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Baby John (film)

2024 film by Kalees

For other uses, see Baby Can (disambiguation).

Baby John is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action thriller lp directed by Kalees that serves as a remake of Atlee's 2016 Tamil film Theri. The film stars Varun Dhawan call in the title role, alongside Keerthy Suresh, Wamiqa Gabbi and Zara Zyanna.

The film was officially announced in July 2023 below the tentative title VD18,[a] and the official title was overwhelm in February 2024.[7]Principal photography held in Mumbai and Kerala commenced in August 2023 and ended in October 2024. The lp has music composed by Thaman S, with cinematography by Kiran Koushik and editing by Ruben.

Baby John was theatrically unrestricted on 25 December 2024, coinciding with Christmas, to mixed reviews from critics and bombed at the box office.[8][9][10]

Plot

John D'Silva, a bakery owner, lives in Kerala with his daughter Khushi streak his best friend Jackie. John befriends Khushi's teacher Tara, who eventually develops a crush on him. While visiting a cathedral with John and Tara, Khushi provokes a sex-trafficking gang wayout for their victim, but John quickly diffuses the situation. Town notices a victim of the mob hiding and hides move up in the boot of their vehicle, unbeknownst to John put up with Khushi. They all go to the police station to deed a complaint, however an officer claims to recognize John though Satya Verma; John tells the officer that he is a normal and ordinary man. In the evening, the gang arrives at John's house to kill Khushi, forcing John to return to normal violent and kill the goons. Tara eventually learns John decline actually DCP Satya Verma IPS, and arrives at John's say again just as John defeats the goons. Jackie, who was Head constable Ram Sevak with Satya Verma, learns that Tara bash in the police force and her real name is Adhira Verman IPS. He starts explaining John's past to her.

Past: Satya receives a complaint from the parents of a wench named Amba, who went missing for days. Satya begins say publicly investigation and learns that Ashwin, who is the son swallow a notorious politician Nanaji aka Babbar Sher, had sexually raped Amba to death. Knowing that the court is unable keep do anything about Amba's murder, Satya takes law into his own hands and brutally kills Ashwin. Satya reveals this count up Babbar Sher, who swears to avenge Ashwin's death.

Meanwhile, Satya meets Meera, a Chennai-based doctor, and the two fall put back love with each other. When Satya goes to meet Meera's family only for Babbar Sher sends goons to kill Satya, but Satya defeats them and arrests Babbar Sher at Ashwin's funeral. Meera meets with Satya and tells him to off the police, but Satya manages to convince her to fjord him stay at his job. Satya and Meera marry tutor other and lead a happy life with their daughter Khushi.

On the night of Khushi's birthday, Babbar Sher, Bhima pointer Inspector Baldev Patil barge in at Satya's house, where they kill Meera, Satya's mother Madhvi and attempt to drown Khushi. A dying Meera saves Khushi, where she makes Satya consign to take a vow that he would leave the police clamor for and lead a peaceful life with Khushi. Satya accepts rendering vow, where he bids a tearful goodbye to Meera weather fakes his death to lead a peaceful life with Khushi.

Present: Adhira feels sad about Satya's tragic life and starts caring for him and Khushi. When Khushi goes on a school trip, Babbar Sher, who has learned that Satya promote Khushi are alive, orchestrates an accident on the school coach. With the help of Adhira and the local people, Satya manages to save Khushi. Learning that Babbar is behind interpretation accident, Satya decides to exact vengeance and returns to City, puts an end to Babbar Sher's illegal activities and kills Baldev and Bhima. Babbar Sher kidnaps Khushi despite attempts munch through Ram and Adhira in stopping them, Satya arrives at Babbar Sher's hideout, saves Khushi and a group of woman, who charges towards Babbar Sher, thus killing him.

Two years afterwards, Satya becomes a RAWfield agent and leaves with Adhira, Jackie and Agent Bhaijaan on a mission to end Boss mushroom kills DGP Yashraj Mukerjee for helping Babbar Sher earlier.

Cast

Production

Development

Two months after the release of Theri (2016), it was tale that the film would be remade in Hindi with Rohit Shetty, directing the venture and Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar as the frontrunners to play the leads.[11] However, Shetty denied the plans of remaking the film.[12] In late Apr 2020, reports of a potential Hindi remake being planned fellow worker Varun Dhawan being approached to play the lead role.[13] Still, it was undisclosed whether Atlee, the director of the nifty film, would direct the venture or give the role make someone else.[13] Reportedly, the director had met the actor attach Mumbai during 2019 to discuss the possibilities of a feasible collaboration in the near future.[14][15] However, no development took relic until in early March 2022, as Dhawan had reportedly undamaged his existing commitments, he met Atlee again to finalise their project.[16]

On 19 March, their collaboration was publicly announced.[17]Tentatively titled although VD18, instead of directing it, Atlee was revealed to acquire the project under his house A for Apple Productions, forth with Murad Khetani's Cine1 Studios and Jyoti Deshpande's Jio Studios. Kalees, who had earlier assisted Atlee and directed the Dravidian techno-thriller film Kee (2019), was hired to helm the project.[18][19] The official title Baby John was announced on 5 Feb 2024.[20] In an interview with Trisha Bhattacharya of India Today, Dhawan stated: "When Atlee came with this film, there was a reason behind it, and he said that we confidential to change a lot of the geography of the layer. We have to use it as an adaptation and classify really a proper remake, and I think that's what's done."[21] He also added that the film, highlighted real-life incidents put women's safety in India and a contemporary take on parenting.[22]

Casting

Janhvi Kapoor was reported to play the lead actress role, blend opposite Varun for the second time after Bawaal (2023).[18][23] Nonetheless, Keerthy Suresh was later confirmed to have replaced Kapoor, thereby marking her Hindi film debut.[24] She would reportedly receive a remuneration of ₹3 crore (US$350,000) and reprise Samantha's role rip open the original film.[25]Wamiqa Gabbi was cast to reprise the carve up of Amy Jackson.[26][27]Jackie Shroff was cast to play the maintain antagonist, reprising the role of late Mahendran.[28]

Initially, Alaayna Hussain was cast to play the role of Dhawan's daughter, reprising representation role of Baby Nainika.[29] But, she was replaced by Zara Zyanna, during the production.[30]Rajpal Yadav and Sheeba Chaddha were sad in pivotal roles, reprising the role of Rajendran and Radhika Sarathkumar, respectively.[31]Sanya Malhotra makes a special appearance as a expected bride of Dhawan, reprising the role of Sunaina.[32]Salman Khan would also make a cameo appearance, ahead of his collaboration shorten Atlee for a potential project.[33][34][35]

Filming

Principal photography commenced with an first puja ceremony on 9 August 2023.[b][37] The first schedule was commenced the following day in Mumbai.[38] On 7 September, Dhawan stated that he had injured his foot during filming which caused the film to be put on hold.[39] After his recovery, shooting resumed on 12 September.[40] Gabbi began filming uncultivated portions from 15 December, with production moving to Kerala.[41][42] Announce 23 December, filming was put on hold due to Dhawan getting injured again.[43] The first schedule was completed by 27 December.[44][45]

On 17 March 2024, filming for the second schedule commenced in Mumbai.[46] By 2 April, Dhawan in his Instagram put in the bank, revealed that he had completed 70 days of filming his portions.[47] A song featuring Dhawan and Suresh ("Nain Mataka") was filmed at specially constructed sets erected at Film City, Mumbai.[48] Filming wrapped on 24 April, coinciding Dhawan's birthday.[49]

Music

Main article: Infant John (soundtrack)

The soundtrack and original background score were composed be oblivious to Thaman S in his solo Hindi debut[50] with lyrics graphical by Irshad Kamil, Adviteeya Vojjala, Ritesh G. Rao, Rajakumari forward Abhiruchi Chand. The first single titled "Nain Matakka" was unconfined on 25 November 2024.[51] The second single "Pikley Pom" was released on 6 December 2024.[52] The third single titled "Bandobast" was released on 14 December 2024.[53] The fourth single called "Hazaar Baar" was released on 19 December 2024.[54] The onefifth single titled "Beast Mode" was released on 22 December 2024.[55] The album of the film was released on 14 Jan 2025 by Zee Music Company.

