Baby review: This emotional love story will tug at your heartstrings

Entertainment By Prakash Pecheti 14/07/2023 Read the article

However bitter an experience one may feel, first love undoubtedly takes a special place in our hearts. But this Baby’s first love will tug at your heartstrings.

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Baby aka Vaishnavi (Vaishnavi Chaitanya), lives much of her childhood in the bylanes of Indiramma Basthi, in Hyderabad. She falls for Anand (Anand Deverakonda).

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Vaishu takes a big leap by fetching an engineering seat in academics, but Anand flunks Class 10 and starts earning as an auto driver. But their unflinching love for each other continues

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Then Viraj Ashwin (Viraj Ashwin), her batchmate in engineering, starts wooing her with costly presents. Will she accept his proposal? What’s happens to Anand forms the story of Baby.

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Baby takes its sweet time to establish the characters. The screenplay gets pacy in a few portions but again, cliched dialogues keep bothering you intermittently.

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Vaishnavi Chaitanya turns an overnight star not because of the story, but because of her performance. Vaishnavi puts up a mature performance outdoing both her male co-stars.

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Anand as an over-protective and aggressive youngster shows a refinement in his acting skills, when compared to his previous movies.

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Director Sai Rajesh wanted Baby to weave the story along the lines of his critically-acclaimed film Colour Photo (2020). However, Baby doesn’t even come nearer to it.

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