After the fiasco of Indian super-heroes and
secret agents in overhyped movies like Bang Bang and Happy New Year, the
success of which frankly speaks very poorly of the tastes of the Indian
movie-goer, comes a convincing action thriller from the Akshay Kumar stable.
Baby (Hindi) is a covert outfit pulled together post the 2008 December Mumbai
attacks – its objective is covert ops, its identity a closely held secret, its
mission always under a cloak of plausible deniability. Spanning across Istanbul,
Nepal and Saudi Arabia, Baby pulls it off – not slick, but somewhat stodgy and
believable, with believable characters. Nicely done guys
15/20