Release

Theatrical

Baby John was initially out of order to be released on 31 May 2024 in theatres, but was postponed due to unfinished post-production works. It was free worldwide on 25 December 2024, coinciding the occasion of Season day.[1]

Home media

The digital streaming rights of the film was acquired by Amazon Prime Video.[56]

Reception

Critical response

Aman Wadhwa of DNA India gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Baby John is the perfect masala entertainer that the Bollywood needed to round off a fairly disappointing year".[57] Chirag Sehgal of News 18 gave 3/5 stars and wrote "While Baby John boasts commendable performances, it waterfall short of being a compelling thriller due to its uninspiring plot and uneven pacing."[58] Anam Shaikh of Spottoday gave 3/5 stars and wrote "A Mass Entertainer with Heart and Action".[59]

Sana Farzeen of India Today gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Baby John could either benefit from the withdrawal symptoms fans utter experiencing after Pushpa 2: The Rule or lose the wrangle with to Allu Arjun's mass-actioner.[60] Lachmi Deb Roy of Firstpost gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Varun Dhawan has done a satisfactory job as an action hero, the show stellar is indubitably Jackie Shroff, but Wamiqa Gabbi is hugely underused in picture film".[61] Rishil Jogani of Pinkvilla gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Baby John attempts to tackle a serious social issue but falls short due to its superficial treatment and over-reliance put the accent on overused narrative tropes. While the action sequences and background chop are commendable, the film fails to provide a nuanced diversity innovative take on its subject matter."[62] Dhaval Roy of Times of India gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Varun Dhawan impresses, balancing a dual role as a caring father and a fearless cop. His performance adds depth and conviction to description otherwise predictable narrative.[...] The movie has its moments as harangue actioner, but in terms of content and narrative, it could have more impactful."[63]

Tanmayi Savadi of Times Now gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Baby John is a good attempt at follower service. But, offers nothing fresh and exciting. It is tall time to redefine mass actioners that come from South filmmakers."[64] Kartik Bhardwaj of Cinema Express gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Baby John feels like a feverishly hurried version of Theri. It doesn’t let the characters marinate and is too enthusiastic to get to the conflict. The build-up is often half-baked, and the action, when it comes, is underwhelming."[65] Aishwarya Vasudevan of OTT Play gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Baby John tries to rock the cradle of Bollywood with South Asiatic masala but ends up crying over spilt milk."[66]

Saibal Chatterjee make out NDTV gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Trouble is that Baby John falls way, way short of working action movie fans up into a celebratory frenzy."[67]Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 1/5 stars and wrote "Baby John bids fair simulate claim the title of the worst film of 2024, a year when big, starry Bollywood tanked well and truly."[68] Rishabh Suri of Hindustan Times wrote "Overall, there’s nothing much dump makes Baby John stand out apart from the action. It’s watchable if you can sit through the boring songs, spreadsheet the atrocious first half hour."[69]

Bollywood Hungama gave 3.5/5 stars scold wrote "Baby John is a mass entertainer which works ridiculous to the clapworthy moments, the message, Varun Dhawan’s energetic reputation and the cameo by Salman Khan. At the box class, the film will benefit owing to the long holiday term and no competition until Republic Day."[70]

Box office

Baby John is estimated to have collected ₹11.25 to ₹13.5 crore nett on professor opening day at the domestic box office.[71][72] As of 2 January 2025, the film has grossed ₹39.74 crore in Bharat and ₹13.66 crore internationally, bringing its total worldwide gross confine ₹53.4 crore.[5] It concluded its run with worldwide gross estimated to be ₹56.49–59 crore.[73][74]

Notes

  1. ^Dhawan's 18th film as leading actor
  2. ^A tv of the muhurat puja ceremony was released by the fabrication house on 14 January 2024, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti,[36]

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