This one is going to get a thorough bashing. There are
more questions for Sajid Khan about this movie than there are women in the
first song of this movie. For someone who has been around for quite a few
years, seen the transition of Bollywood to the level that it has reached today,
Sajid Khan turns out to be a damp rag. The year is not over yet but
nevertheless, Heyy Babyy will make it to the 5 worst movies this year.
First of all, remake of 3 men and a baby? What’s
next? Baby’s day out? Dunston checks in? There are tons of movies to make remakes
out of but why this?
If you remember Baby’s day out, then you will also
recollect that not only was the baby cute and adorable but the baby chuckled,
giggled and cried when the scene was such and it looked very natural. Unlike
the baby here who doesn’t even look like she is just a few months old. Yeah she’s
cute but the laughing and smiling just seems fake. So does all the hamming by
Ritesh Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan and Akshay Kumar. The scenes are so poorly
directed that when they laugh, nobody else is laughing, when they are serious,
everyone is yawning and when they cry, everyone is leaving the theatres. Every
scene seems like a ludicrous and casual attempt to make the ignorant and first
time movie goer laugh. The baby pooping, shitting, pissing and crying scenes
are just plain BAD. Slapstick comedy made in haste.
What are all those women doing in the opening song
anyway? Yes they’re hot but there are so many of them that you cannot really
identify each one soon enough. Then someone just abandons the baby on their
doorstep, they just decide to take care of it, they keep pondering over who the
father is when DNA tests are available these days, then they name the baby ‘Angel’
(what kind of a name is that?) and then they abandon the baby and then a
miracle and what all nonsense……. Who would abandon a child outside a church
when it is raining? Is that the time to have beer at a bar? Who does that? This
and many other extreme sequences are just frustratingly dumb.
The movie lacks logic, plot, sense of humour and
creativity. Couple of songs like *Jaane
bhi de, Mast Kalandar* are good but the rest of them just drag the movie a
little longer than half of what it should’ve been. Vidya Balan looks gorgeous
as always but is totally wasted in this lost cause. Boman Irani has made his
biggest mistake by selecting this movie and we do understand sentiments and
values of friendship but ShahRukh Khan!? What were you thinking? For half
a song he appears in one of his biggest mistakes in recent times. Half way
through the song we see the boys taking SRK into confidence and then as
randomly as most things happen in the movie, it moves on to another scene altogether
and we never see SRK again! Just as randomly, the flashback of Akshay Kumar and
Vidya Balan is so extensive that we forget that there is a baby in this movie
completely!
Sajid Khan needs to go back to *Ekke Pe Ekka *because that is the only thing he did decently and the
rest of them need to learn for the last time from this experience. Read the
script, look for a ‘plot’, think if you can watch such a movie in the theatre.
Akshay Kumar is such a fine actor when in good roles
but that seems to be his problem. Good roles. He needs to be more selective and
although comedy is his latest success area, we hope to see better of him.
Perhaps we should pray for him with Bhool Bhulaiyaa coming up – ‘Hare Raam hare Raam hare Krishna hare Raam’………
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3.10 on a scale of 1-10.
