Baba (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Baba


caption = Baba movie Poster
starring = Rajnikanth,
Manisha Koirala,
Goundamani,
Delhi Ganesh,
Sujatha,
Vijayakumar
Bave Kugan
director = Suresh Krishna
story, screenplay = Rajinikanth
producer = Lotus International
released =| August, 2002
runtime = 179 min.
budget =15 crores
language =| [Tamil language|Tamil] | music = A.R. Rahman gross = 20 crores

"Baba" is a 2002 Indian Tamil film starring Rajinikanth and directed by Suresh Krishna. The story and screenplay were by Rajinikanth. The film's cast includes Manisha Koirala, Vijayakumar, Goundamani, Sujatha, Karunas, Ashish Vidyarthi and Riyaz Khan. Ramya Krishnan, Sarath Babu, Lawrence Raghavendra, Prabhu Deva, Amrish Puri, Radha Ravi, Sayaji Shinde and Nassar appeared in guest roles. The film didn't do as expected in box offices and caused much controversy. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326746/]

Plot

Baba (Rajinikanth), a ganglord, who also happens to be the reincarnation of a Himalayan saint, is graced with an upclose meeting with Mahavatar Babaji. Subsequently, he is granted with 7 boons. He is not sure if this meeting is real or a dream, so he tests the first 5 wishes for various trivial things. The sixth wish is used to revive a patient fighting for his life. The villain (Ashish Vidhyarthi) knows about the boons offered to Baba and wants to become the chief minister of the state using them. He also tries to kill Baba but this attempt fails due to the blessings of Babaji. The final wish is then used to install an unselfish chief minister for the state. Once his wishes are used up, Baba has the choice of living with Babaji at the Himalayas or returning back to life in the material world. But when Baba is just about to ascend to the Himalayas, the villains kill the loyal chief minister. Baba turns back and the film ends with the tag "To be continued...." . Baba miserably failed at box office. After giving a superhit through Padayappa, Rajnikanth tasted failure with Baba becoming a disaster at the box office. [http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-baba.html]

oundtrack

The soundtrack consists of 5 songs composed by A.R. Rahman:
*Dippu Dippu - Shankar Mahadevan
*Kichchu Tha - Reena Baradwaj and S.P. Balasubramaniam
*Maya Maya - Karthik and Sujatha
*Rajyama Illai Emaiyama- Jayachandran
*Sakthi Kodu - Karthik

External links

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* [http://www.arrahman.net/index.php/baba-2002.html Baba Song Lyrics & Notations]