Baby John Review: Remaking a film whose Hindi dub is available on YouTube is an act of courage, and then making a bad remake of it is an act of courage. Perhaps it can be called ‘Baby John’, this film is a remake of the 2016 Tamil film ‘Theri’ and it stands nowhere in front of ‘Theri’. Varun looks like a baby in this, not John.
Varun Dhawan has a dialogue in the film – ‘Many people like me may have come but I have come for the first time.’ This is not at all the case, Thalapit Vijay has appeared in this role before and has created a ruckus. But here 2 hours 40 minutes only create chaos in the mind of the viewer.
Story
There is no spoiler in the story of this film because the original film is on YouTube and the complete story is written on Wikipedia. Varun Dhawan is DCP, he kills the son of a big influential person because he has raped and murdered a girl. Then that person i.e. Jackie Shroff kills Varun’s wife and mother and he feels that Varun and his daughter were also killed. But then Varun leaves the police job and lives a normal life somewhere else with his daughter. But that person returns again and what happens next, this is the story of this film. This story may seem appropriate in 2016, but as of today it seems old and stale.
How is the movie?
Comparison of this film with the original is inevitable. It was said that this is an adaptation and not a remake, but many scenes are exact copies of the original. The action of the film seems old, now the parameters of violent films have changed. Recently, Malayalam film Marco has been released in which violence has been shown at a different level. The action also seems clichéd, the action in the scenes between Salman and Varun seems fake.
Varun stands nowhere in comparison to Vijay. While watching every scene, the scene from the original film comes to your mind and even if the original is not there, this film still does not captivate you. At some places it seems quite childish and makes you laugh, the bad songs coming in between further irritate the already irritated audience, overall after watching this film you feel that it would be better to watch the original again. .
acting
Varun Dhawan could not do justice to this character, Varun is a good actor and hardworking. His work in the previous web series Citadel Honey Bunny was good. But there were also Raj and DK who made him work. Here the director could not mold his character. He seems to be a mix of Singham, Simmba and Suryavanshi, and does not seem like his own character. He knew that he would be compared to Vijay and he looked quite pale in comparison to Vijay.
Vamika Gabbi’s dialogue delivery itself seems strange, she is unable to impress you from anywhere. Keerthy Suresh is just fine, Jackie Shroff is solid as the villain. Zara Zyanna’s work as Varun’s daughter is very good and this baby is the real baby of this film.
direction
The original was directed by Atlee himself and here the command was given to Kalis and Kalis could not create any magic. He claimed that he will present Varun in such an avatar which is an amazing action avatar and which the audience will not be able to forget. But now it seems that both the audience and Varun would like to forget this character. This film has been written by three writers Atlee, Kalis and Sumit Arora, it is not understood that when the film was written, what did these three people write, if they had written more they would have written something good.
music
Thaman S’s music makes this bad film worse. Extremely bad songs test the patience of the audience. Overall this film is disappointing, if you want then watch its original version in Hindi on YouTube and save money.
