Product Details

• Actors: Amitabh Bachchan
• Directors: Ravi Chopra
• Format: Dolby, NTSC
• Language: Hindi
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Adlabs
• DVD Release Date: January 28, 2007
• Run Time: 168 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MRP3WQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #187,541 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving film with heart, December 15, 2008

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Lyn Taryn "Lyn Taryn" (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baabul (DVD)

It's hard to review this without giving the story away too much. It is a story about love and relationships: not just romantic relationships but between parents and children. It has its light romantic side in among that.
However it also has deeper messages for Indian traditionalists. I gather that traditionally many Indian women do not remarry when they are widowed but are condemned to live a perpetual bereavment with their in-laws.
The movie challenges traditional values and looks to a higher wisdom and greater heart as relevant principles when this happens. So it is also a compassionate movie. It is also about putting ones own ego aside for the sake of others happiness and coming from love instead.
Amitabh Bachchan plays a man of great wisdom, heart and integrity and anchors the movie. It is a moving performance. The other actors similarly do a solid job. A lot is asked of Rani Mukerjee and she rises to it with a breadth of acting and response.
Her 2 love interests to some extent are secondary to the main story but both do well and whether you like them may depend to a large extent on whether you are generally fans.
With my foray into Bollywood it's the first time I've seen John Abraham as other than a muscle bound 'hunk' (not my usual taste in males anyway!) This time he plays a gentler romantic hero and, while that took a bit of adjusting to, he did it well.
I see from other reviewers that Salmon Khan brings a mixed response in people. In this movie I thought he was fine and did what was required.
This movie is about wisdom, integrity and heart and it left me moved. To me that's a very desirable mix.
While it's called a drama and has very dark, serious pictures on the cover it isn't a bleak movie and does have a lot of lightness in it but it does have themes of grief as well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well-acted movie portraying different facets of love, July 7, 2009

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Z Hayes (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baabul (DVD)

"Baabul" stars iconic Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan as a progressive father-in-law who displays true love and understanding towards his widowed daughter-in-law {Rani Mukherjee] after his son [Salman Khan] is killed in a car crash. Despite societal conventions that typically dictate a widow is to spend the rest of her natural life in mourning for her dead husband, a society that disdains the idea of remarriage [yes, even in contemporary society], this father-in-law tries to get his daughter-in-law a new lease on life by encouraging her to love again , in the form of John Abraham, her old friend who has loved her for years.

The part that did annoy me [and hence only 4 instead of 5 stars] was the way the movie portrayed men making important decisions, irrespective of what the women thought or desired - the mother-in-law in the movie [played by Hema Malini] is against her daughter-in-law's remarrying, and Rani Mukherjee who plays the role of the daughter-in-law is hardly consulted by the men as to what she really wants. Hence, though the movie tries hard to put forth ideas of women being liberated by the shackles of tradition and out-dated conventions, some parts don't quite gel together.

On the whole though, I really liked this movie, mostly because of the stellar cast and credible acting by the leads. I do get tired by the same old commercial Bollywood movies with the typical dance and music routines, and Baabul at least tries to offer something different. The theme may not be new or unique, but the acting makes it credible and engaging. Recommended!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UNIQUE, October 13, 2007

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Y. GOMEZ (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baabul (DVD)

IT IS A UNIQUE STORY. BEST ACTORS EVER. IT MAY ME LAUGH HALF OF THE MOVIE, ON THE OTHER HALF IT MAY ME CRY, BUT IT HAS A PURPOSE THAT YOU WILL FIND OUT AT THE END OF THE MOVIE.I WILL SEE THIS MOVIE OVER AND OVER, AND THE SONGS ARE THE BEST.........................