Paa

Paa (2009)

पा

Auro suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he is 13 but physically he looks 5 times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya, who is a gynaecologist. Amol is young, progressive politician. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol's son. Paa is a 'rare' story about a father-son, son-father relationship.

Date of release
2009-12-04
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (97)
Runtime
2h 13m
Genres
Drama, Family
Director
R. Balki

Casting

Interesting facts

Paa (transl. Father) is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by R. Balki, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Vidya Balan. Jaya Bachchan makes a cameo appearance in the opening credits of the film as a narrator. The film is inspired by the 1996 Hollywood film Jack as per some reports and is based on the relationship of a boy with a rare genetic condition progeria and his parents. Amitabh and Abhishek, father and son in real life, play son and father respectively in the film. The film was released worldwide on 4 December 2009. Veteran composer Ilaiyaraaja scored the film's music.

Production

The film had Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of a child who is suffering from progeria, a genetic disorder which leads to the quick acceleration of the ageing process in children. Abhishek Bachchan, Amitabh's real-life son, played the role of his father.

Vidya Balan was the only choice for the mother's role. Arundathi Nag, the wife of late Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag was asked to play the role of Vidya's mother.

Most of the parts were shot in Lucknow and some parts of the film were shot in the UK and Malaysia. A small portion of the filming was done at Cambridge and Oxford. The clock of Corpus Christi College and the courtyard of St. John's College in Cambridge and Brasenose Lane and Radcliffe Square in Oxford have been shown in a song sequence. The film was also shot in Taiping, Malaysia.

One of the notable things in the movie was Amitabh's prosthetic make-up. It was done by Hollywood's Christien Tinsley (famous for his work in The Passion of the Christ, Catwoman and other films) and Dominie Till of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy fame.

Balki had earlier planned to make a sequel named Maa. He said, "My main aim was not to make a film on progeria. My main motive behind making Paa was to reverse the roles of Amitabh and Abhishek. I decided to do something like this because once I was with both of them and I saw Abhishek behaving in a very matured manner and Amitabh, behaving as a kid. It was then that this idea struck me."

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