Directed By
R. Balki
Produced By
ABCL Corp
Starring
Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan
Music
Ilayaraja
Paa is an emotionally engrossing film. The performances by all three lead actors are brilliant. The story is gut-wrenching. By the end of the movie, you have to hand it over to Bollywood filmmakers. They know their craft and keep raising the bar. In an year crowded with some movie gems, Paa has the content and the capacity to hold it’s own.
The main story idea is remarkable enough, a 60-years plus actor, by far one of the greatest ever actors, playing a 12-year old geriatric, owing to a rare genetic disease. Fathered in the movie by his own real-life actor son. No wonder there was huge anticipation for this movie before it’s release. Frankly, I was queasy about watching a movie on a 12-year old suffering from a disease that makes him look 60 years – who wants to see diseased children – but the script and direction are impeccable, and you never feel sorry for the child/adult, but are absorbed by his antics and the other things happening around him. Huge cinematic achievement.
The movie is so likable because of it’s positivity. One might be in a hopeless situation – in this case an ailment which is incurable – but one doesn’t have to stop living the life one would otherwise live. Make the most of it – that is in our hands.
Rating : 4 stars
-Raj Pal
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