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Boss is an Bollywood action masala film directed by Anthony D'Souza. The film will be produced by Cape of Good Films & Ashwin Varde Productions and features Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari and Ronit Roy in lead roles.
It is apparently a remake of Malayalam film Pokkiri Raja starring Mammotty, Prithviraj and Shriya Saran.
The teaser of Boss was released on 14 August 2013, along with the Akshay Kumar starrer Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! which released a day after. The theatrical trailer made its debut on YouTube on 27 August 2013, whilst the film released on 16 October 2013.
Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Developement
3.2 Casting
3.3 Music
4 Soundtrack
4.1 Critical response
5 Marketing
5.1 Guinness record
6 Controversies
7 Release
8 Critical reception
9 References
10 External links
Plot
Satyakant (Mithun Chakraborty) is a School Teacher with two sons, Surya aka the titular character Boss and Shiv. After circumstances lead Surya to be disowned by his family, he is helped by Big Boss (Danny Denzongpa), a transport business owner. Years later, Satyakant's younger son, Shiv (Shiv Pandit), bashes up the Home Minister's son Vishal who is harassing Ankita (Aditi Rao Hydari), the sister of a corrupt cop (Ronit Roy) and gets into trouble.
Cast
Akshay Kumar as Surya (Boss)
Mithun Chakraborty as Satyakant Shastri
Shiv Pandit as Shiv
Ronit Roy as Inspector Ayushman Thakur
Aditi Rao Hydari as Ankita
Johnny Lever as Zorawar
Danny Denzongpa as Tauji (Big Boss)
Sanjai Mishra as Trilok
Mukesh Tiwari as a Inspector
Parikshit Sahni as Ramnath
Shakti Kapoor as Nandu Plumber
Govind Namdeo as Minister
Aakash Dabhade as Vishal (Minister's son)
Amitabh Bachchan as Narrator
Hunar Hali as Dimple
Sonakshi Sinha in a Cameo Appearance as Herself
Prabhudeva in a Special Appearance in song "Hum Na Chhode"
Honey Singh in a Special Appearance in song "Party All Night"
Production
Developement
The director, Anthony D'Souza as well as the script writers during the scripting stages of the film were searching for a magnanimous character who could do justice to the role of Akshay Kumar, Boss in the film who is portrayed as an gangster who is ever-ready to help the needy and a larger-than-life character in the film. They chose veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator who would introduce Boss in the film. According to reports Amitabh Bachchan was sent the script in advance and journalist-turned-producer Ashwini Varde, for whom the film marks his first project as a producer offered Bachchan the role personally over a phone-call which he readily accepted. Amitabh Bachchan inspite of his hectic schedule completed the dubbing session at the earliest, on 31 August 2013 at 8:30 pm IST in Juhu's BR Dubbing Theater that too within 30 minutes, to the crew's pleasant surprise he also improvised his lines as well.
Casting
Ronit Roy who portrays the role of Ayushman Mathur apparently, the antagonist of the film.
Akshay Kumar will play a kind hearted Haryanavi gangster, apparently known as Boss and Mithun Chakraborty will enact the role of his father. Shiv Pandit will portray Akshay Kumar's younger brother's role in the film and Aditi Rao Hydari is paired opposite him. Danny Denzongpa will play Boss's mentor and Ronit Roy will play a ruthless police officer who is pitted against Kumar. The film's trailer, which was released on 27 August 2013, received tremendous response from critics and viewers alike. It exceeded 3 million views in just 10 days.[9] Ronit Roy plays the role of a police officer up against the titular character, Boss, marking the first instance where he is the antagonist of a film. It is also the second consecutive instance where his role is that of a police officer, with Shootout at Wadala being the last one, in which he played Inspector Raja Ambat, based on real-life encounter specialist Raja Tambat. Roy aand Akshay Kumar have an action sequence at the climax of the film, one of the highlights of the film, shot in temperatures exceeding 47 degrees Celsius in Thailand and involving high-octane stunts that both actors in the end performed successfully.[14]
Music
Ganesh Chaturthi, the celebratory festival occasion on which the film soundtrack was released with an Idol of Hindu Lord Ganesha to whom the 9th track of the film is dedicated.
