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The transformation of Chillum Pehelwan (Abhimanyu Singh) into Global Baba (the name is inspired by a hair-cutting saloon) with the help of another history-sheeter posing as a holy man (Pankaj Tripathi) is instant and seamless. In short order, Global Baba occupies a chunk of forest land on which he sets up his ashram and dispenses nonsensical advice to the easily hypnotised masses. None of the devotees blinks at Baba’s lurid sartorial sense (he wears silken nighties and a flowing wig) or his trappings of wealth. The movie is low on psychology, and misses the opportunity to explain why the faithful might actually appreciate, rather than be repulsed by, their religious leader’s love for lucre and political power.
Global Baba soon becomes a threat to Home Minister Gullu Yadav (Akhilendra Mishra). Police chief Jacob (Ravi Kishan) takes more time than necessary to realise that the heavy-lidded guru of banality is the same thug he had apprehended a months before. Once Jacob and the minister are on to Baba’s game, they try to play their own, which involves gullible journalist Bhavna (Sandeepa Dhar), on whom whom Tripathi’s Damru dotes. Sanjay Mishra’s Bhola Pandit is among the few sane characters who sees through Global Baba’s chicanery.
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