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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
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Cast: Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Vidya Balan
Direction: Sajid Khan
Actor-funnyman Sajid Khan turns director with this week's Heyy Babyy, a film centred around three promiscuous friends in Sydney who lead the kind of decadent lifestyle that would put even Casanova to shame.
They'll sleep with anything in a skirt and wake up the next morning not remembering even the name of the lady lying naked beside them.
One morning they land up with a different kind of house-guest, a little baby girl who's been left at their doorstep with an anonymous note saying this child belongs to one of them and they ought to take care of her.
The baby, of course, turns out to be quite the handful, needing constant attention from the boys.
Frustrated at first, the boys eventually fall in love with the little one, and before long she becomes the apple of their eye, the focus of their undivided affection.
But every Hindi film needs conflict for the story to progress, and in this film, conflict shows up in the form of the baby's real parent who snatches her out of the hands of our three heroes and takes her back home where she rightly belongs. Our heroes are heartbroken, they want their baby back.
It's a pity that in his role as a filmmaker, Sajid Khan falls into the same trap that he used to so hilariously expose when he was discussing old Hindi films on television.
Heyy Babyy tries to pack in too many things all at once, and Sajid Khan doesn't know just when to end the joke.
Which is perhaps what explains the string of shit and piss and fart jokes that the first forty minutes of the film are filled with. Once you've come to terms with the fact that this is pavement humour of the very crudest kind, then you might actually find yourself laughing at some of the gags.
Like that one involving a dirty diaper which comes flying across the room towards two of our protagonists.
My only point of argument here is that this is clearly a film they're aiming at young kids and family audiences. In which case, the repeated sex jokes and gay jokes are entirely inappropriate.
Like that scene in the film's first half when Akshay Kumar goes to the supermarket to buy baby food and ends up using all these double-meaning words and gestures to make his point - I'm not sure how many parents will be comfortable watching such things with their kids.
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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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