BellBottom movie review: Akshay Kumar delivers a racy, pacy entertainer
Recollect the faintly crazy chime bottoms, those hugely erupted pants brandished by fashionistas and plebs the same during the 70s and 80s? Akshay Kumar's RAW specialist, Code Name Bell Bottom, steals them away with bright comic book style. That is by and large the tone of the film, which doesn't wrongly act over the top with itself, in spite of the earnestness of its subject. It is molded as a shocking, pacy performer beginning to end, and never neglects to focus on its level headed, misrepresented circumstances and characters cheerfully to the front. This inexactly fictionalized actioner, in view of a grasp of genuine hijackings of Indian Airlines planes during the 80s, has Akshay Kumar fronting it, with a lot of supporting demonstrations — Adil Hussain is tops — figuring out how to get their bit of the spotlight. It is a relaxed escapade which accepts its peppy, senseless soul, and transforms into a commendable trip for the big screen in these Covid times. Something...