Baton Baton Mein

Review By Kamal K

Superb, lovely simple film! That ambience, those light romantic moments, simple but effective dialogues, and full of smiles and laughters and very sweet songs & music!

Each character is lively, each one is imp in the story of the film, even Sabby and Henry. Tina Munim looks so so so....... beautiful!

Such films are rare, not made daily!

It's a once in a decade type of movie.

I always enjoy watching it repeatedly!

Hats off to Basu da for giving us one more supreb film after Chhoti si baat.

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

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.

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.