Ayushaman bhava!
Ayushmann has mastered the art of finding humour and poetry in the mundanity of life and its problems. Be it in a movie where women are trying hard to conceive and he, becoming the superhero to help them with his superpower called the sperm donation (Vicky Donor) or he is having a hard time to perform the act of making love (Shubh Mangal Savdhaan) or he, having a harder time, accepting that his parents can become parents again (Badhaai ho). He has nailed every role with his acting, singing and mainly, his dialect. It would come as no surprise that he has done it again with Bala.
The good old ingredients: a middle class family, a dominating leading lady and mashed with a problem that plagues us. In this case, hairfall. His life that alters after his hairfall problem begins (his transfer to another department, his breakup, and his rejection at proposals). The strands hugging the comb, tufts of hair in the gutter and the 100s of tips and tricks that he tries ( many with a bald patch will relate to it). Despite his virtues, the gaze from his shining pan of head doesnt change things for him. While the film is humourous and its take on Male baldness is bold.. it has also stoked the burning issue of skin color that many women and men grapple with.
I liked Javed Jaffry's role and his constant reminder that we are still a Male-dominated society that doesnt care how a man looks like as long as he is able to hide it till he gets married. We all know this but when they highlight it with a Uttar Pradesh accent, we strongly abhor its presence. While Bhumi is not a strong choice owing to her skin shade, her acting will compensate for it (still it is a parody of the whole idea of choosing an actor of a light shade to play the role of a dark-skinned woman.. but isn't it the same with Ayushmann too.. he is not bald in real life either!).
What I thoroughly enjoyed the most was Ayushmann's mimicry of various actors and his efforts in stand up comedy. With so many stand up artists who are trying to make it big, I'm glad Ayushmann did this. As a marketing whiz, his speeches were ebbing with the tides of Bollywood jazz and the expectations of society. But in the end, he leaves us in good spirtis: why should anyone change? (Badalna hi kya hain?).
Despite all the perfect ingredients and the right dialogues--the dialogues with his father, blaming him for his gene pool or badgering his brother and his hairdresser--I still felt that Ayushmann should take up roles like Article 15. Even, offbeat movies becomes a cliche and I hope he doesnt make him the Akshay Kumar of Offbeat films.
The good old ingredients: a middle class family, a dominating leading lady and mashed with a problem that plagues us. In this case, hairfall. His life that alters after his hairfall problem begins (his transfer to another department, his breakup, and his rejection at proposals). The strands hugging the comb, tufts of hair in the gutter and the 100s of tips and tricks that he tries ( many with a bald patch will relate to it). Despite his virtues, the gaze from his shining pan of head doesnt change things for him. While the film is humourous and its take on Male baldness is bold.. it has also stoked the burning issue of skin color that many women and men grapple with.
I liked Javed Jaffry's role and his constant reminder that we are still a Male-dominated society that doesnt care how a man looks like as long as he is able to hide it till he gets married. We all know this but when they highlight it with a Uttar Pradesh accent, we strongly abhor its presence. While Bhumi is not a strong choice owing to her skin shade, her acting will compensate for it (still it is a parody of the whole idea of choosing an actor of a light shade to play the role of a dark-skinned woman.. but isn't it the same with Ayushmann too.. he is not bald in real life either!).
What I thoroughly enjoyed the most was Ayushmann's mimicry of various actors and his efforts in stand up comedy. With so many stand up artists who are trying to make it big, I'm glad Ayushmann did this. As a marketing whiz, his speeches were ebbing with the tides of Bollywood jazz and the expectations of society. But in the end, he leaves us in good spirtis: why should anyone change? (Badalna hi kya hain?).
Despite all the perfect ingredients and the right dialogues--the dialogues with his father, blaming him for his gene pool or badgering his brother and his hairdresser--I still felt that Ayushmann should take up roles like Article 15. Even, offbeat movies becomes a cliche and I hope he doesnt make him the Akshay Kumar of Offbeat films.
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