Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap
- Director
- Puri Jagannadh
- Studio
- Viacom 18 Motion PicturesAmitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited
- Release Date
- 1 November 2011
- Running Time
- 118 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹21.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹24.52 Cr
Review
Akshay Kumar's attempt at playing a grizzled, aging assassin grappling with fatherhood could've been poignant, but instead it's a muddled mess that mistakes sentimentality for substance. The premise—a father unknowingly protecting his cop son while wrestling with mortality and regret—has genuine dramatic meat, yet director Prabhu Deva squanders it by treating the film like a schizophrenic action vehicle that can't decide if it's a crime thriller, a family drama, or a romantic comedy. Kumar delivers some decent moments of vulnerability when the father-son angle takes center stage, but these fleeting instances are drowned out by overlong, unnecessarily stylized action sequences and a romance subplot with Katrina Kaif that feels utterly tacked on. The twist reveal of Vijju's true identity arrives so late and with such theatrical fanfare that it undermines the emotional weight it should carry.
What truly frustrates me is the squandered potential in the core conflict. The underworld plot involving the crime boss and the cop's sixty-day ultimatum is paper-thin—there's zero tension, zero stakes, and the antagonist Kabir is so poorly developed he might as well be cardboard. Meanwhile, the secondary mystery involving Amrita's suspicions about Vijju and Kamini's past is abandoned entirely, leaving loose threads everywhere. The technical execution is slick enough—the cinematography is polished, the music is serviceable—but slickness cannot compensate for a narrative that's narratively
Storyline
So basically, this tough cop named Karan has declared war on organized crime in Mumbai and vows to clean up the city within just sixty days. This obviously doesn't sit well with the local crime boss Kabir, who decides the best solution is to eliminate Karan before he becomes a real problem. So they bring in Vijju, this legendary assassin who's been living it up in Paris for years and really doesn't want to admit he's getting older, to come back and take care of their cop problem.
What makes things interesting is that while all this underworld drama is happening, Karan is also trying to rekindle a romance with his old college sweetheart Tanya. Things get even more complicated when Tanya's friend Amrita starts getting suspicious about Vijju's connection to her mother Kamini, and she's convinced that these two must have had some secret romantic history together based on how friendly they act around each other.
The real twist comes when it's revealed that Vijju isn't actually there as a hitman at all—he's actually Karan's own father trying to protect him without Karan even knowing it. Turns out Vijju was once heavily involved in the criminal underworld, and his dangerous lifestyle ended up destroying his marriage and separating him from his son, who never even knew his father existed. So now you've got this emotional family situation unfolding while deadly danger keeps closing in from every direction.
