{"id":2624,"date":"2016-05-01T22:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:38:12","slug":"bunty-aur-babli-shaad-ali-masala-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"Bunty Aur Babli: They Don\u2019t Make Masala Films Like That Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>ack in 2005, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/30-years-of-shahenshah-amitabh-bachchan-vigilante\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amitabh Bachchan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> collaborated with his son, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/inside-abhishek-bachchans-phone\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhishek Bachchan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the latter\u2019s rumoured flame at the time, Rani Mukherji, on two vastly different but highly successful films. There was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/ram-gopal-varma-sarkar-3-rgv-bollywood-aag-satya-naach-hansal-mehta-anurag-kashyap-madhur-bhandarkar-company\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ram Gopal Varma\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stirring <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarkar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where Big B essayed a fictionalised version of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and Abhishek played his upright son. And, then there was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/sanjay-leela-bhansali-padmavati-deepika-shahid-karni-sena-ranveer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> evocative <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where he played a mentor to a blind-and-deaf <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/hichki-movie-review-rani-mukherji-tourette-syndrome\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rani Mukherji<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later that year, all three of them came together for the casting coup of the decade: Shaad Ali\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Not only was it the first reel-life pairing of the Bachchan men, (Sarkar had yet to release), but was also padded up with an unforgettable item number by a saucy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/happy-birthday-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-abhishek-bachhan-amitabh-bachchan-sunheri-dhoom-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aishwarya Rai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was this ability to take a gimmick \u2013 like having Amitabh and Abhishek in the same frame or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/invisibles\/girl-behind-kaala-chasma-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">item number<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 and devising a desi Bonnie and Clyde crime caper that defined Shaad Ali\u2019s second directorial outing. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which completes 13 years this week, should be remembered for a lot of things: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy\u2019s deliciously loop-worthy soundtrack, Amitabh Bachchan having the most fun in a supporting role in years, Shaad Ali rekindling Rani Mukherji\u2019s vivacity after reinvigorating it in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saathiya,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Aki Narula affording it the most dramatic, outlandish fashion. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, what it should be lauded for \u2013 despite its nearly three-hour-long-runtime \u2013 is how shameless it was in being a tribute to fluffy mainstream masala filmmaking. With an ensemble cast that boasted of stalwarts like Prem Chopra, Puneet Issar, Raj Babbar, Sanjay Mishra, and Ranjeet, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">infectious charm lay in being just the right amount of OTT. In fact, the film might have been the last instance of a successful tribute to the masala genre before it got hijacked by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/salman-khan-jail-jodhpur\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Salman Khan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and lot, and was reduced to nonsensical garishness.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Bunty Aur Babli<\/em> also offers a thoughtful commentary on the dichotomy of India \u2013 where life in the small towns is alien to the mechanics of the big cities<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the film, Abhishek plays Rakesh Trivedi, a wide-eyed resident of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/mumbai-allahabad-india-beauty-parlours-salon-feminism-safe-space-female-bonding\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> small-town <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fursatganj (a place where people have \u201ctoo much free time\u201d) who is adamant to defeat the small-town mentality of his parents, relatives, and acquaintances to emerge as the next Tata or Birla. So, when his ticket-collector father (Raj Babbar in fine form) insists he go for a railways interview to settle for the same nine-to-five life replete with monotonous drudgery as him, Rakesh flees. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there\u2019s Rani\u2019s Vimmi Saluja, who perfects the small-town iteration of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/10-years-of-jab-we-met-imitiaz-ali-kareena-kapoor-khan-shahid-kapoor-bollywood-ratlam-hotel-decent\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kareena Kapoor\u2019s<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/poo-kareena-kapoor-kabhi-khushi-kabhi-gham-k3g-karan-johar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K3G<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Sample her opening line: \u201cAgar apne sundarta ki pooja karna pagalpan hai, toh haan main pagal hoon.