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Review: Heyy Babyy gross comedy, over-the-top drama
Published on Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 23:31, Updated on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 01:00 in Entertainment section
Tags: Bollywood, Heyy Babyy , Cast
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I didn't know Sajid Khan was one for melodrama, he's always made jokes about actors who ham, which is why I was surprised to find once again, that he's guilty of committing the same crime in his own film.
Heyy Babyy goes from gross comedy to over-the-top drama and that's the film's biggest failing. I can understand Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan and Ritesh Deshmukh are upset that the baby's been taken away by her real mother, but their obsession over the baby comes off as both contrived and melodramatic. It all looks very fake.
The final straw comes in the form of Vidya Balan who plays the baby's real mum as a sort of Cruella de Ville character.
Vidya is cold and distant and doesn't even pretend to care for the baby. What's worse, the director tugs at your heart strings with scenes that make you cringe.
Like that blatantly manipulative one in which they show the baby being poked by a syringe and then pumped to life in the hospital. Or even the one in which one character's shown doing an impromptu namaaz to pray for the baby's life. Sajid, what were you thinking?
Armed with a better script, there's no doubt Sajid Khan might have delivered a better film. I say that because it's clear he knows technique and he can direct his actors. The film is funny in parts, how you wish the writing was sharper.
There's a line in the film which explains how the baby's changed our heroes' lives. Ritesh says, "We were once hot dudes, but aaj kal hum doodh ko hot karte hain." Honestly you don't expect such corny lines even in a class seven school play.
Of the actors, Fardeen Khan is embarrassingly incompetent, he hams so hard, you want to send him back to acting school. Ritesh Deshmukh pulls many faces and raises a few laughs, but Vidya Balan sticks out like a sore thumb.
Her wardrobe, her make-up, her hair - if I didn't know better I'd assume her staff had conspired against her for not paying their salaries on time.
Of the lot, it's Akshay Kumar who holds together the film with his perfect comic timing, he is easily the film's biggest strength.
In the end, Heyy Babyy is like those 80s-style family entertainers, there's a little bit of comedy, a little bit of romance and heaps of emotional drama.
You know exactly where the story's going, but you go along for the ride anyway. I'm going to go with two out of five for Sajid Khan's Heyy Babyy, it's not a bad film but you certainly expected better.
Meanwhile my heart goes out to that little baby, probably scarred for life from hearing all those dirty jokes being cracked around her.
Rating: 2/5
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The movie lost its plot in the middle. I still do not understand what Mr.Ritesh Deshmukh is doing. This guy
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By the ads that were aired on television it was quite clear that movie would be a nonsense comedy. It
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The movie is a mixture of poor jokes and poor emotions. Although, we can understand poor jokes coming from Sajid
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I had very lillte expectation from the movie having known that Sajid khan was the director.
Two reasons for me to
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I only hoped Sajid Khan could have made this movie as clean and as entertaining as "Thoovalsparsham". Sajid's langotiya yaar
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