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‘Baby John Review’: Subpar Hindi Commercial Film

Varun Dhawan starred Atlee's new action film, 'Baby John' is winning hearts and minds of fans all across the country! See the full Review here.

PC Bureau by PC Bureau
25 December 2024
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'Baby John Review': Subpar Hindi Commercial Film

'Baby John Review': Subpar Hindi Commercial Film

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A boy of maybe five or six stands over his dead parents. They’re in a row of bodies on the ground in front of a high-rise, construction workers who died because of low-quality netting. The builder at fault calls the boy over (he’s from the northeast—migrant labour!), gives him 10 rupees and tells him to buy some chocolate. In the next scene, John (Varun Dhawan) crashes the builder’s party, decimates his goons, and sends the man crashing through a window to his death. One of the onlookers is the young boy, who takes a triumphant bite of chocolate.

This Moment is pure Atlee: civic concern, grisly justice, contrived gesture to top it off. My distaste for his style grows with every film. There’s emotional excess but no emotional truth. Scenes are chopped into bite-sized pieces, whisked away before you can process them. The constant overtures of social reform are tedious.

Suffering is cheapened by its quick transition into whistle-worthy moments. A young boy’s parents are dead, but the film only cares that viewers cheer when he eats chocolate gazing at a corpse.

Baby John interval – Remake hai.. but hitting all the right beats so far.. with some new ones. pic.twitter.com/OwGsSMTfEl

— MohitVerse (@comicverseyt) December 25, 2024


Atlee isn’t the director of Baby John, but the film has his imprint. He’s producer ; the director, Kalees , is a former assistant; and it’s a Hindi remake of Atlee’s Tamil film Theri (2016), starring Vijay. John (Varun Dhawan) is a mild-mannered coffee shop owner living with his little girl, Khushi (Zara Zyanna), in Kerala. It’s clear right away he’s trying to stay under the radar, which becomes difficult when his car is used by Khushi’s schoolteacher Tara (Wamiqa Gabbi) to transport an escapee from a trafficking ring to the police station. Someone addresses him there as ‘Satya’. Not long after, men are sent to kill him, and he despatches them with practiced lethality.

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Baby John lasts 164 minutes, too long for a film this straightforward and lacking in smarts. Satya/John and Nana keep taking revenge by turn until it’s time for a final showdown. Dhawan and Suresh aren’t well-matched, and their courtship is as much a time-filler as Shah Rukh Khan and Nayanthara’s was in Atlee’s Jawan (2023). Tara turns out to be some kind of undercover agent, a revelation that has zero bearing on the story. Dhawan is lightly likeable, as he tends to be, and disposable, as he also tends to be.

Despite several capable heads in the stunts department (Anbariv, Sunil Rodrigues, Yannick Ben), the action isn’t where it should be. Dhawan gives a reasonable account of himself—Honey Bunny was a better showcase—but he hasn’t taken to the genre as well as his Student of the Year co-star Sidharth Malhotra. And Kalees doesn’t have Atlee’s skill for selling gimmicks.

How can you have a movie star on a horse on top of a shipping container charging at assassins on bikes and not make it the coolest scene of the year?

Tags: AtleeBaby JohnKaleesVarun DhawanWamiqa Gabbi
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