
Share Bazaar
- Director
- Manmohan
- Studio
- Soundtrack
- Release Date
- 1 January 1997
- Language
- Hindi
- Budget
- ₹0.30 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹0.06 Cr
Review
"Share Bazaar" attempts to tackle corporate villainy and moral redemption on Dalal Street, but stumbles badly in execution. The premise—a street kid forced into an elaborate frame-job scheme—has genuine potential, yet the film drowns in lazy writing and uninspired direction. The story beats are predictable: innocent man wronged, reluctant accomplice develops conscience, villain exposed. We've seen this tired arc a hundred times, and here it's delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The performances feel phoned in across the board; there's no spark between characters, no tension that actually grips you. The Mehta brothers are cartoon villains without an ounce of complexity, and Raj's moral awakening happens so abruptly it feels like someone flipped a switch rather than earned character development.
What's particularly frustrating is that the film wastes its financial setting. Dalal Street deserves sharper dialogue, intelligent intrigue, psychological warfare—instead we get soap opera theatrics and heavy-handed moralizing. Direction is workmanlike at best, plodding at worst. There's no style, no visual flair, no sense of danger or urgency even when the stakes are supposedly life-or-death. The climax where Raj exposes everything to authorities feels unearned and anticlimactic, arriving with neither surprise nor satisfaction. For a film about calculated deception and high-stakes corruption, "Share Bazaar" is remarkably unintelligent and forgettable.
Rating: 4/10
Storyline
Hasmukh and Mansukh Mehta run the Mumbai Stock Exchange like kings, crushing dreams and building empires on Dalal Street with zero remorse. They've decided Shekhar's gotta go—framing him with fake charges to wipe him out completely. Enter Raj, a clever street kid they've recruited to impersonate Shekhar and slide into his life, thinking he's about to hit the jackpot.
Everything falls apart when Raj actually starts caring about the people he's supposed to destroy, especially when he realizes Shekhar's an innocent guy getting demolished by these monsters. The Mehta brothers tighten their grip, forcing Raj deeper into a web of lies and crime, but he's torn between survival and doing the right thing. Shekhar's family crumbles, his reputation explodes, and Raj watches it all happen knowing he's complicit.
Raj finally snaps and turns against his puppet masters, exposing the Mehtas' entire criminal operation to the authorities. It's messy and dangerous—these guys don't play nice—but the truth comes roaring out like a monsoon. Justice crashes down on the Mehta brothers while Shekhar's name gets cleared, and Raj gets a shot at redemption he desperately needed.



