Baabarr (2009)

For those still not tired of films about gun-toting goons, tobacco-chewing gangsters, power-hungry politicians, humourless encounter specialists and, most importantly, corrupt cops, here’s another addition to the genre – Baabarr.

The film begins as the journey of a young boy into the crime-infested world of a small town in Uttar Pradesh but soon becomes a gore-fest as the dead bodies pile up faster than you can keep the count. Director Ashuu Trikha attempts to jolt a viewer repeatedly with the blood-curdling depiction of violence, but that’s not what necessarily makes a good crime thriller.

When a boy commits his first murder at the age of 12, you can very well imagine what he will grow up to be – an extortionist and a killer. Even before his teenage Baabarr’s life takes a definitive direction into the world of crime, where rival gangsters gun for each other, corrupt cops are hand in glove with criminals whom politicians use for their own mileage.

As the strapping young man Baabarr (newcomer Soham Shah (1)) spreads his reign of crime and terror, the state shakes up from slumber and ropes in a stern-faced, no-nonsense encounter specialist (Mithun Chakraborty) to capture the most wanted Baabarr, dead or alive.

Thereon, the movie becomes a cat-and-mouse game between Baabarr and the cops who are forever on his tail without being able to snare him. The director throws in a few twists and turns in the later reels of the second half to apparently keep the audience from leaving the hall before the end credits.

Soham Shah is raw and rusty at places but shows a few sparkles of acting here and there. In comparison Sushant Singh is eye-grabbing as his seething rival Tabrez. Mithun is good but Om Puri is the real scene stealer as the corrupt cop. Urvashi Sharma, the love interest of the titular protagonist, has a small role but she manages well.

Barring a few sequences (when Baabarr hunts down his rival Tabrez or when the encounter specialist closes in on his prey) the movie largely remains a collage of been-there-seen-that sequences cobbled together to give the impression of a gritty crime thriller, which evidently it isn’t. The script is riddled with dialogues that have by now become the stereotypes of any cops and gangsters movie.

Watch ‘Baabarr’ at your own risk.

TaNha

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