• Review: Baba
• Director : Raj R Gupta
• Star Cast: Deepak Dobriyal, Nandita Patkar, Aryan Menghji, Spruha Joshi, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Chittranjan Giri & Jaywant Wadkar
• Screenplay: Manish Singh
• Producer: Maanayata Dutt & Ashok Subhedar

Quick Viewpoint: The basic one liner for ‘Baba’ does have a lot of emotional strength. And to some extent the film does explore it well up until the first half. But somewhere in the second half it loses it’s focus and then never really recovers.

What Works? 

• As said above, the basic story line of the film, where two sets (out of which one set is deaf and dumb) of parents are battling for a kid, is very believable. The situation that has caused this conflict might seem slightly filmy but the complexity of the scenario is from the real world. No parties are wrong yet one of them has to loose!
• The lead cast of the deaf and dumb parents (Dobriyal and Patkar) and the kid (Aryan) belong together in every way. Their chemistry works even more effectively as they are made to communicate without words!
• The film is technically well made, the music especially works really well to give it a light-hearted playful tone mainly in the first half.
• Even when the second half has issues the end is effective, not that it undoes the errors of the film but it still has lasting impression. It is not overly melodramatic and neither is it emotionally dull.

What Fails? 

• In the second half the film wastes too much time on a very irrelevant, unimportant sub track! The whole track could have been summed up in 5 minutes but the film wastes at least 20 minutes or more over it.
• In the end the film gives a sensible vocal perspective to what it wanted to say about the society which treats deaf and dumb individuals differently. Unfortunately the film fails to imbibe the message into the actual screenplay and simply covers it in the climax.
• The deaf and dumb parents are understandably too attached to the kid but never do they realize the importance of a different life for their kid. Maybe unintentionally the film projects them as selfish parents who couldn’t see what’s best for their kid beyond their love for him.
• The other parents portrayed by Spruha Joshi and Abhijeet Khandkekar deserved more exploration as characters in the film. They even have a legit sub-track worthy conflict between them! But the film fails at exploring them and making them lesser important in the story which doesn’t make us understand their emotional side of the story.

Final Verdict: ‘Baba’ is a decent film that can be seen with the family. But with minimum expectations.

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Both Spruha Joshi and Abhijit Khandkekar started their careers around same time. Parallelly they have grown on to become matured actors and have earned lots of love and appreciation from the audience! Both have known each other throughout this journey and have been good friends. Another thing that both of them have in common is the skill of hosting shows and events! Now they will soon be seen sharing the screen together in the upcoming Marathi film ‘Baba‘ releasing on 2nd of August!

‘Baba’ is the first Marathi film of Sanjay Dutt as a producer. It stars popular Hindi actor Deepak Dobriyal in a mute character and it’s a heart touching story about parenthood. Spruha & Abhijit play the characters of parents who suddenly arrive in the lives of a happy family. They start claiming that the kid that has been brought up by the deaf and dumb parents do not belong to them.

The conflict is such that both sides have real emotional attachment with the kid and hence it would be interesting to see how does this conflict resolve in the film! Spruha and Abhijit have mainly been seen in younger roles but these characters seem to be challenging their acting skills for sure! Moreover their performance will be tested against incredibly talented actors like Deepak Dobriyal, Nandita Patkar & Chittaranjan Giri!

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Sanjay Dutt produced first Marathi film ‘Baba‘ created a lot of excitement among audiences after it’s teaser. Bollywood actor Deepak Dobriyal is being seen in a Marathi film for the first time and now the trailer of the film reveals the actual plot of the film and the rest of the important characters. Along with Nandita Patkar & Deepak Dobriyal the film also stars Spruha Joshi & Abhijeet Khandkekar!

The film seems to raise questions about parenthood in a very subtle way. Are emotions more important or is it important to think practically. The age old social & economical difference between two strata of society now has another layer in this film when one pair of parents are deaf and dumb, whereas others are normal.

While such stories are not being seen for the first time in our films, ‘Baba’ still feels like an emotionally impactful experience mainly because of the actors involved in the film! The film releases in theatres on 2nd of August and promises to appeal to the family audiences in particular!

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While Sanjay Dutt has always shown the Marathi influence in his style, from his dressing sense to the way he speaks in Mumbaiya language on and off screen, Sanju Baba as he is fondly called has always been a close icon for the Marathi Manoos! And now Sanju Baba has ventured into Marathi cinema as a producer! Incidentally his film is titled ‘Baba‘!

The first teaser of the film is out and it feels very heart touching. The lead actor in the film Deepak Dobriyal has proved his talent through many great Hindi films in recent times like Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Hindi Medium! He is playing a muted character in this film and is proving that acting is acting no matter which film industry it is! Along with him child artist Aaryan Menghji too captures our fascination from the teaser.

While this film mainly looks like a father son story, the film also stars many important names from the Marathi film industry. Mainly Nandita Patkar, Spruha Joshi, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Chittaranjan Giri & Jaywant Wadkar. Sanjay Dutt and his wife Maanayata Dutt have together produced this film. The film is co-produced under their banner Sanjay S Dutt Productions, with Ashok Subhedar and Aarti Subhedar of Blue Mustang Creations, who had earlier produced the film “Bucket List” starring Madhuri Dixit.

‘Baba’ hits theatres on the 2nd of August!

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• Movie : Baba (2019) | बाबा
• Producer : Maanayata Dutt & Ashok Subhedar
• Director : Raj R Gupta
• Studio : Sanjay Dutt’s Productions & Blue Mustang Creations
• Star Cast :
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• Written By : Manish Singh
• Screenplay and Dialogues : NA
• Lyrics : NA
• Sound : NA
• Sound Design : NA
• Music : NA
• Background Music : NA
• Cinematography (DOP) : NA
• Editor : NA
• Art Director : NA
• Costume : NA
• Make-up : NA
• Presenter : NA
• Choreography : NA
• Co-Producer : NA
• Visual Promotions : NA
• Digital Promotions : NA
• DI Colorist : NA
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 2nd Aug 2019

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