Baba (பாபா) 2002

Published on November 7, 2012 in Cinema

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Banner	Lotus International
Director	Suresh Krishna
Writer	Rajnikanth
Producer	Rajinikanth
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Orginal music	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	Chota K. Naidu
Film Editing	V. T. Vijayan
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Playback Singers	Shreeni, Shankar Mahadevan, Reena Bhardwaj, S.P. Balasubramaniam, Karthik, Sujatha, Jayachandran, Karthik

Character	Actor / Actress
Baba	Rajinikanth
Chamundeeswari	Manisha Koirala
Annamalai	Goundamani
Baba's maternal uncle	M. N. Nambiar
Ippo Ramaswamy	Ashish Vidyarthi
Baba's mother	Sujatha
Chamundeeswari's father	Vijayakumar
son of Ippo Ramaswamy	Riyaz Khan
Africa	Karunas
Divyananda Bharathi	Sayaji Shinde
Guruji	Amrish Puri
Neelambari (Guest appearance)	Ramya Krishnan
Suryaprakash (Guest appearance)	Nassar
MLA (Guest appearance)	Radha Ravi
special appearance	Sarath Babu

The film opens with the birth of Baba (Rajinikanth), who is a 'baba amsa sambhootudu'. Baba grows up as an atheist, hot-blooded guy and a Good Samaritan. His life style includes consuming alcohol, smoking beedi, chewing paan parag, His mother (Sujatha) and his maternal uncle (M. N. Nambiar) are ardent devotees of Mahavatar Babaji (the Baba who is supposed to be of 2000 years old and who live in Himalayas). Chamundeswari (Manisha Koirala) stays in the neighborhood of Baba and they fall in love.
Baba involves in a physical feud with the son of a state minister Ippo Ramaswamy (Ashish Vidyarthi). Ramaswamy demolishes the colony of Baba. When Baba is about to go to fight with Ramaswamy, Baba's mother urges him to maintain calm and rebuild lost colony it by working hard. Baba joins as a labor in a shop and earns money. Chamundeswari tells Baba that she is not willing to marry a daily labor. Then Baba realizes that so far he has been only answerable for his mother. And if he gets married then he has to live for wife and kids. And he would become answerable to them. He would not be able to help for the society as he might become selfish after marriage. He feels that prema (love) is maya (illusion). At that time, a weird looking sadhu comes to him and tell him that its time for getting enlightened. Baba is taken to Himalayas where he meets the real Baba. He gets frightened by the atmosphere and wishes to return back to Chennai. Then real Baba grants 7 wishes to Baba. He can use any of these wishes anytime he wishes to utilize. Baba is sent back to Chennai. Baba still could not believe that he went to Himalayas met real Baba. He uses that mantra to test the power by wishing a flying kite to come and fall in his hand. He waits for a few seconds and decide that it was all his illusion. Later the kite follows him to his house and falls on his hand. He feels that its coincidental and tries the mantra again to a different kite and wishes it to fall on his lap. He goes into his house and closes all the possible entries in the house. But the kite makes its way and falls on his lap. That is where he realizes that Baba is real and God exists in the world. He still has five more wishes left. And the minister Ramaswamy comes to know about it. They call a tantrik (Amrish Puri) to foil Baba's magic powers.
Baba spends 3 more wishes for trivial things. The sixth wish is used to revive a patient fighting for his life. Ramaswamy's boss Purushottaman wants to become the permanent chief minister of the state using Baba's boons. He also tries to kill Baba but this attempt fails due to the blessings of Babaji. The final wish is then used to install an unselfish chief minister for the state. Once his wishes are used up, Baba has the choice of living with Babaji at the Himalayas or returning to his life in the material world. But when Baba is just about to ascend to the Himalayas, the villains kill the loyal chief minister. Baba turns back and the film ends with the tag "To be continued...." .