Baabul
2006, NR, 90 min.
Directed by Ravi Chopra, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, John Abraham, Om Puri.

Not reviewed at press time. After his son’s death, an Indian father-in-law tries to get his daughter-in-law remarried – a fairly radical notion in a country where, traditionally, widows’ lives end when their husbands’ do.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.