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Devoid of motherly affection since childhood, Gaurav Rane (Akshaye Khanna) thinks of his father Janardan Vishwambhar Rane (Paresh Rawal) as playing the role of both his parents. Besides Gaurav, Janardan has another son named Chirag (Manoj Joshi) who lives separately with his wife and sometimes comes to meet Janardan, if only to remind Janardan that he has another son. Settling the characters down, the story reveals how Gaurav, the CEO of Magnum Moll, takes childlike care of his father. As the story unfolds, we get to know that Janardan has a friend called Madhav Mathur (Om Puri), who freakily tries to get married and, at every attempt, he gets caught by Inspector Bhavani (Archana Puran Singh). To make matters worse, Janardan also gets arrested along with his friend. Each time, Gaurav has to come and set his father free and with each such incident, Gaurav’s hatred for Mathur increases. In the flow of incidents, Gaurav comes to meet his old classmate, Shikha (Genelia d’Souza) who lives in Mumbai with her teacher, Anuradha Joshi (Shovna). The story rolls on and reaches a spot where Shikha and Gaurav smell the love story being cooked between Janardan and Anuradha. Keeping in mind the emotions of his father, Gaurav gets him married to Anuradha. Shikha’s father, Mr. Kapoor (Naseeruddin Shah), who has been completely against Shikha and Gaurav’s relationship only because of Janardan’s affair with Anuradha, agrees to Shikha’s wedding with Gaurav.
The story may sound good but bad presentation mars the chance of a hit. Comedy King Priyadarshan fails to plot a natural laugh riot and the movie ends up looking more like a one-act drama than a complete film. Besides the bungalows, Moll, Shikha’s house and the beautiful frames of Kerala, there is nothing else that should be recapped. Akshaye and Paresh have enough chemistry in their father-son relationship. Genelia looks attractive in a few scenes but her dialogue delivery is not up to par. Even Rajpal looks quite frozen in his character. The character of Madhav Mathur maybe new in Om Puri’s career graph but it creates nothing different.
Ultimately, Mere Baap Pehle Aap leaves one with the feeling that Priyadarshan has also started following Ram Gopal Varma’s footsteps. He has given loads of hits and has banked enough expectations from the audience. It would be better if the Comedy King would also understand the matter and take it seriously.