Bloody Hell!!

Let's face it!, Babel is not meant for Indian Audience. At least people like me, who enjoy watching Dulhe Raja and No Entry.
"Babel is a great movie"
"It has been nominated for 5 Oscars", many recommendations; enough for me to hop on.

But all those so called Babel Fans forgot to mention that, this movie is been narrated in 4 different languages.

I literally suffered watching this movie (as much as I did watching Tashan, Via Darjeeling, Rama Rama kya hain Drama...) No, Babel do not belong to that league of cinema. But yeah It makes you feel like a loser. As the characters from the movie are going through hell, so I am, as there were no subtitles support for the movie.

What's Babel means? uncle wiki says:
Ba·bel / Pronunciation Key - Pronunciation[bey-buhl, bab-uhl]
–noun
1.an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place.
2.(usually lowercase) a confused mixture of sounds or voices.
3.(usually lowercase) a scene of noise and confusion.

So I take it as "a scene of noise and confusion. " because all that was happening on the screen was sheer noise to me and yeah, confusing too.

Why am I so pissed of?
Because I don't know Mexican, I do not know Japanese, I don't know Moroccan and yeah not even sign language (despite watching Black and Khamoshi many times, I am still not good in it.) Every time you misses something in movie, Director scores the point.
Here, the makers simply refuse\deny\decline\rebuff\disinterested to have subtitles for the movie. I just hope they have equally valid\acceptable\justifiable reason to do so.

Was it that hard to understand?
Yes or rather I am too dumb for this movie. I never heard when they mentioned about the locations. All this time, I was trying so hard to have a hold on movie and paid so much attention to it, that I felt exhausted towards the end.

What's wrong with the movie?
Babel is the movie, which works on Theory of Estimation. Those who don't know, Estimation is the calculated approximation of a result which is usable even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or noisy.

So what is the incomplete input data here?
There are 4 stories happening across the different strata of the world.

First an American Couple on a vacation (Yeah I got this right :-)) in Morocco (I missed this one, and Director scored a point)

Same place, a family living in remote deserted land quite away from civilization, two teenagers from that family, looking after their goats, suddenly their uncle offers them a gun to guard their goats from fox (??or wolf or tiger or avid non-vegetarian_estimation in full flow)

Just for curiosity sake (or to have a good hands on experience), one of the guy shoots a gun on passing bus. The bullet hits a lady in her shoulder. The terrified teens decides to run away from there and hide their gun in rocks.

Then there are two American Kids staying with their Mexican nanny (I got this one right too, wooppie!) One day nanny gets a call from kid's father that they (American parents) will be late and she needs to look after them for some more time. As Mexican nanny needs to attends wedding of her son (My Guess !! that guy could have been her grandson\cousin\x-boyfriend _Keep Guessing as Director scores one more point)

One more story of deaf and dumb girl, happening somewhere in busting city of Japan (My friends say that they did mention that it is a Japan, I could not get it). A sexually frustrated girl craving for attention.

All these stories woven smartly around a single gun and bullet. BABEL is spectrum of human nature specially how they behave under the trauma. We have a helpless American couple in totally alien land, An illegal immigrant lady from Mexico, trying her level best to survive along with two kids, two Moroccan kids found themselves in a situation they would have never dreamt of and a Japanese nymphomaniac going through an intense turmoil.

Initially it looks like all these 4 stories happening in parallel, but NO. Towards the end you realise some of them are serially arranged.

BABEL brutally displays that how a single bullet can affect many lives at a time? It creates the drama, ambiance and drags you into their turmoil. It is a must watch experience if you know 4 languages mentioned above. Or at least try to get a CD having subtitles. If not we still have option of watching BABUL...