Balak Palak

It's a story of four teenagers, a Chandal Choukadi, who are innocent and enjoy their day to day life. Everything is fine until a girl was thrown out of her house for a 'misdeed'. Then their search begins what was her misdeed and why it is a misdeed.

During this journey they take help of a guy who is well known for having the knowledge of such misdeeds. This guy becomes their teacher. He tells them about the misdeeds and with that the background of it. Right from the beginning!

This movie forces us to think about the current situation of sex education in India, where teenagers hardly get pure sex education and the curiosity of it forces them to watch porn movies where this purity gets adulterated.

Though it is said the movie can be seen with the parents, it's not true. There will always be some kind of awkwardness if teenagers watch this movie with their parents. I will suggests the parents and teenagers should watch this movie not together but separately. This will give them a space to think about where they find themselves in this movie. Otherwise this space will be taken by the awkwardness.

A nice movie to watch. Totally worth!

Nicely portrayed the delicate issue of advising today's parent handle issues related to sex education in a more transparent way in order to help their children distinguish between Lust and Love. This is a must watch movie for all parents.

The dram entangles typical middle class families of India who are busy in achieving the comfort for their children; but at the same time they are not able to spend time with them. Kids who have many question related to life (read SEX) falls prey to company that will lead them to an unguided path. All four kids portrayed their character beautifully. Their innocence and curiosity to know what their elder sister (neighbor) has done so as to bring disgrace to their family. Their path to find the answer and some awkward situation with their parents when asked very sensitive question are fun filled. A must watch for all....

Fantastic movie! One can watch with the whole family...1st half is full blown laughter and 'excitement' and second half is equally serious.

When we were school kids (which was just 7 years ago), schools used to arrange special shows of movies like 'Veer Savarkar' for us. I think time has come that BP be shown to school-kids at concessional rates.

But there's a flip side to this. Real 'innocent' kids (hard to find these days) will get idea of how to get 'things', which is not what the movie aims to show.

Critital mentions-

Excellent handling by the director and outstanding cinematography. It's only the second movie after Vicky Donor that has lived up to the standard expected when you're handling such sensitive subjects

Enjoyable, thoroughly! Don't miss this one

One of the best movies in Indian Cinema, and I would say a revelation in itself if one is following Marathi Cinema from 1980s or so.

The canvas of the movie which relates to every Maharashtrian lower middle class family. That Denying ignorant attitude of parents, in those days, where forget Sex, even Love was taboo is perfectly portrayed in the movie.

One cannot deny that the movie gets a bit overboard with the character living in the slums and could have been played in a more subtle way. But that would have removed the Fun part of the movie.

Favorite : That Background song Susangati Sada and the Sanpada Scene. The look and feel, and I am not just talking about the cinematography but the overall heart of the movie is in the right place.

Must watch.

A superb movie with a superb story and dialogues. Dedicated to all teenagers but made specially for parents. Specially Chiu's(Bhagyashree Shankpal's) smile will make you die.

Balak Palak provides the space for adolescent adventures but has enough moral fibre to keep the adventures from going haywire. BP is a message movie about the importance of talking to children about the birds-and-bees business that doubles up as a nostalgia piece about a community-based way of life in which experimentation and edification share an address. The Director stays away from double entendre and keeps the movie firmly on a UA-rated course despite the boldness of the subject. The young actors perform their roles admirably, and betray no awkwardness about being avid consumers of adult material.