Bade Miyan Chote Miyan review: Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff serve a formulaic action spectacle with abundant swag

Bade Miyan Chote Miyan review: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff's chemistry is the highlight of this Ali Abbas Zafar 'action film by numbers'.

Is bringing two big action stars together a job almost done? Star power does help create the right buzz to some extent and Bade Miyan Chote Miyan ticks most boxes when it comes to serving a masala entertainer that's massy and classy at the same time. But does it really promise a good time at the movies? It has some good-looking actors, stunning locations, high-octane action, quality VFX, and to top it all, a director like Ali Abbas Zafar who has helmed blockbusters such as Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai. But where is the novelty?

Even the storyline, where heroes Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff are trying to save 'Karan Kavach', the most dangerous weapon India has made to protect itself from Pakistan and China, seems lifted from the 2022, Aditya Roy Kapur-starrer Rashtra Kavach Om. My congratulations if you managed to survive that film.

Coming back to BMCM, its screenplay ends up looking like pieces picked from Pathaan, Jawan, War and Marvel films. There is barely anything in the film that you have not seen in the past. To put it simply, it's the recycled version of all done to death tropes that Bollywood has been relying for a tad too long now.