Paa Movie Details :
Paa is a 2009 Indian Bollywood comedy-drama Movie directer is R. Balakrishna starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Vidya Balan in the Main Role.The film is inspired by the 1996 Hollywood film Jack and is based on the relationship of a boy with a rare genetic condition known as progeria and his parents. Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, in real life, are father and son respectively, but in Paa, they played opposite roles. The film was released worldwide on 4 Dec 2009. Veteran composer Ilaiyaraaja scored the music.
The film was critically acclaimed in India and fared well at the box office. Despite a warm reception from Indian film critics, the film received mixed reviews from overseas film critics, according to the websites Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Amitabh Bachchan received his third National Film Award for Best Actor at the 57th National Film Awards for his performance and his fifth Filmfare Best Actor Award and Vidya Balan got her first Filmfare Best Actress Award.
- Directer : R. Balki
- Producer : Amitabh Bachchan,Abhishek Bachchan,Sunil Manchanda,Mahesh Ramanathan
- Writter : R. Balki
- Starring : Amitabh Bachchan,Abhishek Bachchan,Vidya Balan,Paresh Rawal,Arundhati Nag
- Music : Ilaiyaraaja
- Cinematography : P. C. Sriram
- Editer : Anil Naidu
- Casting : Richa Kapur Thakkar
- Production Design : Sunil Babu
- Art Direction : Kishen Dagar,Kiran Khanna,Vaishnavi Reddy
- Makeup Department : Robin Myriah Hatcher,Natasha Nischol,Dominie Till,Christien Tinsley,Hiro Yada
- Production Management : Sachin Agarwal,K.S. Ravindran,Vivek Saxena
- Assistant Director : Abhishek Dogra,Ranjit Govind,Suganndha Mehrotra,Jagan Shakti
- Art Department : Madhura Gokarn,Ashwini Kale,Kiran Khanna,Jerad Marantz
- Sound Department : Hitendra Ghosh,Tapas Nayak,Rhitwik Raj Pathak,Sreejesh
- Special Effects : Allison Oliver,Prasad Patel
- Visual Effects : Yatin Bhave,Gaurav Bose,Satyendra Chaturvedi
- Production company : MAD Entertainment Ltd,Amitabh Bachchan Corporation,Reliance Big Pictures
- Distributer : Reliance Big Pictures
- Genres : Comedy,Drama
- Release date : 4 December 2009
- Running time : 133 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Paa Movie Wacth Trailer :
Star Cast of The Film :
- Amitabh Bachchan as a Auro
- Abhishek Bachchan as a Amol Arte
- Vidya Balan as a Dr. Vidya
- Paresh Rawal as a Mr. Arte
- Arundathi Nag as a Vidya’s mother
- Saurabh Agarwal
- Shikha Arora as a Woman in Park
- Rupali Arte
- Jaya Bachchan as a Narrator (as Jaya Bhaduri)
- Divya Bhatia
- Karan Bhiwandiker
- Sanjay Chauhan
- Nimmit Daiya as a Abhishek
- Ramakant Dayma as a Amol’s Secretary (as Ramakant Dayama)
- Dhruvin Doshi
- Milind Doshi
- Gagandeep
- Tusshar Jain as a Reporter Angry with Amol
- Alpa Joshi
- Rajiv Kachroo
- Saagar Kale as a (as Sagar Kale)
- Aalekh Kapoor as a Raj
- Alekh Kapoor
- Kapil Kapoor as a Dasgupta
- Pratik Katare as a Vishnu
- Rajiv Khanna
- Swini Khara as a Auro’s classmate
- Sunny Krishna
- Sharda Kumar
- Pawan Mahendru
- Vaibhav Mathur as a Rajubhai
- Ram Menon
- Krishna Narayan
- Sharat Nyampalli
- Gopal Pandit
- Sachin Parikh
- Nand Kishore Phadke
- Priyam Pinbalkar
- Jagdish Rajpurohit as a Family Doctor
- Taruni Sachdev as a Schoolgirl Who Laughs at Auro (as Taruni Sachdeva)
- Kiran Shah as a 6 Yr Old Auro
- Satyajit Sharma as a Jaikirt
- Zaver Shroff
- Chandrakant Taneja
- Yogesh Tripathi
- Olivier Lafont as a Sagar
Story of The Film :
Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent and witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria-like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan) who is a gynecologist. Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan) is young, progressive and a full-of-ideals politician. He is out to prove to the world that ‘politics’ is not a bad word. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol’s son.
Production :
Casting :
The film had Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of a child who is suffering from Progeria, a genetic disorder which leads to quick acceleration of ageing process in children. Abhishek Bachchan, Amitabh’s real-life son, played the role of his father.
