Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Gypsi Bates Raj Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan) and his beloved wife of 40 years, Pooja (Hema Malini), have given all they have emotionally and monetarily to their five sons, four natural and one adopted (played by Salman Khan). When Raj retires, he has no money set aside and assumes that his children will help him as he has helped them. Instead, his four natural sons resent his request and split up the loving couple with plans to rotate their parents between homes. Raj and Pooja are heartbroken without each other, but have no way to change their circumstances until chance helps them out.This sometimes overly sentimental movie is a sweet love story of a long-married couple. It's also a discussion of respect and what is owed to one's parents. Bachchan is a wonderful actor, as is Malini. Their chemistry was excellent. There are some truly beautiful songs, but little in the way of choreography. Overall, it's film that requires some understanding of Indian culture to appreciate, but if one does, it makes for good viewing.

superindrajit Baghban(2003) is a film that was supposed to be filmed and released a lot earlier than 2003 as director Ravi Chopra had the script ready. However, Chopra decided to take time and write another script. This script took years to finish and the film was finally planned and completed by early 2003. To Chopra's surprise, Baghban succeeded critically and commercially.Baghban's story is actually quite realistic because it successfully shows a common life of children who fail to respect and support their parents. These children forget that their parents are the ones who worked hard to raise them, these children insult their parents, and these children don't understand the value of their parents. This is something that is seen in reality. In reality, there are many people who think that their old parents are a burden, these people fail to recognize the importance in their parents. The concept is brilliant and the narrative style is wonderful. Not once does the film succumb to mediocrity despite some melodramatic moments. Although the film does drag in a few parts due to the melodrama, it still picks up because of some nice light and comic moments which aren't forced.Direction by Ravi Chopra is fantastic, he handles many scenes well despite a few clichés. Most of the first half is well handled and the greedy sons are well depicted. All the Amitabh-Hema scenes are a delight to watch as it's not a forced love story. All of the son's greed is well shown but it gets overdone in the 2nd half. The separation of Bachchan and Malini is well shown. The on goings do slow the film down because of several crying scenes. However, the Paresh Rawal scenes help lift the movie. The ending is brilliant, Amitabh's speech is well delivered and the movie ends on a good note.Amitabh Bachchan does a fantastic job as the troubled father, his pain is well expressed through his eyes. As always, his expressions are wonderful. This is one role that no one could've done better than Amitabh. Paresh Rawal does a brilliant job, he lifts the movie after some boring melodrama. Salman Khan's act pales in front of Amitabh but he does a decent job especially in climax. Hema Malini is a delight to watch and her pairing with Bachchan is amazing, the last time they were paired together was in Nastik(1983) which didn't do good at the box office. Aman Varma, Sameer Soni and the other actors who play the sons are okay, the daughter in laws don't have much to do but irritate with their overacting. Raima Sen as the granddaughter does a decent job as the spoiled girl and the child actor playing the grandson does a decent job.Music is extraordinary, the songs sung by Amitabh which include Main Yahan Tu Wahan, Holi Khele Raghuveera, and Chali song are awesome. The Chali song is tuneful and fits well with the film while the other songs also fit well in the film.On the whole, Baghban is a well executed family drama which works from all aspects. The film succeeds because of a tight script, amazing performances, and melodious songs.

rightwingisevil OMG, what a terrible movie! I could never imagine the great actor would have signed up to play this father/husband/grand father/retiree role, because the screenplay is so bad, so phony and the director of this movie, in my opinion, should be banned from directing any movie from 2003. Yes, that's how bad this movie is.I just don't know how could this poor screenplay would be made into movie. From the very beginning, the loving husband and loving wife were so poorly acted and performed as a couple. All the scenes from the very beginning were just so overdone and so pretentious. All the characters, old or young, male or female, were just thoroughly ruined by this pathetic screenplay and the director. This is the first Bollywood movie that has made our watching a complete disgusting experience. It's more like a typical Korean TV drama, everybody had to murmur to herself or himself, with exaggerated gestures, expressions.Amitabh Bachchan is one of the greatest Hindi actors, maybe the best of the bests, a Hindi Clark Gable + Gary Cooper + Marlon Brando, but...

Lakshmi Yes the film was an aesthetic success. I just loved the wonderful chemistry between Hemaji and Amitji. Hemaji looked better than any of her previous films I have seen. It is not just the beauty. It is that she lived that life for the span of this shooting, I felt. If everything is the same but without Hemaji in the film, I'm not sure of the product.I wondering if the creators gave credit to the Telugu film makers anywhere in the credits, because I have not seen it. If they did not, FYI, this is lifted from a Telugu movie; completely, including the phone (there was a cute song -- by then baby Sridevi, that we all Telugu people adored); I wish the producers and director acknowledged the fact that this is remake of NTR and Anjali Devi film, Badi Pantulu (1972). Even the role played by Salman is not a new idea.This is like the lifting Khilona, Kora Kagaj or many others in the past, as well. I thought, I just mention that.However, I must tell you, the Hindi remake is made in a grandiose scale. Awesome!