Saturday, December 26, 2009

Paa - an unfurled story!!


'Cinematic' is the common word I hear often as friends discuss about "Paa"..but, this film has a very broad perspective which most of us have realized. The movie is full of life and arouses your keenness till the very end.

The movie is ushering with positives..A few that moved me..
  • There are plenty of instances which make you emote and understand the mental setup of a 12-year old victim of Progeria. Apart from the sullen feel you get, there is lot more to learn from "The gynecologist" of the movie - Vidya Balan. She essayed a wonderful role as mother of Auro...A bundle of boldness with indigenous subtle feelings. Her bold portrayal made me wonder if such strong-willed women still exist?? Vidya has done a neat job and is definitely an inspiration for mothers with differently-abled children..She has invariably taught us to fight against the odds with a soothing smile..Although she gained this level of confidence only because of her onscreen doting mom, who inspired the gynec to fight all odds.. Nobody can forget the marvelous performance of Arundathi Nag as "Bum"..
  • Secondly, the "young politician" played by Abhishek Bachan,committed to make the nation corruption-free...The intention of the politician remains undeterred unlike real-life politicians who would have done everything possible to keep the media and people ignorant about his 'progenic' child...Good performance Amol..But this character needs to have shown some more emotion towards his brilliant wife..After all, the single mother must've handled so much of societal and emotional pressure to bring up her child
  • Am surely not doing justice to this blog if I do not appreciate the child prodigy of the year Auro alias Amitabh Bachan...A significant performance by the Shenshah of bollywood...The movie gets life maily from this character..An intelligent, adamant, childish boy of 12 with a physical appearance of 80..Bravado!!! Auro also scores 100 on maturity by keeping up the word he gives his mother..(पिछ्ली से पिछ्ली से पिछ्ली mistake).. He portrays a deep sense of understanding in forgiving his classmate who once made him feel low and relates the same by asking his mother to forgive his dad..Auro portrays multiple characteristics without giving us a hint that a 60-year old is actually playing a 12-year old boy..
  • The classmates of Auro have also put in great efforts and they are very apt ...Especially Vishnu has shown the frustration of a typical school going kid uninterested towards studies...(दो मर्द एक ही घर में नहीं रह सकथे)...And the resemblances of Vishnu and his dad which Auro uses to compare himself with his paa is really inspiring..Kudos to the director..
The entire movie has only necessary elements used to the fullest of their potential,except for Paresh Rawal, the ex-politician dad of Amol, keen towards giving a clean image of his son, who had just begun a political career...A person with typical politician mindset, turning a new leaf towards the end for the sake of his son and trying a bit of unessential comedy..(औरो मतलब औरोबिन्धो??)..
But the feminist inside me strongly says that the title of the movie should have been "Maa", after all its the mother who has taken pains to give life to her child, fighting all odds..:)

Paa is definitely an entertaining and watchable movie and it leaves you with sweet memoirs of the naughty young boy..

4 comments:

saTish said...

Vidya's character..sounds interesting. Cos its more of shedding the clothes nowadays n seldom do the heroines get a solid role to play (fashion, jab we met...can't recollect anything else to be frank).
And yeah, I heard its more of son-mother relationship on screen rather than father-son!! Guess Balki made that up intentionally, for reasons whatsoever. Is this film better than Cheeni Kum? Ignore the fact about a progeria afflicted kid..on an emotional level..?? I'm yet to watch the film, let me see how the experience is :)

Good post again sis...

saTish said...

And yes..how is Raja's score?? ;)

Reshma prathaban said...

The onscreen mom-son relationship stands tall than the father-son relationship...rather very limited scope for he same...Raja as usual rocks but he has very less to prove his mettle here..The movie is even better than cheeni kum....Watch it for sure..I would say its a must watch..

Reshma prathaban said...

Am yet to watch 3 idiots..It is under a lot of hype and am just longing to see it..:)