Baby: Kind of crawls mostly and stands up almost at the end
This seems to be a visible trend with most first time directors. Their first film has the energy, freshness and all the years and desperations of waiting to reflect in their film, being captured so well. But, moment they start to dwell in their second film onwards, there are the gaffes and the visible compromises that shows. Neeraj Pandey is one among them. His A Wednesday was taut and classic to watch, but with Special 26 and now Baby he is gradually making way for the abyss and that is sad. Farah Khan, John Mathew Mathan, Dibakar Banerji (he somehow could manage for surviving a longer period of time).. are some of the examples who have fallen in this trap. Why is that the first film they make, is right at the top and then they start floundering? Anyway, coming back to Baby. The film's first half drags and there are many a moments that dilute the sequence. Especially, the Akshay-and his wife angle, which is stretched and drab, Danny's workplace does not seem a a typi...