Baby (2015) | Hindi Movie Critic Review By Bollywood

BABY is a latest terrorism thriller of Neeraj Pandey, starring Akshay Kumar as a deadly cool officer of the department leads the mission and cracks down each and every gangster one by one, sometimes even achieves the impossible target with no planning or preparation. It seems like so far away from the reality. Catching and hunting such dangerous criminals is just a piece of cake in the movie and I just wish it would be same in the real world too. Although Akshay Kumar gave his best. In the whole movie there’s not a single dull moment when he is on the screen. Little humor, super actions and off course his looks, everything seems a pack of all.

Story of the movie continues when Ajay discovers that the country and the nation is in biggest threat from the terrorists and their plan is to kill as many people and to strike the terror in the hearts of the nation. Makers of Bollywood thrillers seems like so very obsessed with counter terrorism in which only Muslims are the terrorists. Many of the plot details are from real people and real incidents. But, in constructing its worldview about good and bad guys, it goes completely overboard with overt alarmism and finger-pointing that’s completely not acceptable in many countries. In a scene Ajay Singh Rajput (Akshay Kumar) tells an ISI agent Taufeeq (Mujeeb Khan) how he defended a Muslim family during the Gujarat riots and why he puts 'Indian' in the Religion bracket in all forms that he fills. Somehow this sets the tone for the film that terrorists don't have a religion and no particular community ought to be associated with terrorism but on the other hand Baby’s principle villain name is Mulana Hafiz Saeed, who, sitting across the Indian border, planning to make India and their people suffer.

Baby has fine quality actors like Kay Kay Menon, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa and Sushant Singh in roles that are supposed to be authentic representations of the actual world. Baby is of 2 hours and 40 minutes long, seems like too long to entertain with a lot of flaws but still not a totally bad movie to watch.