Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap marks the comeback of the Amitabh Bachchan…and he is angry!
He plays a retired hitman settled in Paris, who comes back to India to do ‘one last job’.
Amitabh exudes the style and attitude of a flamboyant man, young at heart. The film is a fast paced action thriller which showcases him in a never seen before stylized avatar with action and masala of a true Bollywood film... Read more
Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap marks the comeback of the Amitabh Bachchan…and he is angry!
He plays a retired hitman settled in Paris, who comes back to India to do ‘one last job’.
Amitabh exudes the style and attitude of a flamboyant man, young at heart. The film is a fast paced action thriller which showcases him in a never seen before stylized avatar with action and masala of a true Bollywood film with the “Original Action Hero”!
Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap is a feast for Amitabh Bachchan buffs. The film ends with a disclaimer saying it’s a tribute to the phenomenon and that says it all. For years, we have seen him as this larger-than-life superhero who turns any situation around, braves the heaviest of odds, kills the baddies and gets the girl in the end. There is all this and more in the present film. Hell, there is also a medley of hit Bachchan numbers sung by the star himself. What more does one want?
Plot
Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap is an action film about an old man, Viju (Amitabh Bachchan), who comes to the city on a mission to protect his estranged son, Karan Malhotra (Sonu Sood). Karan is an upright and honest police officer because of which the underworld wants to bump him off.
Kabir (Prakash Raj) runs an underworld empire and is very disturbed when ACP Karan Malhotra pours water on his plans and vows to eliminate crime. Kabir hires a hitman to bump off Karan. At first, the audience gets the feeling that Viju is the hitman but it soon emerges that Viju is actually the father of Karan and has come there to protect him. Karan is in love with Tanya (Sonal Chauhan) but she is not reciprocating his advances. Viju does something which makes Tanya express her feelings to Karan and they soon start romancing.
Meanwhile, the underworld is carrying on with its nefarious activities so that there are face-offs between them and the police. Viju wins the confidence of Kabir and joins his gang with a view to tracking every move of Kabir insofar as it concerns Karan. On his part, Karan is not even aware that it is his father who has been following him everywhere. Viju does meet with his estranged wife (Hema Malini) who lives with Karan.
Anyway, one day, Teda (Suba Raju), one of the trusted lieutenants of Kabir, fires bullets into Karan and injures him so grievously that he is assumed to be dead or dying. Teda comes to his boss, Kabir’s hideout and gives him the good news of Karan’s death. Viju, who had gone to avert the tragedy on hearing about Teda’s plan, had missed his son by a few seconds. He was, however, in time to rush Karan to hospital where he is ultimately saved.
After completing the formalities in hospital, Viju comes to Kabir and plays such a mind game that victory seems to be his (Viju’s). But is Viju actually able to avenge the wrong done to his son? What happens to Kabir and his cronies? Does Viju reveal who he is, to Karan. The climax answers these questions.
Performances
Bachchan plays the angry old man with aplomb. In fact, one is advised not to call him old because he might just break your neck for that. He hasn’t lost his swagger, his dead pan dialogue delivery and most important, his baritone. We even get to see the famous ‘Bachchan run’. He gets the best lines and feeds them to you with panache. Any other actor would have made the situations absurd and cheesy but its Bachchan’s class that elevates the absurd to the sublime. The other thing is that he knows that in a way he is paying homage to his own larger-than-life image and does it with tongue firmly in cheek.
Sonu Sood, obviously cast because of his uncanny resemblance to the young Amitabh, is a solid actor but here, even playing a tough cop, is made to sigh and sob too much. Clearly there was only room for one alpha male in this corral. Prakash Raj is the primary baddie, while the ever-amusing Makarand Deshpande finds himself a lovely existential moment at the film's climax. There are a couple of young girls, but this film isn't about the young as much as it is about the timeless: Raveena Tandon still looks like a million bucks and is quite adorable as a starry-eyed Bachchanista, and the immaculate Hema Malini even makes this film's name sound beautiful.
Overall, Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap, as a friend of mine usually describes super cool stuff, is 'Legendary of the awesomeness.'
