Misunderstanding "The Baap". Review on Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap

How do you feel if you you are an addict, and someone tells you that he will get you the same addiction back in the real form, the real thing, and when you take it, you feel betrayed? as if one the name of Teacher's or Blender's pride, you were given Desi Tharra? The same is with BHTB, on the name of "Return of Angry Young Man!", or a "Fan's tribute". Those who have lived in the era or 1970s and 80s know it very well that there can be no one bigger than Amitabh. The kind of frenzy, crazy, Godly, Amitabh gave to the era of 70s and 80s can nver be repeated in the history of India, forget Indian cinema. Long before RajiniKant and Sachind, God was realized in the name of any profession in term of Amitabh Bachchan. When this man got enjured in 1983, I am the witness of the public's response which in my sense none ever got or can ever imagine. People dedicated their lives, every evening and morning people would pray for Amitabh, roads would be blocked with Namazis, sacrifices of several lives went, .when the doctor in breach candy had declared that Amitabh was medically dead! And just on prayer of millions of Indians, this man returned back to entertain you, touch your heart and have lasting impression on you for always. Its said " Once an Amitabh fan, always his fan". Amitabh is a never ending addiction, and know that who have lived in the era of 70s and 80s. It was the best era of cinema, full of grandeur, raw royal hot blooded: be it romance(Saagar, Julie, QSQT, Love Story, Betaab) or action, from actors to songs to singers to cinematography. Camera would take large frame, power of 70mm was proven best, angling of cameras and locations would be terrific. Kishor's voice fitting so superbly the manly stature of heroes there whose 1 to 10 men was Amitabh alone!

Amid this, when you watch a charasi fraudgiri movie like this one selling name of Amitabh and his old times, you just feel asking this man: Before this movies, do you remember how Vijay said in Deewar "Peter tum mujhe dhoondh rahe ho aur mai tumahara intezaar yahan kar raha hoon?", or Silsila's main aur meri Tanhai? or Kabhi Kabhi's " Main Shayar pal do pal Ka?", Don's " Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi Namumkin hai", His ditching love story of Saudagar like classic, or his hot blooded love story of MKS, or his cold blooded revenge of Bemisaal with "Saheli", or his entry scenes of coolie, walking on the top of train, with allah rakkha and puff of bidi, or Vijay Dinanath speaking, Vijay of kala Paththar or Naseeb's man with Chal chal mere bhai, or a loving caring brother with 6 brothers of Satte pe Satta singing a comadiere song "Pyar Hume" or Lost lover of Sharabi, or the great friend Jai? Man you claim yourself as a fan of Amitabh, but seems you purely forgot what Amitabh means! On his name you presented a broken mirror, whise pieces were tried to be glued together without even caring for complementarity. This is the truth of BHTB.

Story is the height of bankruptcy: I was watching Namak Halal and felt compelled to write this review on this so caled tribute. I had decided not to write on crap movies but after seeing Namak Halal on Smax I decided I will share the truth about this movie which is an insult on Amitabh. There is no story line. The entire movie seems to be pathetic gag. Sometime you find Amitabh reciting his old days dialogues or songs. All of sudden some other scene appears. The number of locations are redundant. The villians seem to have gone brankrupt and as if they don't have even a good one bed room flat on rent but they are able to blast Bombay and kill the ministers and MLAs! They are always confined to same dingy room, as if all criminals of Bombay had to stay in that room only. The so called suspense is split wide open even before the interval!

Performance: This movie has got nothing except Amitabh himself. Amid this hugly cheap movie, his performance is the only saving grace. You enjoy only those scenes where he speaks, despite of the fact that no real work has been done on the scene, dialogues, screenplay, editing or script. This man still saves the thing. Makarand Deshpande and Prakash Raj like good artists have been wasted. They have been reduced to mere caricatures, with no real substance to pit against the hero. U just pity them and the director as if that he has forgotten the basic fact of movie making that in order to bolster the hero you need equally strong opponent character.

Song: This department is equally pathetic. Barring the theme song and HaaleDil, all other songs are crap. Even these two songs are hardly bearable. Go Meera is a poor remix take on old songs of Amitabh. It as looking as if Amitabh hiself was spoofing on his old songs!

Take on so callled stylist: Heard a lot about styling, but really could not find anything. Wearing 3 watches like of kiddish was the concept on the name of style. I found real days Amitabh much stylish with his knotted shirt in Deewar, Or turned cap in Amar Akbar Anthony, or Bullet of Muquaddar Ka Sikandar doing much menace than this Harley Davidson. The Gateup of Forest Officer Khan while riding Bullet in Andha Kanoon was much super. Here agains Amitabh is doing with same irritating french cut beards, completely disrespectign the required getup for the character. This french cut has become a big irritating facotr. Either keep full beard or moustache only but please give us break from this repetivie FC. Had I been the stylist, Amitabh would have pierced eyebrows and lips, a different bear moustache than his repetitive and irritating frech cut, perhaps one ith this moustache like Akabr's, while retaining thin layer of white beards on entire face, a ponnystyled long hair going upto his waist, where he would be wearing broad hairband and a pipe in his mouth always. Golding ring in middle or thumb, eyes lines wth black, A white shoe must, on which thick red blood would drop on the final scenes, which would wash away self and white appearing again.

Directions, screenplay etc: There was a dacoit in old times, Unglimaal. he used to wear a garland of finger's of his victims whom he looted. The director of this movie should be "Jootemaal Daku", as he deserves no less than a garland of shoes to wear for disrupting Amitabh like legend, misleading people on the name of his real thing, Those who have not been part of real Amitabh era, would take the impression otherwise. Therefore this man has done more damage to Amitabh. There is a famous story of a King and his Monkey friend who chopped king's nose to fly away the fly. Same is with this director who belong to Ram Gopal Varma. This Varma camp together seems to a bunch of idiots out there with their misunderstanding of their foolishness with intellectualism while sabotaging Amitabh. Man Amitabh is the only man who had mass as well as class appeal. But before making a movie, you need to understand what it really meant to be Amitabh. Just imagine how one would feel if you present a joke on the name of epic, when you try to contain a sea in a bisleri bottle. BHTB is just that, Hope Amitabh does not make such mistakes agains and stick to ChiniKum, Paa, BLACK, Khakhee kind of movie and keep on telling us in the true sense " Buddha Hoga Tera Baap"!

Better wait for the real Amitabh in Aarakshan or Shoebite. These chawanni chaap low intellect directors can only be good a fan, but certainly "not eligible" to direct the God of Indian Cinema.

-RR