Baby
- Director
- Neeraj Pandey
- Studio
- T-Series FilmsCape of Good Films
- Release Date
- 23 January 2015
- Running Time
- 159 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹25.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹143.00 Cr
Cast
Review
Neeraj Pandey's "Baby" arrives as a taut, purposeful thriller that sidesteps the melodramatic trappings Bollywood typically lathers onto spy narratives. Akshay Kumar delivers a remarkably restrained performance—all coiled intensity and minimal flourish—that anchors the film's procedural momentum. Where similar films like "Khiladi 1080" or even "Chandni Bar" descend into romantic subplots and unnecessary heroics, "Baby" maintains laser focus on its counter-terrorism apparatus, treating espionage as unglamorous grunt work. The investigation sequences crackle with authenticity; you believe in the tradecraft, the surveillance tactics, the incremental intelligence-gathering. Pandey's direction is disciplined, avoiding the lingering slow-motion shots that plague contemporary action cinema, though occasionally the pacing stumbles when shifting between Mumbai and international locales.
What complicates the film's achievement, however, is how its narrative thrust weakens precisely when it should crescendo. The Mumbai raid sequence, despite its visceral suicide-bombing climax, feels emotionally hollow—we haven't invested enough in Ajay's team members to feel the weight of their deaths. Compare this to "A Wednesday," where character stakes are surgically implanted well before the explosion, or "Raees," where antagonism is personal before it's political. The second half pivots into fairly standard revenge territory, diluting the procedural strength that made the first act compelling. Th
Storyline
So basically, there's this special government task force put together after a major terror attack in India, and they're determined to hunt down anyone planning violence in the country. Our main guy Ajay is this tough secret agent who manages to catch a turncoat terrorist and gets him to spill the beans about a bomb plot targeting a shopping mall in Delhi—which Ajay successfully stops. But here's the thing: the terrorist reveals this was just the beginning of a whole series of attacks being planned, which sets Ajay on a much bigger mission.
Meanwhile, things get complicated when a powerful terrorist leader based in Pakistan orchestrates the prison escape of another dangerous criminal and sends in reinforcements. Ajay and his team get wind of this and start investigating, eventually tracking down a terrorist operative hiding in Mumbai. During an intense raid on the guy's hideout, things go terribly wrong—it turns into a bloodbath where most of Ajay's team members get killed in a suicide bombing.
After this devastating loss, the agency reggroups and keeps pushing forward with their investigation, tracking down leads and trying to prevent the next phase of these coordinated terror attacks. Ajay finds himself driven by both duty and the need to avenge his fallen teammates as he digs deeper into the terrorist network's plans.
