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ShareFilm: Heyy Babyy
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh
Rating: ***
At the movies this weekend, is television's smart ass-Sajid Khan's first attempt at tickling the funny bone. For a first timer, Farah Khan's younger brother delivers quite a decent entertainer.
Heyy Babyy, (never mind Sajid turning blue in the face denying this), inspired by Three Men and a Baby is a story of three incorrigible bachelors, Arush (Akshay Kumar), Ali aka Al (Fardeen Khan) and Tanmay (Ritesh Deshmukh) whose carefree lives get thrown off course with the arrival of an eight-month- old baby at their doorstep one fine morning.
What follows are the three men's helpless efforts at babysitting her, feeding and cleaning her alternately, getting exhausted and dirtied themselves. The three are also seen making a list of all the women they have slept with in the past one year for they are sure that that one of them is the mother of the baby.
Midway through their 'mommy act', the men commit the unpardonable sin of abandoning the child themselves, get consumed by guilt and take the baby back into their lives. Everything appears peaceful now. The men lose their respective jobs and transform into full time nappy-changing doting daddies. But there is more trouble. For what do you expect? There is a baby in the movie.
During the first half of the movie, the men are seen as a bunch of blundering idiots, messing around with baby food, milk and soiled nappies in one too many scenes. But this is only after seeing them with 15 Bollywood sirens (in the title track), who willingly let themselves be groped and sprayed at with champagne by the men. All the three male actors are also seen mouthing off dialogues filled with sexual innuendos and puerile humour. Clearly, Sajid Khan suffers from a Masti hangover.
Thankfully, such scenes come to an end with Esha's (Vidya Balan) entry into the film post-interval. The movie, surprisingly, takes on a more sensible turn. In yet another seasoned performance, a range of comical expressions bounce off Akshay's face, that earns genuine laughs from the audience. Vidya too delivers another compelling performance in a fiery role. She, however, needs to lose more weight before she begins to sport all those Aki Narulla-type creations.
Though Fardeen is quite dismal in the first half, as a Sanskrit-spewing nerd in the latter half, he is smashing. His chemistry with the child deserves special mention. And so does the refreshingly new tunes that Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy have given this film.
Heyy Babyy does get derailed early on, with a not too imaginative script and a cliched portrayal of the male leads, but gets back on track thanks to good performances, foot-tapping music and even a cameo by SRK. The latest offering from Sajid Nadiadwala is surely worth more than just a tub of popcorn.
