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| REVIEW: MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP |
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| Cast: Akshay Khanna, Genelia D'Souza, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri | | Director: Priyadarashan | | Producer: Raman Maroo | | Music: Vidyasagar |
By Anupama Chopra, Consulting Editor, Films
In the first five minutes of Mere Baap, Pehle Aap, director Priyadarshan sets the bar painfully low.
We begin with an item number in which Om Puri, playing a 50-something bachelor who is desperate to get married cavorts on a beach with nubile women who sing, khali bali, main hoon kunwari kali.
This cuts to a scene where he is looking at photographs of potential wives. He dismisses one saying: iski expiry date paas hai. For another, he comments: Yeh accha piece hai.
At this point, I thought: well, at least it can’t get worse. Of course it does.
Mere Baap is the remake of the hit Malayalam film Ishtam, about a loving son trying to reunite his widower father with his lost love.
Obviously a lot was lost in translation. The story had potential for comedy and heart-warming drama. But Priyadarshan and his cast rework it into a crude, loud, singularly unfunny film.
The lead actors—Paresh Rawal and Akshaye Khanna—seem to be on auto-pilot and even the divine, National award winning actress Shobhana is reduced to a prop. Mere Baap is cinema as Chinese torture. Steer clear.
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Surfer Speaks....
First half is third-rate. 2nd half is just about bearable. Overall a waste of time!
At best half star can be given to this lousy flick.
May be for mediocre Indian viewers the rating is three stars. -- Prats
mere baap pehle aap is a remake of malayalam film ishtam. director priyadarshan did a good job. cinematography is also well.story & music of the film is at average. paresh rawal and akshay khanna did justice with their role. -- bhushan (bhushan.tvpr@gmail.com)
Totally a waste of fine talent Akshay, Paresh and Om Puri. The story never picks up a truly very ordinary story line with very subtlle comedy. Certain parts of the movie wherein Akshay (Son) is scolding Paresh (Father) seem derogatory and not humorous -- Maddy King
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