Paa (2009) ***1/2
Some times after you have achieved a lot in your career ,you give options for others to experiment in you! Its like grandfather lending his time and patience for his grandchildren.Amitabh has nothing to prove for himself .But if he has to take one movie in which you wouldn’t see BIG-B as Amitabh is Paa.Because Paa is a director’s movie and Paa goes as the finest experimentation done by Balki with Amitabh which succeeds as a gentle breeze.This movie brings the 60+ actor in a completely surprising performance !
Its not difficult to enter in to the world of 12 yr old Auro who is affected by Progeria .He is sharp,witty,emotional,funny,naughty and serious too.He has question and comments like the normal kids of his age.Every body are good with Auro and every body takes care of him ,they are conscious of what they are doing when Auro is near them.It makes comfortably ride with Auro ,not introspecting much in to his inner feelings.Not even a second, You can even find the shades of Amitabh in the whole movie.The whole episode brings a simple ,moving presentation of a human being. You will some of the best humorous scenes in the recent past in this movie when Auro discusses with his friend and when his friend compares himself with his dad. Absolute price less fun and you would not seen such a sharp dialogues in the recent past.
Movie is engaging for its sharp,humorous dialogues and performances.The acting matches the writing.Abishek’s role has some dramatic scenes involved but can be excused considering the whole presentation’s quality. The movie fantastically depicts the relationship between a mother and kid .It just takes the peek inside the difficulties of a single mother in raising a kid who is affected by serious disease. There is one scene where Vidhya’s Mom tells Abishek on why she is very adamant” Raising a kid single handedly makes a woman strong”.VidhyaBalan could not get a better role than this and she has lived to the character which Balki dreamt of.Its not at easy to look and emote like a Mother of a 13 year old but Vidhya has swept it away with such a brilliance.
Paresh Rawal is such a natural actor that he can impress you even with a single minute of his appearance. He plays the caring father, Veteran politician, Mentor in the movie one of the very well written roles of the movie.I expected the full version of the Ghum sum song in the movie but sadly it became a bit song.BGM of the movie is grand and it makes us understand why Balki wanted only Ilayaraja to compose for him.
Looking at the camera you can see who is the Godfather of modern day camera of Indian cinema.Camera is so fresh and it just picks the mood at the right moments.Balki has given a fantastic emotional and rightly paced movie which makes a wonderful watch.Go for it !
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