Boom

About the film

Boom is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language black-comedy thriller film directed by Kaizad Gustad and produced by Ayesha Dutt. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Padma Lakshmi, Madhu Sapre, Zeenat Aman and Katrina Kaif (in her feature film debut). Boom was Kaif's debut film as she was a last-minute replacement of model Meghna Reddy. The movie released on 19 September 2003, exploring the involvement of fashion world with underworld organised crime.

Plot

Anu Gaekwad, Sheila Bardez and Rina Kaif are three of India's most successful models. They are participating in a fashion show hosted by a renowned diamonds and jewellery brand. During the show, one of the other models trips Anu, causing her to fall to the ground — a model's worst nightmare. Fortunately, her friends Sheila and Rina are there to support her. The trio immediately confronts the model who tripped Anu, and the situation quickly escalates into a catfight in front of the audience. As the women scuffle, they are met with a big surprise. Hundreds of glittering stolen diamonds, which were due to be smuggled out of the country, fall from the other model's hair onto the catwalk. The paparazzi and celebrities quickly pick them up. Anu, Sheila and Rina are shocked as the fashion show descends into chaos. The diamonds are priceless and the gangsters responsible for the failed heist blame the glamorous trio for it. They demand that the trio recover them. The diamonds were destined for Dubai and had been stolen by Chhote Mia. They were then to be handed to his brothers. Determined to retrieve the diamonds, Bade Mia, the leader of the trio, starts playing cat and mouse with the models and the gangsters.

Music

The soundtrack was composed by Sandeep Chowta and Talvin Singh.

Box office

The film performed very poorly at the box office. Its lifetime collections amounted to about Rs. 12 million. The producer of the film, Ayesha Shroff, had to sell off some of her assets as well her husband's (Jackie Shroff); the money owed to one financier alone amounted to Rs. 180 million. Shroff later indicated that his marriage suffered as a consequence, and that his relationship with his wife "was tough after Boom."

In June 2020, her son, actor Tiger Shroff, opened up about the impact of Boom's failure on his family. The actor said, "I remember how our furniture was sold off, one by one. Things I'd grown up seeing around us started disappearing. Then my bed went. I started to sleep on the floor. It was the worst feeling of my life."

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