Baton Baton Mein

Basu Chatterji's movies are known for depicting middle-class lives of Indians effectively.This movie does the same.Based in Christian families of Mumbai of Tony and Nancy,it talks about their love relationship,the involvement of their families into it and marriage!!!

Basu da's direction is flawless.The movie does not falter at any moment. It is highly engrossing and makes for repeated viewing.The music by Rajesh Roshan is beautiful.All the four songs are extra-ordinary and have been sung equally well.The cinematography,art direction, costumes, editing,etc are all good and add to the beauty of the story.

Coming to the performances,Amol Palekar as always is exceptional.His look in the movie compliments his acting.Tina Munim is average.The supporting cast that consists of Pearl Padamsee,Piloo Wadia,Leela Mishra,Shobhini Singh,David,Ranjit Chowdhary,Deb Mukherjee,Uday Chandra,Arvind Deshpande,etc have all performed very well.Asrani in a special appearance and Tun Tun in an imaginary sequence leave a mark.

On the overall,the movie is very good and makes for repeated viewing.

The story involves a young man and woman who travel by train to their office and fall in love. The unique thing about this film as with other Basu Chaterjee movies is it captures the life of the middle class very well.

In this movie Basu Chaterjee captures the lifestyle of the middle class urban Christian community in India authentically. Like many of his films the city of Mumbai is an important character in the movie Technically it may not be very advanced but the story and the narrative is one of the finest.

It is unfortunate that most people of my generation (I am born in 1980) have not seen this movie or even heard about it. The lack of knowledge about this movie among the young generation has prevented a good quality DVD of this movie hitting the market.

I have given it 9 out of 10.

Basu Chatterji narrates this story in a most simplistic manner capturing the day to day life of working class India ( mainly the deep rooted Indo- Catholic culture) of 1979 set in Bandra Bombay ( Mumbai )

Tina Munim stands out as Nancy along with Tony played brilliantly by the then urban india star Amol Palekar.

David Abraham as Nancy"s uncle Tom,Leela Mishra ,the Daadi, Pearl Padamse as Rosie (Nancy"s mom) and Ranjit Chowdhary as Sabhi( Nancy"s younger brother ) together creates an absorbing family drama which feels like Band-Stand's pleasant breeze.

Rajesh Roshan gives a super hit album with noted performances by Amit & Kishore Kumar.

Plot :

Tony falls for Nancy while travelling to work in Bombay Local train. The movie takes us on a journey depicting the relationship between various characters revolving around Nancy and Tony.

The story of 4 christian families. 3 lives together, whereas the 4th one introduced coincidentally in the train and a movie theater. A mother, to much interested to marry her daughter, finds a man to marry her daughter with him.

Typical Bollywood flick. Nothing new. A same and simple story dragged long. Not bad as well. So many coincident ruin my interest to watch till the very end. If I tell anything about the coincident incidents it will spoiler. So watch it or not, if not, you will not miss a masterpiece.

The music is so good. The contemporary Goa city is very beautiful to enjoy. Overall a time pass.

I though the guy Henry as Mazhar Khan but he is not him.

This film has a lovely story that isn't your run of the mile bollywood over dramatised romeo & juliet style love story. The film itself is simple and unfortunately it shows. The film looks cheap in places and the direction is not at its best in times. The soundtrack is fantastic with lovey classic numbers such as baaton baaton me pyar ho jayega!" After several afternoon meeting with the heroine and her ever loving family. The hero comes to grips with the fact that his new best friend is actually the girl for him. it all ends very happy happy.. A good effort that is not bad. all in all a good watchable film