“Mere paas MAA hai” se … PAA tak

Continuing with the title above, Amitabh Bachchan has never seemed to impress me, I mean his performances, and not his movies. Right from the “Babu Moshayyyy” to “Anthony Gonsalves” to “Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi…” to “Rishtey mein toh…” to “Vijay Dinanath Chauhan hainnn” to “Sarkar – Sarkar Raaj”, I never frenzied at his performances, however, I have liked some of the movies in terms of content and story telling.

Paa is no different. The best part of the movie was that I did not realise that Amitabh was in that movie (the worst part – Abhishek playing the lead role), I was completely bowled over by Auro, and the entire credit goes to R. Balki for conceptualizing it and the make-up artistes who brought it to reality. So talking about Paa, all my praise will go to filmmaking, cinematography, and screenplay. I will excuse myself from talking much about the characters of the movie.

Balki, an ad maker, and hence a naturally creative person has done good justice with regards to filmmaking. The way in which the titles were presented was something very innovative and creative.

Sreeram with cinematography was fabulous too, trying to match the perfect hues and saturations to get those rightly toned images.

My thumbs up to a well balanced script, with slightly peppered melodrama and astute humour.

Though I had dodged talking about characters, I would surely love to praise Vishnu, Auro’s school friend. Vishnu displayed amazing confidence in portraying that role with exceptional dialog delivery skills. Vidya Balan (Auro’s Mum) was good too and so was Bum (Auro’s Mum’s Mum) :-]

Loose ends of the movie – too much of socio-politico drama, was not required really. Yes, the political and social messages given were fair enough. However, they were given out too loudly; the entire flair of father-son story got diluted in all this somewhere.

Ahh, talking about father-son story, I, in my personal opinion think that it was more of a mother-son story. Nobody is talking about it was the mother who has nourished Auro in her womb and nurtured him till he turned 12. The active participation of the two women (mum and bum) was conveniently sidelined and the complete focus was zoomed in on Abhishek Bachchan, which does not make any impact in anyways. The farthest logic that I can see in Baby B encashing on all the jazz is just that he (and his paa) were producers of the movie.

Go and watch Paa (with your family) for a refreshing experience. Don’t worry about Bachchans, the elder goes unnoticed (Auro is so enticing) and the younger is just rattling on the microphone and making some ugly faces.