Baghban 2003 123movies

Watch: बागबान 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Raj Malhotra and wife Pooja have four sons. The sons have settled down professionally and are quite independent. However, when Raj Malhotra retires, none of his children want to be burdened with the responsibility of taking care of their parents. Strangely, it is the adopted son who proves to be the most kind hearted of them all. Salman’s girlfriend eventually marries him. The question is, will Raj and Pooja’s sons learn the folly of their ways and turn over a new leaf?.
Plot: After dedicating their whole life in upbringing their children, elderly couple Raj Malhotra and Pooja gets homeless. Instead of caring, their children treat them as a burden.
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Mixed feelings: sometimes moving, sometimes overdone
Baghban is generally good, thought-provoking and moving, but it’s never outstanding. This is the story of Raj and Pooja (Bachchan and Malini) who are married for over 40 years and have four sons living in India and one adopted son living abroad. The first half portrays the love of the entire family and particularly the longstanding love of the elderly parents. But then, when Raj retires and asks their children to take care of him and his wife, they get a shocking reply. The sons offer them to live separately, each spouse with another son, and change residence every half a year to another son. This is quite unbelievable and unrealistic. Would any child have had enough courage to act so cheap with their parents and separate them despite knowing how much they love each other? I don’t think so. I was surprised that after all, the parents decided to accept their children’s senseless conditions. I wonder, how is it possible? Why wouldn’t they have stayed together in their house and forgot about their children? Well if they had done this, this film probably wouldn’t have been made, so that’s pretty sums it up.

And that’s the particular period on which the story focuses: the first six months they live separately, Raj in the house of the second son, and Pooja in the house of the elder son. The film portrays their loneliness and suffering without each other, but most importantly shows how they discover the true colours of their children. Their children don’t care for them, treat them badly and don’t show any respect. Their daughters in-law are even worse. This part of the film is only reasonably well-done. The main problem with this entire concept is that you wonder how come they never get to meet during these six long months. Before they moved, they always had parties and dinners with the entire family and now they suddenly don’t? Are they in prison or what? The saviour comes in the form of Salman Khan, their adopted son who literally worships them. I did not really understand the need to show such an enormous love from Salman to his parents. It was, though ironic, extremely cheesy and hard to believe.

In spite of the many of its flaws, the film does have its moments and it manages to touch your heart on more than one occasion. For instance, the Diwali phone conversation between the couple; there is nothing to eat in the fridge and Raj pretends to be eating, yet his wife understands that he is lying. The scene is moving (although it is, again, hard to believe that a common family’s fridge would be completely empty). I loved the scene in which Hema asks her son how he can be moved by his wife’s tears but doesn’t give a damn for his mother’s tears. Hema Malini was spectacular in both of these scenes. What I particularly liked, however, is the nice interaction between Raj and the new people he meets in a nearby restaurant in which he spends most of his time, including its young clients and particularly its owners, a childless couple played by Paresh Rawal and Lillete Dubey.

Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini, who have worked together many times, totally rise above the script and bring so much experience, sensitivity and depth to their respective roles that the otherwise poorly-handled portrayal of their love becomes convincing. Paresh Rawal and Lillete Dubey play their roles to perfection and make for an extremely sympathetic couple. Salman and Mahima are wasted, and all the four sons, their wives and children, are strictly average. The film belongs to the main lead and it’s nice to see an out-and-out commercial Hindi movie in which the lead pair are 60 years old.

Baghban works in parts. Sometimes it’s exciting, but sometimes it’s boring and unwatchable. It generally works as typical Bollywood entertainment. The story had been tackled in Bollywood too many times before in films like Avtaar. Yet there is something very refreshing and new about the way it’s presented in a modern-day India, even if it’s not completely convincing. The irony conveyed through this film is too evident: strangers treat them better than their own children. I guess this was made to shock the audience and convey a striking message. The music is average, but the fact that Bachchan performs his own songs is good for the film. The ending is dramatic, overdone, but still somehow works on you. Maybe it’s the best thing about this film; the moral taught in it and the good acting are stronger than any of its weaknesses.

Can you trust your family? No, I mean really, can you?
The only two faults I found with this stellar story of a film is the fact that it was a tad-bit too long, but most importantly the casting of Rimii Sen (in her debut role) as Suman Ranganathan daughter. I mean come on? Isn’t Suman like 5 or 7 years tops older than Rimii? I just couldn’t get passed that when it was established, and just thought I’d get it out there for future viewers, so that they can brace themselves. Anyways, the film begins very poetically showing a man care-freely walking along the beach at sunset with one of his sons. This man is later revealed to be Amitabh Bachchan, a man who has been happily married for 40 years to a very beautiful wife (played by the devastatingly beautiful Hema Malini). Together, they have four grown up sons, who soon come home to help their parents celebrate their 40th anniversary. While the boys visit, the parents are forced to share a small mattress all so their sons and their wives and kids can be comfortable. Very soon after the anniversary, Amitabh’s character retires without much of a savings account and realises that he hadn’t done much of investing in anything for himself or his wife, all had been done for the kids. He know feels that he is unable to afford the beautiful house that they rent from a nice landlord (played by Sharat Saxena) and so after celebrating Holi, the tell their children to make the decision on whose home they would now stay in since they were giving up the house. This is when the true colours of the kids and their wives come out, as none of them want their parents to come and live with them. Nevertheless, they decide to split up their parents whose 40 year love affair has been the envy of many, including the children and their wives. Slowly but surely, the true nature of the kids and their wives that was revealed previously only to the viewers now becomes known to the parents as they struggle to survive in the prison-like homes of their children. Salman Khan, Paresh Rawal, Mahima Choudry and Divya Dutta all co-star in this intensely stirring drama.

Other Information:

Original Language hi
Runtime 3 hr 1 min (181 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 4800000
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Ravi Chopra
Writer Shafiq Ansari, Satish Bhatnagar, B.R. Chopra
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan
Country India
Awards 3 wins & 28 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm