• Friday, December 04, 2009

• Country:

  India

• Language:

  Hindi

2009

Balki’s ‘Paa’ has Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan in a very different kind of a role. Unlike real life, the film portrays Amitabh Bachchan as Abhishek Bachchan’s son. Amitabh Bachchan suffers from Progeria, a rare congenital abnormal characteristics where the person ages rapidly. Amitabh Bachchan is shown to have this rare characteristics in the Paa. The film paa is more an emotional father-son relationship with the ailment as the back-drop.

Auro Arte (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent, witty 13 year old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated ageing. He suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he 13, very normal but physically he looks 5 times older. Inspite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother, Vidhya Kumari (Vidya Balan) who is a gynaecologist.

Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan) is young, progressive and full of ideas politician. He is out to prove to the world that 'politics' is not a bad word. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol's son in paa.

Trivias

• When Amitabh Bachchan appeared in school as Auro for the first time, the students were actually shocked at his appearance. They didn't know it was Bachchan and thought it was a real old man - they even wanted to touch his head.
• Amitabh Bachchan's makeup/prosthetics as Aurol Arte took six hours to apply.
• Amitabh Bachchan acts as a son, whose father is played by his son Abhishek Bachchan in paa movie.
• Paa was inspired by Jack (1996), making it the second film to star the Sr.-Jr. Bachchans that has been based on a Francis Ford Coppola film. The first was Sarkar (2005), which was based on The Godfather (1972).
• This is the second time Amitabh Bachchan draws inspiration from a Robin Williams film. The first was Aladdin (1992), which inspired Bachchan's performance as Genius in Aladin (2009). This film paa was inspired by Jack (1996), which stared Williams in the eponymous title.