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Bollywood takes on the Robin Williams and Francis Ford Coppola film Jack - and the result turns out to be excruciating
Wendy Ide
The Times
Wendy Ide
The Times

That 67-year-old icon of Indian cinema Amitabh Bachchan stars as a 13-year-old boy with a premature aging disorder in Paa, a Bollywood take on the Robin Williams/Francis Ford Coppola film Jack. The result is excruciating, one of the rare cases in which Williams at his mugging, mawkish worst would still be a blessed relief.