\u201d Like any other girl growing up with a healthy dose of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/jeetendra-sexual-assault-me-too-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bollywood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aspirations, Vimmi too dreams of being a part of the circus. She wants to go from being the person who wears cheap knockoffs inspired by her favourite actresses to being the celebrity whose clothes get replicated by the umpteen tailoring shops across India. Her parents on the other hand, thwart her dreams of becoming Miss India by demanding she become Mrs to a head clerk in Pankhinagar. Naturally, she responds by fleeing. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A chance encounter in a bathroom at a dingy train station, leads to their identities getting a makeover as the conmen Bunty Aur Babli. If you pay enough attention, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also turns into a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/part-time-businessman-full-time-gaurakshak\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vigilante<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> justice film at some level. Its leads are, after all, exacting revenge not from random people, but from a society that didn\u2019t think enough of their dreams.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was also one of the first few mainstream films that articulated the growing aspirations, claustrophobia, and frustrations that countless youths from small towns internalise. Unlike their parents, these youngsters want to take advantage of their country\u2019s socioeconomic transformations and don\u2019t want to believe that anything is out of their reach. Most importantly, the film also offers a thoughtful commentary on the dichotomy of India \u2013 where life in the small towns is alien to the mechanics of the big cities. \u00a0Come to think of it, it&#8217;s hard not to think of Bunty and Babli as the early predecessors of Shruti and Bittoo from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/bitoo-shruti-band-baaja-baaraat-ranveer-singh-anushka-sharma-bollywood\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Band Baaja Baaraat<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1527509966.jpg\" alt=\"Bunty aur Babli\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34945\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Not only was <em>Bunty Aur Babli<\/em> the first reel-life pairing of the Bachchan men, but was also padded up with an unforgettable item number by a saucy Aishwarya Rai.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Yash Raj Films<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After christening themselves Bunty Aur Babli, the duo wreak havoc with their scams across the country. Their first (and coolest) conspiracy involves tricking an auburn-wigged investor played by Sanjay Mishra. The funniest part of the sequence is when Babli dances with him to \u201cRamba ho\u201d, while Bunty prepares to make away with the cash. The hilarity of the scene comes from how clueless Mishra is, when left dancing by Babli, on the pretext of going to the bathroom and how easily she nails the charming seductress bit.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They get away with almost every <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/nirav-modi-pnb-scam-kuch-ho-sakta-hai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, irrespective of how illogical or convenient it might seem. The best fraud (hilarious to this day) is where the duo, acting as Tourism Minister Phoolsakhiji and her clerk give the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/taj-mahal-monument-dalmia-bharat\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taj Mahal <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on a five-year-lease to the seventh richest man in the world (whose fiance wants to get married at the monument) for a whopping 250 million dollars. This happens amidst a protest march that reads \u201cMain meri biwi se pareshaan hoon\u201d and where protesters have no idea what their demands are. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It helps that Abhishek and Rani share the kind of electric chemistry that lights up the screen and laces the film\u2019s unrealistic loopholes with irreverent fun. Even Bachchan\u2019s dizzyingly in-your-face portrayal of the multi-accented (there\u2019s a smattering of Haryanvi, Bihari, and Allahabadi) cop Dashrath Singh, who is razor-focused in his intention to nab them single-handedly lends the proceedings an energetic turn. Take Big B\u2019s introduction scene for instance; he lights a beedi with a counterfeit note that\u2019s been set on fire. It\u2019s as nonsensical as it is apt. The father-son meeting may happen only two hours into the film, but it\u2019s easily its best part \u2014 the bit where Amitabh passionately reveals his unrequited <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/newness-nicholas-hoult-laia-costa-drake-doremous-dating-apps-relationships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">love affair<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a complete hoot, as is him threatening to run over someone unless they provide him with information. Plus, who can forget his cries of &#8220;Madam, I&#8217;m your only Adam!&#8221;? After all, it became the pickup line of countless lovelorn youths.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film\u2019s seemingly pat ending that comes with its own plot twist is the biggest evidence of how <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has no intention of straying away from its obvious masala roots. Before the age of socially conscious filmmaking dawned on us, it was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bunty Aur Babli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the second-highest grossing film of 2005 that reminded Bollywood that an entire film can be made on just one word: fun.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the age of socially conscious filmmaking dawned on us, Shaad Ali&#8217;s Bunty Aur Babli, that completes 13 years this week, reminded Bollywood that it\u2019s possible to make an entire film on just one word: 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