional core—whatever connection might have existed between these soldiers—gets buried under exposition, CGI set pieces,
Storyline
So basically, this crazy masked guy attacks an Indian military convoy and threatens to destroy the whole country unless they act fast. A tough army captain named Misha runs into this mysterious attacker in Shanghai and manages to hurt him real bad, but then something wild happens—his wounds just heal instantly and he takes off. She reports this to her commanding officer, who tells her to team up with two soldiers who got kicked out of the army: Freddy and Rocky. Only Rocky is willing to jump back in.
Misha and Rocky head to London with a tech expert named Pam who's supposed to help them out. Things get intense when their commanding officer gets shot by the masked guy, so they decide to break into the London underground to find some stolen package. Freddy shows up to join the fight, and when they finally crack open the vault, they discover the "package" is actually a woman—Priya, who happens to be Freddy's old girlfriend. Turns out her brain has been encoded with secret codes for some super high-tech defense system called Karan Kavach.
Then the masked attacker reveals himself to be Kabir, who used to be friends with Freddy and Rocky back in the day. He's a scientist with some seriously intense plans, and he's got a whole army backing him up. The movie sets up this whole backstory about how Kabir once wanted to help the military with some kind of cloning technology that could create programmable soldiers, but things went sideways when his ambitions got way too dangerous and power-hungry.