"Lord Ganesha is considered to be the Boss of Gods. So we decided to have a version of the title track, dedicated completely to Him. It has the full Ganesh Chaturthi flavor with a lot of celebration and joy.
—Director Anthony D'Souza speaking on the inclusion of the track.
"For the Ganpati special mix, we have used a lot of dhols and lejhim beats. It is Bappa after all, so even the song has to be more than special."[15][16]
—Music Directors of the film, Meet Bros Anjjan on the composition of the track.
Video promotional for the first and title track of the film was released on YouTube on 30 August 2013 on the official channel of T-Series, the music label which has purchased the music rights of the film and subsequently for legal purchase as a soundtrack single on digital music platform, iTunes.[17][18] The song named Boss Title Song composed by Meet Bros Anjjan, sung by Anjjan Bhatacharya,Harmeet Singh & Manmeet Singh consists of rap verses performed by Yo Yo Honey Singh with lyrics penned by Kumaar. The promotional video for the second song of the film composed and sung by noted Punjabi Singer and Rapper, Yo Yo Honey Singh and lyrics by Sahil Kaushal touted to be the costliest music video ever produced in Bollywood with a production cost of around INR6 million (US$92,000) was released on 6 September 2013 after an effective promotional strategy of building hype around it by releasing two teasers named Aunty Police Bulalegi and Bajatey Raho respectively. The teasers containing snippets of the song of length 12 and 10 seconds respectively were both released on 5 September 2013.[19][20][21] The song Party All Night being marketed as an party anthem, earlier reported by Indian Media to be Sari Raat Party was made on a budget in excess of INR6 million (US$92,000) with the fee of Sonakshi Sinha being INR6 million (US$92,000) itself thus making it the expensive Bollywood music video ever shot.[22][23][24][25][26] For Sonakshi Sinha it marks her third special appearance in a song since she had earlier featured in the songs Go Go Govinda and Thank God Its Friday from the 2012 film OMG – Oh My God! and 2013 film Himmatwala respectively. In the former she appeared alongside Prabhu Deva and it also starred Akshay Kumar in a supporting role. Akshay Kumar, who portrays the title character, Boss, and Yo Yo Honey Singh also appear in the track along with 600 foreign models hired to perform as background dancers. The dance moves of the track were choreographed by Sumit Dutt and Raju Khan, with Sumit Dutt having earlier choreographed songs like Desi Beat, Dhinka Chika and Character Dheela from the 2011 films, Bodyguard and Ready respectively. The song "Party All Night" was launched on television during grand finale of Dance India Dance Super Moms, a reality TV series. The reason for choosing the stage being Mithun Chakrabarty's or Mithunda's as he is fondly referred to by Akshay Kumar involvement in both the film and the TV show. He plays the role of Akshay Kumar's character, Boss's father in the former and is a judge in the latter.[27] The ninth track of the music album titled Boss Ganpati – Mix was added to the soundtrack later on request of Akshay Kumar and was recorded two days prior to the release owing to the huge appreciation of the title track which released 10 days ago and this is a version of the song with lyrics crediting the Hindu Elephant God Ganesh as the boss or king of all gods. The lyrics are written by Kumaar while the song was composed by Meet Bros Anjjan. This version differs from the original one in respect of lyrics pertaining to the Lord and use of Dhols and Lejhim beats. The track will be distributed free of cost across the Ganesh pandals across the city of Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra on the first day of Ganesh Chaturthi which will be visited Kumar himself to offer prayers also.[15][16][28] The song Hum Na Tode composed by first time composer P.A.Deepak who has previously mixed sound most notably for A. R. Rahman in Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire and consequently won a Grammy Award for it. The track, Hum Na Tode is an adapted version of the immensely popular Tamil song, Apdi Pode Pode' or as it is known in Tamil Appadi Podu from the film Ghilli sung by Vishal Dadlani.[29][30][31] The song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta composed by Kalyanji Anandji for the 1986 film Janbaaz was re-adapted for the Soundtrack by Chirantan Bhatt and has two versions. One is sung by Nikhil D'Souza and the other by Arijit Singh.