Baby
2015 · Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Original language: Hindi
- action
- thriller
The story
A nascent elite team of the Indian intelligence system perpetually strives to detect and eliminate terrorists and their plots. Officer Ajay leads his team to destroy one such potentially lethal ploy in their biggest operation yet.
What it’s like
Hard-edged and brisk, with dim government offices lit by fluorescent tube light and hotel corridors, safehouses and crowded city streets rendered in a cool, desaturated palette that shifts to blue-grey night. The camera stays close and kinetic during raids and surveillance sequences, cutting quickly between wide establishing shots of sprawling cities and tight handheld views of men moving through doorways. Sound is driven by a pulsing, percussive score that swells under action beats and drops away to tense silence during waiting stretches, phone calls and map-table briefings. The mood is taut, procedural and urgent, a cool-headed thriller with a patriotic undercurrent and little room to breathe. Its people are a team of disciplined operatives who slowly reveal the cost of their work behind a professional surface. Violence is frequent and sudden, including gunfights, explosions and some bloody close-quarters combat, with brief moments of fear and menace but no sexual content. It suits a late-night watch for viewers who enjoy espionage set pieces and commando-style action and can handle sustained, gritty intensity.
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