Exclusive Paa Review - Simple and Beautiful!!

Cast – Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal, Arundhati Nag

Direction – R. Balki

Paa is a light hearted film with elements of comedy and seriousness in it. Tackling tough issues like the single mother, premarital relationships, , a life threatening and deforming disease (Progeria) that Auro is suffering from, and corruption that our country is suffering from, in a light way. The film concentrates on the basic plot due to which it is is high on emotions.

Paa’s brilliance lies in its simplicity. The film is shot in a simple way, the acting never looks over the top, the scenes are simple, music is very simple, and everything looks beautiful!!! The dialogs of the film are good too, apart from a few which could have been avoided and were added for unnecessary laughs.

While the promos suggested that the film would focus on the chemistry between BigB and JuniorB, and Vidya Balan would just be a third character in the film, the film actually gives every actor the required screen time and the film had more scenes between Vidya Balan-Amitabh Bachchan than Abhishek-Amitabh. In fact the affection shown between BigB and Arundhati Nag was also very good.

Amitabh Bachchan, once again proves his brilliance in acting. Believe me, if you don’t know the look of Amitabh Bachchan in the film before watching the film, you will keep searching for him in the entire film. Auro hardly looks like Amitabh Bachchan. I would give 10/10 to the makeup artist for doing the makeup of Auro. Whether Amitabh Bachchan will spoil Shahid’s chances of winning the best actor trophy remains to be seen. Abhishek Bachchan, playing the role of a young politician who wants to remove corruption from the country and wants to remove the dirtiness from the word politics, does a very fine job playing the father of his real father. His character had shades of Rahul Gandhi in him. But for me Vidya Balan stole the show when it comes to acting. Playing the role of a single mother and a gynecologist, she excels!! She always has looked good in simple characters like Parineeta. For me she is the new Juhi Chawla who too used to excel in simple roles. I thought Vidya Balan was a bit unlucky to have faced Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met) in 2007. She was excellent as Majulika in Bhool Bhulaiya. Yet again in 2009 she faces Kareena Kapoor (Kurbaan) with Priyanka Chopra too in Kaminey. It was great to see Arundhati Nag (Dil Se..) back in the film. She too did her job very well.

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