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Bittoo Boss lacks in content and imagination
MUMBAI: Bittoo Boss is an attempt at making one of those cute movies that work once in a while. It is about an innocent and hard working but confident boy and a rich, with-it girl.
Pulkit Samrat is a videographer covering weddings. He has made a reputation for having a special knack for capturing the spirit and happiness around wedding events. So much so that muhurat would be overlooked if he was late to arrive at the venue.
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Producers: Kumar Mangat Pathak, Abhishek Pathak. |
But Pulkit Samrat is a hero right out of 1960s films, a simpleton and clean of heart. At one such wedding he sees Amita Pathak and is besotted by her.
Soon, he is chasing her instead of chasing work. But the taming of the shrew is not easy; she will have none of his charming ways until, finally, she sees a video shot by him and as a result reciprocates his love! Coming from a rich, high society family, however, she wants him to do something more worthy and attain monetary success. With intent to help him out, she uses her own clout at a local TV channel to get him work but only manages to get him humiliated.
Samrat, now determined to make it big, agrees to shoot porn films of honeymoon couples on the sly but the good soul that he is, he ends up doing something good for his targeted victims. Like in old fashioned films, in a couple of short sequences at the end, not only does the hero paint those who Amita Pathak called high society black but he also ends up with a lucrative contract and a fat cheque from Mohan Kapoor, whose daughter‘s honour he had protected.
Bittoo Boss is a low budget film but that does not justify its low in content and imagination story and treatment. Using a lot of local Punjabi flavour and accent, its standard of narration is cheap.
The idea of comedy in the film is half a dozen girls vying with each other to tell the hero, ‘meri kab lega!‘ Musically ‘Kaun kenda ..‘ is a hummable number. Photography is passable. Editing is slack. Dialogue is routine. In performance, Pukit Samrat is impressive this being his first film. Amita Pathak is not heroine material. Rest are okay.
Bittoo Boss is not the cute movie it thinks it is and will find it tough to sustain come day two after release.
Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein has limited appeal
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Producers: Balasaheb Bhapkar, Shashank Bhapkar. |
Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein is a film on a contemporary businessman‘s life whose quest for success is never ending. So much so that he has no sense of priorities and neglects his family, his neighbours, and all social contact. There comes a time when his family revolts and he is left to fight the ghosts of his past acts.
The film is based on the Hollywood film Groundhog Day.
Sachin Khedekar is an IT professional who, having seen success, has got addicted to it and keeps on setting higher targets for him with every new success. For him the success is measured only in terms of the billions he can make. In the process, he has ignored his wife and a teenage daughter completely. His neighbours and their activities hardly exist for him except as a nuisance with their laughter club and cricket playing kids.
Giving priority to his business meet over his daughter‘s arangetram is the last straw as his wife and daughter walk out on him leaving him alone for the weekend; Sachin Khedekar starts the weekend with his friend, Atul Parchure, visiting bars but come night, he finds himself in a trap where every morning he wakes up to see the same newspaper and same sequence of events repeating while he is anxious to see Monday when he will sign a new Rs 1 billion deal. As his ordeal continues, Khedekar sets out to find a solution and meets Anupam Kher. With Anupam Kher, Khedekar learns to find happiness in life through various small things that he overlooked all the time.
The story is more personal and hence of limited appeal. Direction as well as the ambience is more Marathi-oriented since the film has also been made in Marathi. Performance wise, Sachin Khedekar is good while Anupam Kher excels.
Hindi
Kridhan Infra enters film production with AI-led feature film
Infra firm debuts AI-powered film marking RSS centenary
MUMBAI: Kridhan Infra Limited is swapping hard hats for headsets. The infrastructure company has announced its entry into film production and media technology through its subsidiary, Kridhan Mediatech Private Limited, with the nationwide theatrical release of Shatak: Sangh Ke 100 Varsh, an AI-led feature film.
With Shatak, the company is not just stepping into cinema but staking a claim in what it describes as one of the world’s early full-length AI-driven feature films. Artificial Intelligence has been embedded across the creative and production process, from script visualisation and environment creation to modelling and production design.
The film commemorates 100 years of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, tracing defining moments, personalities and historical phases that shaped its journey. By combining archival storytelling with algorithm-powered creativity, the project attempts to blend heritage with high technology.
For Kridhan Mediatech, this is only the opening scene. The subsidiary’s broader ambition spans AI, CGI, virtual production systems and scalable content models for both theatres and digital platforms. The move signals a strategic diversification for Kridhan Infra, traditionally rooted in engineering and construction.
The timing aligns with India’s growing push to become a global AI powerhouse. At the 2026 AI Impact Summit, prime minister Narendra Modi urged innovators to design in India and deliver to the world. Kridhan Mediatech’s initiative positions itself squarely within that narrative, aiming to export technology-enabled storytelling beyond domestic audiences.
India’s media and entertainment industry, valued at over Rs 2.5 lakh crore, alongside a rapidly expanding AI economy projected to cross Rs 1.4 lakh crore in the coming years, offers fertile ground at the intersection of cinema and code.
“With Shatak, we proudly present one of the world’s first AI-led full-length feature films while marking our strategic entry into film production and media technology through our subsidiary,” the company said in a statement. “Our vision is to combine India’s rich narrative heritage with forward-looking innovation. This is just the beginning of building globally competitive, technology-enabled cinematic experiences.”
From infrastructure to imagination, Kridhan’s latest venture suggests that in today’s India, even storytelling can be engineered.
