Baby

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Danny Denzongpa, Rana Daggubati,Anupam Kher,Taapsee Pannu, Kay Kay Menon, Madhurima Tuli,Mikaal Zulfiqar(Ashfaq),Sushant Singh(Wasim), Murali Sharma and Rasheed Naz(Maulana)

Director: Neeraj Pandey

Genre:  Action, Crime, Thriller

 

Long time Bollywood produced a good watch. This movie is worth a wait from Akshay Kumar and Neeraj Pandey. If you love Bollywood and action thrillers, you shouldn't give this a miss!

 

You may look forward to:

 

• Akshay Kumar, after quite a gap in a serious role. Certianly, action thrillers has always worked more for him than continued comedy ventures. He is fit as ever and does very well fit into the shoes of  Tom Cruise of our Bollywood. He takes you through a bumpy ride through the entire 2.5 hours of the movie, never getting bored, and thrilling you in every scene. I am on the 'Love Akshay Kumar' campaign yet again :)
• Neeraj Pandey, does a appreciably good job in directing an otherwise long movie, literally keeping you at the edge of your seat, specially in the second half of the movie. Long time having come across one Bollywood movie minus too many directorial flaws. Kudos! The success well deserved and worthy celebration for the team :)
• Danny Denzongpa, again in a very promising role after 'Bang Bang'. I didn't appreciate him much in the later. This one sets him apart, good dialogues in nicely delivered scenes
• Taapsee Pannu, is a treat to the eyes. :) She is fuller and pretty and a surprise package of action. She certainly steals all the limelight as it comes to the female actresses of the movie
• Mikaal Zulfiqar,Sushant Singh and Murali Sharma, have brief roles, and all the three of them make impactful presence on screen
• The storyline of the movie is good keeping in mind the actions that are taken by the team members of 'Baby', however completely missing out on the other side of it, where from the beginning till the end, audience stays in oblivion of what were the unknown motives of the terrorist that of which Baby tried to stop and control, apart from just capturing them. Nevertheless, the movie doesn't give you much leeway to mull over such stuffs and keeps you engaged with many other events and beautiful locations

What you can sleep over:

 

 

Rana Daggubati and Anupam Kher, i would say didn't have a very great role. Anupam Kher never looks like a tech genius, and Rana is much more than just his body and physical capacity. Nevertheless, they fit in the team and work along.


 

The dampeners you should be aware of:

• Kay Kay Menon and Rasheed Naz, lacks impact. For all the big chatters amongst the most wanted terrorist, they hardly are shown doing anything big or notorious, except for certain rumors of planning something possibly big. Nor their moves neither their dialogues speak of something thrilling
• Madhurima Tuli just cannot act. Ajay's family angle is completely dampened due to this one role, unlike those in Hollywood movies, where this aspect however small, is still significant. We lose here big time

My Rating: 3.5/5