Director: Ajay Bahl
B A Pass Movie Reviews ( Recommended 69 % )
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By NDTVMovies - Saibal Chatterjee
BA Pass is filmed with a keen sense of space and mood. Deviating from the written text in the climactic passages and in expanding a few of the minor characters and adding a couple of new ones, Bahl creates a noir ambience with the minimum of fuss.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By The Times Of India - Madhureeta Mukherjee
Debutant Ajay Bahl's film is dark and deeply disturbing. The subject boldly pulls off the cover on what happens behind closed (bedroom) doors of a society that thrives on pseudo morals and values. While the movie doesn't exploit eroticism, a little subtlety would have as much 'shock' value. The sex-scenes are too overused (though well-crafted), and after a point it looks repetitive.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By ApunKaChoice - Subhash K. Jha
"B.A. Pass" is a stark and brutal saga of seduction and betrayal. It is that unusual work of cinema which explores the darkest depths of the human consciousness without losing sight of the light that underscores life.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By Bollywood Hungama - Bollywood Hungama News Network
On the whole, B.A. PASS is a stark and brutal saga of seduction and betrayal that explores the darkest recesses of the human conscious and morality. Though gripping, you need a strong stomach to absorb this gritty and thought-provoking fare!
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By Indian Express - Shubhra Gupta
There is so little attention paid, in a thought-through manner, to the questions arising from marital emptiness and genteel, soul-sucking poverty, and urban decay that when a film like B.A.Pass comes along, you are willing it to be about all of this and more. Ajay Bahl's directorial debut lays out a plot with promise, but then belies it, by not giving us as much as it could, and should have.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By India Today - India Today Online
BA Pass is a gripping story of a young man's journey into the world of prostitution, the man being impoverished. Debutant director Ajay Bahl has created a gem, which shines as a work of art, showing life's most grim and harsh reality. This is a story of Mukesh's (Shadab Kamal) descent into prostitution, the journey being full of brutality and is too close to truth.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By Glamsham - Martin D'Souza
This is raw, unadulterated passion displayed with the confidence of a master story-teller. But the surprising part here is that this is Bahl's maiden venture. And that is difficult to believe.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By Nowrunning - Mansha Rastogi
Filmmaker Ajay Bahl relies heavily on shock value and hence right from the startling seduction sequences of Sarika to the gigolo angle, all of it demands your undivided attention. The film takes off brilliantly, the premise is quickly set and within no time this short 101 minute film gets into the crux of the story.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By Rediff - Raja Sen
The film works as a slow-burn, inescapable but constant and searing, and one that escalates to a high-flame only in the final act which tries, perhaps inevitably, to do a few too many things. In its quest to end with a bang, BA Pass becomes a suddenly stylized rush where plot and thought collide -- and collision isn’t crescendo, it is what drowns out crescendo.
B A Pass Movie Reviews Recommended By Deccan Chronicle - Khalid Mohamed
A transparent story demands a transparent style. Accordingly, Bahl’s direction and cinematography are like a pane of glass, with the described subjects clearly in view. Shot on authentic locations: Delhi’s Paharganj and on Sarai Rohilli and Barakhamba Road, the result is also remarkable for the performances of the consistently coiled up Shadab Kamal and the gutsy, no-inhibitions-barred Shilpa Shukla. In a cameo, Deepti Naval is reliably restrained.
