Paa a movie depicting the rare father-son-son-father relation is simply superb. R.Balki is great.His stories are not the ones which cine goers have been watching.Kudos to him!He tries out something different something fresh.His last outing Cheeni Kum depicting about a 64 year old man loving a 34 year old woman.Similarly Paa also has a very rare story.Which Bollywood has never experimented.Paa depicts on the disease Progeria.Paa has something else too-it has Amitabh Bachchan never like before. Paa's only drawback is its screenplay.The political campaigns of Abhishek Bachchan is purely wasted. The music is pleasant. Performance wise-Amitabh Bachchan deserves no amount of praises for his acting as Auro.He is incredible.No wonder he won the National Award for Best Actor For Paa. Abhishek Bachchan is superb.Vidya is excellent.Arunhdati Nag is amazing.Paresh Rawal is funny in a brief role.Overall,watch Paa for only one reason for Amitabh Bachchan

There is nothing in this movie which can be enjoyed or admired. The reason i'm going with 2 stars for this movie is only for Amitabh Bachchan's role. I have to be really honest about the movie when it comes to the script. Its totally a big disappointment. Guess what, Vidya Bhalan is a Doctor in this movie and she does an intercourse with Abisheik Bachchan without any security. Where she does her doctorate in this movie without knowing the basis which results to birth of Amitabh. If Amitabh hasn't got any role for this movie then its an absolute flop. No story, No great performance, just waste of time. Don't even recommend your enemies to watch this movie by the way, time is very precious, don't waste it...

After strong recommendations, reviews and mass approvals for this movie, I was slightly disappointed after watching it. No doubt Amitabh Bachhan's (AB) performance was brilliant - largely attributed to his make up and the lisp to talk like a 12 year old. What was disappointing was that the movie lacked emotion. The movie was staged around a 12 year old boy suffering from this rare disease - Progeria, but it failed to give it's central theme more depth and understanding of the character. The boy's life is shown to be perfectly normal, school life is superb with a lot of friends and no social stigma whatsoever. Traditionally you will see this flaw in some other Balki directed movies as well - "Cheeni Kum" wherein you have this extremely happy cancer suffering girl "Sexy". The whole personification of some of his characters lack reality and seem to be overtly precocious. By the end it seemed just like any other Bollywood flick with the only difference being a child born with Progeria.Maybe I was benchmarking the movie to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and in comparison the movie definitely failed. Also, in comparison to the movie "Taare Zameen Pe" which was staged around the central theme of Dyslexia where the character was an 8 year old boy, Paa was not a comparison. While it was a novel idea and a great performance by AB, I felt the movie could have been so much better for the 2.5 hours time that it ran for. Poor dialogues and average music did not make things any better. The great thing was the movie did not waste its time on showing the early romance between Vidya Balan and Abhishek Bachaan, which ideally should have given more time to focus on the central character- 12 year old boy. It should have focused more on challenges faced by the boy, his emotions, his understanding of the disease and the world as seen from his vision.In all, the movie lacks to integrate and have a unified central theme. The only take away from the movie is the brilliant make up done for AB and his performance which truly has no parallel. For only that, I recommend you make time for it and watch.

I went 2 Paa really not knowing what 2 expect. There was a very huge aura created around the character of Auro (Amitabh). I feel the role for Amitabh was a trifle undermined as Auro cud have been portrayed by any above average actors. However the personality of Auro is so great that it dwarfs others, although each 1 of em did a fabulous job to the hilt. If only had Amitabh shown a slight glimpse of his original face as well as his baritone voice it wud have been icing on the cake, but the director had other idea though. By saying this I don't wanna 2 take anything away from it at all. All said & done I reckon this is 1 of the better commercial movies since Deewar & Sholay (1975)