BA PASS- Film Review

 

Starring:- Shilpa Shukla, Shadab Kamal, Rajesh Sharma

Director:- Ajay Bahl

 

Can poor, orphan and adolescent children be lured in sex trade? Can the responsibility of family drag one to explore the unvisited path of sexual desire? How fatal can be the attraction of a juvenile towards a mellowed sex? ‘BA Pass’ tries to address these issues and uses bold, unbuttoned, and unzipped sex scenes (which is sure to grab eyeballs!) as a strong prop to tell the story of a misguided youth who gets caught on the wrong side of the faith and starts feeling being cared by the vicious ‘Sarita aunty’ (Did anybody hear savita bhabhi ? J) which then ends into getting caught in the dirty world of sex trade.

Based on a short story ‘Railway Aunty’ by writer Mohan Sikka, the story traverses the darker by lanes of human mind, and the protagonist’s dark and unsuccessful sexual pursuits which lands him in trouble represents the untamed horse of human desire  which if not controlled is bound to end up in doom.

Shadab Kamal as a lost teenage student who gets lured into the world of paid sex displays good potential but lags behind in expressions which were vital to take the film to the next level. Shipla Shukla as bitchy and confident Sarita is good and besides shedding clothes proves how good an actor she is. The film has its very little moments of smiles (narration of a daily soup story while ding- dong…or cursing the spouse during another round of ding-dong!). Deepti Naval’s role is little and is more indicative than of any real substance in the main plot. One does feel that the use of explicit scenes in the film are little unnecessary, but I believe the director wanted to keep it that way a little raw, a little brutal.

All in all, this is a dark piece of cinema, with no real message around it, and lacks great performances and does not transpire serious emotions. Go for it if you want to see the desi dose sex and sin!

 

 

Score Stack Up:-

+ ive:-  Different story and decent performances.

-  ive:-  slight low on comic offering, and little overdose of sex scenes.

 

Box Office, Paisa Vasool Rating:- 2.5 out of 5

Tanmay's Rating : 2.5 out of 5

 

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Scores Classifications- 

(5)  Very Good, Must Watch 

(4)   Good, Should Watch 

(3)   Not Bad;

(2)  One Time Watch; 

(1)  On your own risk;