Paa: Pushing to be acclaimed the best performance by Amitabh Bachchan till now

Paa,
My rating: 1/5.
Directed by Balakrishnan, the movie stars Amitabh Bachchan as a sick child, with Abhishek Bachchan as his father and Vidya Balan as mother.


The publicity team has done a great job by trying to portray it as the best effort by Amitabh Bachahan till now. It is no where close to it. The glass scene in Amar Akbar Anthony, the maturity portrayed in Hum, the natural accent in Agnipath are far stellar performances by him.

But I must give credit to the movie for doing some justice at least to the Talent that Amitabh is. After recent flops by Amtiabh, this one raises some hope. It has been produced under the banner of ABCL which I thought had vanished some time back.

Spoiler: skip this paragraph if you don't like the story being told before you watch the movie.
The story is about a 13 year old child played by Amitabh Bachahan(almost unrecognizable), who is suffering from Progeria. Due to this illness, his ageing is 4-5 times his actual age. Children suffering from this illness usually die at the age of 14-15. And this age advance is not just mental, it is physical as well. Because of this, the child looks very old.
The child was born because of unsafe sex between Abhishek Bachchan (playing Amol Atre, a young politician) and Vidya Balan (playing the child's mother). One thing I liked here is that the first time I saw the taboo of actually saying the word 'comdom' being broken. Amol Atre once clearly calls out that the child was born because they didn't use Condom. At least among teenagers, it is very common in India not to have any knowledge of safe sex and all the details.
I remember my own embarassing details. All that I knew was from some magazines my friends used to bring in college. In fact I didnt knew about about what causes AIDS till my first year in college, about menstruation till second year in college, and about the so called contraction at child birth till an year after completing college..

The movie mostly revolves around the child and his single mother and how Abhishek Bachahan comes forward to accept him as his own son.
The ending is sad with the father mother coming together but as the inevitable, the child dies. The notable thing in the movie was the make up of AB done by Christien Tinsley, the same one who did the make up of Christ in Mel Gibson directed Passion Of Christ.
The movie is quite a close copy of the movie Anjali, which came long back about a child having terminal sickness. But Anjali was class apart,, better directed and the small cute childish sequences were better in it. The story line in that movie was also very very touchy and so was the scena sequence while still being plain enough to entertain children as well as adults.
No wonder I still remember not only the name but many scenes of the movie as well though I was like 7-8 years old when I watched the movie.


Adios.
Sid