Remember the comic thriller flicks of yesteryears like ’Victoria No. 203’ and ’Raja Aur Rana’. Yes, the formula was to make a gang of two and set the target that seems unachievable on face, bring in lots of humor and add some masala of entertainment from here and there.
Cut to 21st century, the new age directors don’t have seasoned actors like Pran and Ashok Kumar. We wonder what would happen when the current band of senior actors like Paresh Rawal and others retire.
Director Govind Menon tried his luck with garam Dharam in his last flick ’Kis Kiski Kismat’ but that sank without even a trash. So, this time he makes it safer and ropes in glamour doll of yesteryears’ Rekha for help.
With this glamorous and gorgeous lady, Govind Menon adds his favorite s-e-x babe Mallika Sherawat. The idea is the same as was in many films of 70’ and 80’s. The only difference is the approach because it’s only the approach that makes the difference in the end.
Govind Menon used Mallika’s more than a dozen kiss scenes in ’Khwahish’; this time around he has gone up to capture the lip locking sequences.
There many not be any novelty in presenting a comic thriller as a s-e-x thriller but Govind tries to make Mallika look more seductive than ever. This is the only highlight of ’Bachke Rehna Re Baba’. And this also proves to be the biggest drawback.
Based on the Hollywood’s ’Heartbreakers’, ’Bachke Rehna Re Baba’ presents Rekha as Madam X of 21st century. She is neither dare nor devil. She uses her physical assets to lure rich men, very true to her screen name Rukmini.
Once she does that and makes sure that the prey is in her paws, she introduces her niece Padmini in the scene. Yes, Mallika baby is in the role of Rekha’s prot駩 in the film.
Not only she learns lessons of how to seduce a man and make him tremble in his knickers, she also learns from her aunt how to con the riches and make a moolah in life. Rukmini and Padmini do it again and again and with ease.
The prey is pitted against the two women, face to face, and has no chance but to pay a huge sum to them to save his skin. They hit the bull’s eye with every rich man be it a businessman from sada Punjab (Paresh Rawal) or a golu molu NRI businessman from Mauritius.
Everything is going as per the plan that Rukmini has laid out for the life. Then enters the young chap Raghu (Karan Khanna) and the women’s plans go haywire. The reason is his love for Padmini.
Rukmini has already briefed Paddu against love in their life. What should Paddu do now? The situation becomes graver with the return of the cheated businessmen, one dead and the other alive.
Director Govind Menon is working on Mallika like Ram Gopal Verma once worked on Urmila Matondkar. If ’Rangeela’ was Urmila’s high point in her career, Mallika too has delivered her best in ’Khwahish’ months back.
She has shown her body a lot and now only her seducing advances make people in front benches whistle and giggle. Otherwise, she does not look a s-e-xy woman at all. She does try to ooze oomph on screen, but she doesn’t have that charm in her looks that Urmila once had.
Mallika can work for some more films exposing her body, but if she wants to stay here for long, she must learn how to act. Govind Menon has tried to build up a drama out of nothing; the story of ’Bachke Rehna Re Baba’ is very stale and has nothing novel in telling too. Govind Menon also loses his attention from the story once Thomas Xavier’s camera starts moving on the natural assets of Mallika.
Showing the skin of Mallika remains his first priority; Govind puts all other things behind. Scene execution in most of the film looks immature because what Govind tries to create with the comic scenes gets carried away by the under current of s-e-x every time.
However, Mallika’s entry in ’Paisa Vasool’ was for the masses. Classes might try to keep away from the film from the very first day.
To rate actors as per their performances will be injustice to Mallika in ’Bachke Rehna Re Baba’. So, if we go by as to who exposed to the most in the film, it is none but the s-e-xy lass from Haryana, Mallika Sherawat who scores 20 out of 10. Yes, it is because the only aim to have Mallika on the screen in ’Bachke Rehna Re Baba’ is to have her to expose as much as she can.