Vidya Balan was the only choice for the mother’s role. Arundathi Nag, the wife of late Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag was asked to play the role of Vidya’s mother (Bachchan’s maternal grandmother).[3]
Film Shooting :
Most of the parts were shot in Lucknow and some parts of the film were shot in UK and Malaysia. A small portion of the filming was done at Cambridge. The clock of Corpus Christi College and courtyard of St. John’s College have been shown in a song sequence. The film was also shot in Taiping, Malaysia. The King Edward VII school was actually one of the typical Malaysian schools.
One of the notable things in the movie was Amitabh’s prosthetic make up. It was done by Hollywood’s Christien Tinsley (famous for his work in The Passion of the Christ, Catwoman and other films) and Dominie Till of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy fame.
There was a plan to make a sequel named Maa, but Balki stopped it. In the words of Balki, “My main aim was not to make a film on progeria. My main motive behind making Paa was to reverse the roles of Amitabh and Abhishek. I decided to do something like this because once I was with both of them and I saw Abhishek behaving in a very matured manner and Amitabh, behaving as a kid. It was then that this idea struck me.”
Paa was Abhishek Bachchan’s first venture into producing films for his family company AB Corp. Ltd. Abhishek not only was one of the lead actors in Paa, but was the main hands-on producer in charge of the film’s budget, marketing, and the entire production of the film. It took hours for Amitabh Bachchan to put on his makeup and to take it off.
Paa Movie Songs / Music :
The soundtrack (songs and the background score) was scored by veteran composer Ilaiyaraaja.The lyrics were penned by Swanand Kirkire. “Halke Se Bole” is based on the Tamil song “Putham Pudhu Kaalai” from his 1980 film Alaigal Oivathillai. “Gumm Summ Gumm” is based on the Malayalam song “Thumbi Vaa” which Ilaiyaraaja had composed for the 1982 Malayalam film Olangal. The song “Mere Paa” is based on his Tamil song “Kaatru Vizhi”, from Balu Mahendra’s film Adhu Oru Kana Kaalam. The song has an eclectic mix of Irish and Tamil Folk music, both seamlessly fused to create a soothing melody that appears as a leitmotif, in the film’s theme music.
- “Mudhi Mudhi Ittefaq Se” – Shilpa Rao
- “Gumm Summ Gumm” – Bhavatharini, Shravan
- “Udhi Udhi Ittefaq Se” – Shilpa Rao
- “Hichki Hichki” – Sunidhi Chauhan
- “Gali Mudhi Ittefaq Se” – Shaan
- “Halke Se Bole” – Chorus
- “Mere Paa” – Amitabh Bachchan
- “Paa Theme (Remix)” – Instrumental
Full Video Song :
- Singer – Shilpa Rao
- Lyricist – Swanand Kirkire
- Music Director – Ilaiyaraja
- Music On – T-Series
Full Video Song :
- Singer – Sunidhi Chauhan
- Lyricist – Swanand Kirkire
- Music Director – Ilaiyaraja
- Music On – T-Series
Paa Movie Review :
This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.2 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 11,267.
Paa…a great movie…
I have seen it yesterday….loved it…story is simple and subtle, the characters are really very good,Big B…he has shown his one more form of acting, no one could compete him on this…. He enacted the role of a 13 year old boy with so sincerity , that in Auro you will never be able to see that its him who is enacting this character…. Auro is a gem….
Vidya Balan as a unwed mother is good to see…she has proved her mettle once again after very long, thats after Parineeta…. she looked beautiful in sari’s….
Abhishek Bachan has enacted the role of a Young Indian Politicain sincerely…if all India Politicians, become like him, we wont have any more corruption in India…
Paresh Rawal is good in a brief role and Bum is exceptional…
Technically, the movie is very well directed and the dialouges are very good… R Balki is a very good director and Paa is another feather in his Cap after Cheeni Kum….
Music by the maestro Ilaiyaraja is very good and soft on ears, Paa Theme is the best…
Go for it with your Family… This is for all ages from 6 to 60…
Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4 star out of 5 Star.
Paa Movie Box Office Collection :
INDIA
| Schedule | Amount (Lakhs/Crores) |
|---|---|
| First Day | 2 Crores 15 Lakhs |
| First Weekend | 10 Crores 90 Lakhs |
| End of Week | 16 Crores 00 Lakhs |
| Box office Nett | 30 Crores 49 Lakhs |
| Box office Gross | 39 Crores 09 Lakhs |
| Overseas Gross | 6 Crores 06 Lakhs |
| Worldwide collections Gross | 45 Crores 15 Lakhs |
| Budget | 21 Crores 00 Lakhs |
| Box Office Verdict | SEMI HIT |
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