Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri review:
Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor were a formidable pair as comic villains throughout the '80s particularly in Jeetendra's South productions. It is rumoured that they came as a package deal where Kader Khan would write the movie dialogues and act along with Shakti Kapoor for a combined fixed price. Hanif Samir's Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri was the pinnacle of their success where the entire story revolved around them while Jackie Shroff and Aditya Panscholi were reduced to supporting cast!!
Playing the baap-beta duo, Kader Khan is the 'chor' baap who teaches his son Shakti to follow his inglorious profession. From selling off an unauthorized plot to promising fake employment in Dubai, their modus operandi makes for some hilarious sequences which are still most watched videos on YouTube. Later, the voluptuous Jamuna causes a breakup between baap-beta when she literally lands up in Kader Khan's lap and he loses his old 'dil' to her. In another crazy moment, Shakti Kapoor is married off to a street dog in a state of daze.."Tumhari shaadi ek kutiya se ki aur usse tumhe chatwa bhi diya!!"
Baap Numbri... is fun, infact its lol inducing most of the time. I had a blast with my school friends when we saw it on first Sunday afternoon show at Badal Bijlee Cinema, Matunga. The movie still cheers me up whenever I watch it.
Regards,
Sumeet Nadkarni.
