2013 · action · comedy · drama
Boss
Directed by Anthony D'Souza2h 23m2013
Disowned by his father as a boy, Surya is taken in by a crime boss. When his brother Shiv is wrongly imprisoned, his father pleads for Surya's help.
Our read: Boss (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
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“You want loud masala action, family reconciliation, and Akshay Kumar swaggering through chaos.”
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