VK Productions and Shining Moon Pictures’ Little Baby (UA) is the story of a father and his adult daughter.
Dushyant (Priyanshu Chatterjee) is a senior police officer in Dehradun. He is trying to get to the root of the flesh trade in Dehradun town. His world comes crashing down when his own college-going daughter, Sasha (Gulnaz Siganporia), is among those rounded up by the police in a raid to break into the prostitution racket.
Sasha is unrelenting. She is a rebel and a non-conformist. Even after being caught red-handed, she is neither ashamed of herself nor repentant. Seeing this, Dushyant finds himself so helpless that he has to seek psychiatric intervention. But when that does not help him much, a dialogue between him and Sasha starts to have a therapeutic effect.
Shekhar S. Jha, Rashid Iqbal and Siddharth Saigal have written a story which may be fresh but it does not have commercial value. Their screenplay is weak and relies on clichés more than anything else. Resultantly, the drama fails to move the audience emotionally. The trio’s dialogues are below the mark.
Priyanshu Chatterjee is okay as police officer Dushyant. Gulnaz Siganporia makes an average debut as Sasha. Shivani Mahajan, Ravi Khanna, Vijay Raj and the other artistes provide routine support.
Shekhar S. Jha’s direction is weak. Vickey Prasad’s music is hardly engaging. Lyrics (Shellee and Satwika Jha) are alright. Rajiv Dinkar’s choreography hardly impresses. Sameer Phaterpekar’s background music is fair. Aniket Khandagale’s cinematography is quite nice. Aseem Sinha’s editing is okay.
On the whole, Little Baby is such a dull fare that it will go almost completely unnoticed.
Released on 27-9-’19 at Gem (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru View Finder. Publicity & opening: weak. ……Also released all over. Opening was dismal everywhere.