A love story that celebrates fatherhood

Boy meets woman, they fall in love, get married and go the household manner. Haven’t all of us seen comparable plots in umpteen motion pictures? What makes Baba, Child O… totally different right here is that it tells the story of a single father who chooses to dwell life on his personal phrases. Over time, there have been some actually nice motion pictures which have showcased the challenges and struggles of a single mom. However this movie celebrates fatherhood by following the on a regular basis struggles of a person making an attempt to navigate issues of his love life, household and profession to the most effective of his skills.

Directed by Aritra Mukherjee, the movie offers with the advanced topic of surrogacy with out getting too preachy. However that is solely a small a part of the movie. On the finish of the day, Baba, Child O… is the story of a person who first turns into a father after which meets the ‘O’ or the opposite necessary individual in his life.

The movie sees Jisshu U Sengupta as Megh Roddur, an engineer and a father to twins, and debutante Solanki Roy aka Brishti, who’s the proprietor of a youngsters’ toy store. After profitable help from his mother and father, a 40-something bachelor Megh decides to have infants by surrogacy. However life takes a U-turn after he meets Brishti at a toy store. In terms of youngsters, Megh and Brishti are poles aside. Whereas Megh adores kids, Brishti hates them.

Efficiency sensible, Jisshu is pure as typical and delivers his half convincingly. Solanki is nice, however how we want she added slightly extra spunk to her character. The duo’s chemistry within the movie is certainly not one among its speaking factors. As an alternative, peripheral characters equivalent to Bidipta Chakraborty as Brishti’s mom, Reshmi Sen and Rajat Ganguly as Megh’s mother and father Ramen and Molina Chattopadhyay and Mainak Banerjee as Megh’s greatest pal, Raja, genuinely handle to the touch the audiences’ hearts. The display screen comes alive with Rajat and Mainak’s comedian timing. The scenes, the place Ramen imagines Raja coming into the home as Megh’s life associate or when Raja seeks inspiration from ’90s Bollywood motion pictures and tries to evaluate the way forward for Megh and Brishti’s love story with, “Palat, palat…” is pleasant. Gourab Chatterjee does justice to his position as Shouvik, Brishti’s fiancé. Even the infants within the movie look cute.

The music of the movie by Chamok Hasan is value a point out. The music, Ei mayabi chander raate, is just not solely catchy, however captures the emotional state of the protagonist fairly effectively. As for the drawbacks, the movie’s tempo and the considerably predictable storyline allow us to down a bit. The movie drags at occasions and leaves scope for higher enhancing. The dialogues lack punch.

Little doubt surrogacy, as a topic, is topical. Not many are nonetheless conscious of the nuances, additionally the way in which society seems at it. However its therapy appears to be a bit lack-lustre. We anticipated way more from the director who made his debut with an entertainer like Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti.

Nonetheless, these in search of a possibility to catch a movie in a theatre after a very long time can provide it a shot.