Beeba Boys
| Beeba Boys | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Deepa Mehta |
| Produced by | David Hamilton |
| Written by | Deepa Mehta |
| Starring | Randeep Hooda |
| Cinematography | Karim Hussain |
| Edited by | Colin Monie |
Production companies |
Hamilton Mehta Productions |
| Distributed by | Mongrel International |
Release dates |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language |
English Punjabi |
Beeba Boys is a 2015 Canadian crime thriller film written and directed by Deepa Mehta. It stars Randeep Hooda as Jeet Johar, a loving single father, a dutiful son, a proud, observant Sikh and a ruthless gangster managing a team of stylish, charismatic but brutal and unforgiving young men. The film is a fictional take based on real incidents, including Bindy Johal.
Plot
Jeet Johar, a guarded, ruthless gangster within the very real criminal underground populated by second- and third-generation Indian immigrants on Canada’s west coast. As Jeet competes with rival gangs for an increasingly shrinking turf, the single father and dutiful son is forced to violently demand respect, ensuring the Beeba Boys’ continued survival in present-day Vancouver.
Cast
- Randeep Hooda as Jeet Johar
- Sarah Allen as Katya Drobot
- Gulshan Grover as Robbie Grewal
- Waris Ahluwalia as Manny
- Paul Gross as Jamie
- Ali Momen as Nep
- Steve Dhillon as Harry
- Gabe Grey as Lovely
- Ali Kazmi as Guri[1]
- Jag Bal as Jazz
- Balinder Johal as Mummyji
- David Suzuki as himself (cameo)
Release
Beeba Boys premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[2][3] The first trailer was released on 29 July 2015 as part of the TIFF festival marketing.[4]
The film was released in theatres on 16 October 2015.[5]
Reception
The Globe and Mail gave a negative review of the film, noting its "great premise... repeatedly dragged down by the director, her script and her cast."[6]
The South Asian Post, an Indo-Canadian weekly based in Vancouver, published a scathing review of the film stating that the filmmaker tries "to get all the ingredients into this recipe: gangster threatening rival, gangster going to jail, gangster in court, gangster courting his moll, all stirred together with a couple of cultural scenes, and voila the souffle. Unfortunately, the pieces do not sum to a whole greater than its parts." [7]
References
- ↑ "Ali Kazmi Only Gets Meaner". Dawn.com.
- ↑ "Emma Watson, Kate Winslet, and Many More Are Ready to Blow You Away at the Fall’s Biggest Film Festival". Vanity Fair. 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ↑ "Toronto to open with 'Demolition'; world premieres for 'Trumbo', 'The Program'". ScreenDaily. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ↑ "Deepa Mehta Turns To Guns And Crime In First Trailer For Her BEEBA BOYS". Twitch Film. twitchfilm.com. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
- ↑ "Deepa Mehta's Beeba Boys debut". Cineplex.com. 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ↑ Taylor, Kate (16 October 2015). "Beeba Boys: Deepa Mehta drags down film glamorizing Sikh organized crime". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- ↑ Mann, Jagdeesh (29 September 2015). "Indo gangster film shoots blanks". The South Asian Post. Retrieved 29 September 2015.