Product Details

• Actors: Aarzoo Gowitrikar, Aman Varma, Amitabh Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Hema Malini
• Directors: Ravi Chopra?
• Producers: B.R.Chopra?
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Eros Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Run Time: 181 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000IZJQU2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,466 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Baghban" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A moving 2003 drama with heart that goes deeply into inter-generational relationships, July 5, 2009

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

This review is from: Baghban (DVD)

Baghban (The Caretaker )is about an older couple (Amitabh Bachchan & Hema Malini) who have remained in love and devoted to each other, and have lived their marriage focused on their 4 natural sons and one adopted son (Salman Khan). They are good people who are loved by their friends but their geneority to their children means they retire with no money. They ask their sons that they live with them. All 4 natural sons and their wives resist this as it messed with their established lives. They offer a plan that Mum and Dad be split up and that each takes turns at putting one up. They aren't very generous with the parent they do have and treat them badly. Meanwhile Dad has befriended the childless owner of a local café/bookstore (Paresh Rawal) and his wife (Lillete Dubey) and they encourage him to write his story. Eventually adopted son and new wife rescue the pair and friends have arranged the publishing of the father's writings.
While it was a little slow in parts (and quite long) I became quite involved in this one. It is well acted -though Salman Khan was trying to play himself down as humble so much he was almost unnecessarily low key at times. The sons and wives were a bit stereotyped too. However this movie had some very thoughtful and poetic passages on love and relationships, and I found myself quite moved and drawn into it.
Frequenters of Bollywood are familiar with various plays on intergenerational relationships. We have seen amazing happy intergenerational families under the same roof; egotistical controlling parents dictating to their kids how to live with no real care for the child; and this sort - good parents with self-focused kids. This one was a bit deeper than usual and did leave me thinking of the balance between togetherness and freedom between generations that the West has taken into the free/ disconnected end (often as a reaction to experiences of control, blindness and suffocation from the opposite experience in earlier centuries).
It was also an exploring of a deep long-lasting marital relationship and how love can be when people are considerate and tuned in. I wouldn't have given it the ending they did but others may disagree with me on that.
Amitabh, Hema, Paresh & Lillete are especially good and the screenplay rich. The music was fine but mostly I can't recall much of it. The fact it brought me to tears at times (usually in a good way!) I always rate highly. Though it's fair to say some find it overdone in the melodrama too!
Elsewhere on the Net it scores above average and it was nominated for, and won a range of awards. A keeper.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every penny and your time, August 18, 2008

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RandR "Real Beauty" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Baghban (DVD)

This was an excellent movie. the first Indian movie i've seen i watched because a friend just couldn't stop talking about it. The movie is long like 3 hours but you get lost in the story. It is such a wonderful family movie and so refreshing, non violent and clean something almost impossible to find anymore even in a cartoon! It is very impressive to find something truly entertaining and a great story line. It is romantic, the scenes that show dancing are fabulous. I love the couple in this movie. A lot about the movie is realistic. I think it was definlety written from an older persons perspective but it is great to see it made me call my mom just to say i love you after seeing it. Its a reminder of how much we should respect and cherish our parents. No matter the mistakes they made we should remember the good and treat them with the dignity we hope to be treated with when we are their age. If you like a great love story, great writing and a clean movie this is for you!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amitabh is a genius of an Actor!, September 2, 2009

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Finny - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baghban (DVD)

Baghban is a movie that everyone should see at least once. It is a movie about love. It is a movie about family. It is a movie about three generations. It is a movie about heartbreak and hope. It is a movie about disrespect within those who are close and honour among those who are close. It is a movie about the attitude of the ungrateful vs one who is forever indebted.

This is what a movie should be. If you see one Indian movie this year, make it this one. You will be glad you did. Amitabh bachchan is one of the greats. Salman Khan acts as the adopted son. I have so much respect for him because I heard that Shahrukh Khan turned down the role thinking that it was only a small role. If there was ever a great role to play, this was it and shame on SRK for turning down this part.