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“Mere paas MAA hai” se … PAA tak

Continuing with the title above, Amitabh Bachchan has never seemed to impress me, I mean his performances, and not his movies. Right from the “Babu Moshayyyy” to “Anthony Gonsalves” to “Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi…” to “Rishtey mein toh…” to “Vijay Dinanath Chauhan hainnn” to “Sarkar – Sarkar Raaj” , I never frenzied at his performances, however, I have liked some of the movies in terms of content and story telling. Paa is no different. The best part of the movie was that I did not realise that Amitabh was in that movie (the worst part – Abhishek playing the lead role), I was completely bowled over by Auro , and the entire credit goes to R. Balki for conceptualizing it and the make-up artistes who brought it to reality. So talking about Paa , all my praise will go to filmmaking, cinematography, and screenplay. I will excuse myself from talking much about the characters of the movie. Balki, an ad maker, and hence a naturally creative person has done good justice with regard