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2025 · Telugu · 1h 52m
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Filmi Score
Mixed
3 reviews · provisional
43
2 mixed1 weak
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Critics say Baapu's rural family drama has rooted performances, music and cinematography going for it, but flat, predictable writing and unearned sentimentality keep it an engaging, underwhelming watch rather than a satisfying one.
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Summary
Baapu (2025, Telugu) has a Filmi Score of 43 from 3 critic reviews, and streams on Hulu in the US.
Mallanna's father decides to trade his life to secure relief funds for the family, but forgets. Funding for his final days, how will they make the ends meet?
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Mallanna's father decides to trade his life to secure relief funds for the family, but forgets. Funding for his final days, how will they make the ends meet?
Baapu (2025, Telugu) has a Filmi Score of 43 from 3 critic reviews, and streams on Hulu in the US.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
Cinema Express finds Baapu's dark-comic premise about a family plotting against its patriarch promising but undercut by sentimentality and a… Read it there →
Thyview calls Baapu an "ok-ish" film about a debt-ridden farmer family, praising the rooted feel, performances, music and raw visuals but faulting… Watch it there →
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 3 readings; 1 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Baapu is streaming on OTT: JioHotstar (India) and Hulu (the US). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Baapu?
Baapu has a Filmi Score of 43 (Mixed), the mean of 3 readings of critic reviews, one per review. The score is provisional until at least five reviews are read. Readings run from 35 (123telugu) to 48 (Cinema Express). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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