{"id":5651,"date":"2016-04-09T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2016-04-09T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:07:40","slug":"bala-review-amar-kaushik-ayushmann-khurrana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5651","title":{"rendered":"Bala Review: A Simplistic Comedy that Remains Enjoyable Despite its Bald Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A<\/span>mar Kaushik\u2019s Bala <\/span><\/i>is modelled primarily on everything that worked in Amar Kaushik\u2019s <\/span>Stree<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a film whose unprecedented success catapulted him into a feted category of breakout directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to last year\u2019s horror comedy, at the centre of Bala\u2019s<\/span><\/i> proceedings is a confidently meek man from small-town India wrestling his <\/span>insecurities<\/span><\/a> to land a shot at love. The film\u2019s writing (screenplay and dialogues are by Niren Bhatt) lends itself to a similar observation specific comedy that flits between slapstick one-liners and mining humour from helpless situations. Its lead is <\/span>Ayushmann Khurrana<\/span><\/a>, practically a fraternal twin of <\/span>Rajkummar Rao<\/span><\/a> (both actors have carved their own syntax in mainstream Hindi cinema). Aparshakti Khurrana and Abhishek Banerjee, the duo responsible for much of <\/span>Stree\u2019s<\/span><\/i> laughs show up in <\/span>Bala<\/span><\/i>. Like in <\/span>Stree,<\/span><\/i> even here, the combined efficiency of the excellent supporting cast \u2013 Saurabh Shukla, Seema Pahwa (sporting an inexplicably horrid moustache), and Javed Jaffrey \u2013 make the film work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the universe of Bala<\/span><\/i>, these additions have largely delightful upshots, although their novelty is diluted by how evidently they come across as repetitions. This templatisation reveal something crucial: Hindi filmmakers are far more willing to adopt shortcuts to replicate the 100-crore response that met a previously successful film than in wholeheartedly investing themselves to imbibe the originality that caused it. It\u2019s probably why much of <\/span>Bala<\/span><\/i> has a seen-before filter to it. The film\u2019s plot about premature baldness shares similarities with <\/span>Ujda Chaman<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Gone Kesh,<\/span><\/i> two other releases of the year. Its larger theme of self-acceptance isn\u2019t the most fresh takeaway in 2019. The joyful camaraderie between Banerjee and Khurrana \u2013 especially the scenes in the neighbourhood barber shop \u2013 remind you of <\/span>Shah Rukh Khan<\/span><\/a> and Vinay Pathak from <\/span>Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi<\/span><\/i>. And Khurrana\u2019s casting, although apt, naturally comes with its own hangover of an earlier Khurrana performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set in Kanpur, the film revolves around 25-year-old Balmukund Shivkumar (Khurrana) \u2013 nicknamed Bala \u2013 a sales agent who sells fairness creams to dark-skinned<\/span><\/a> women. Ironically, Bala himself is shackled by worries of inadequacy: His neighbourhood charmer status, once reliant on his head full of floppy hair, is on the wane as he starts developing bald spots and retreating into a shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something unimaginably tender about how Khurrana, a self-assured actor, goes about playing Bala\u2019s unlikeability, even tempering his bouts of cockiness with a lining of helplessness. Desperate to divorce his \u201closer\u201d status, Bala embraces questionable remedies, which include raw onions, egg yolks, and even cow dung, but when they fail to have any effect on his hair follicles, he takes to wearing a wig. Trouble starts when he falls in love with Pari (a sensational Yami Gautam<\/span><\/a>), a supermodel who profits off her looks as a <\/span>TikTok<\/span><\/a> influencer in Lucknow. Even as they plan to get married, he continues hiding the truth about himself from her, a deceit that forms the crux of the film\u2019s conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bala<\/em> is at its strongest when it takes a jab at Bollywood for dumping expectations of aspirational masculinity on middle-class Indian men. <\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bala<\/i> is not the first film to tackle the fragility of small-town Indian masculinity (Khurrana\u2019s whole filmography is a worthy rival) and given Hindi cinema\u2019s predilection towards social messaging, it certainly won\u2019t be the last to do so. But in the same fashion as the underrated <\/span>Dum Laga Ke Haisha<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>Bala<\/span><\/i> stands out for packaging the seriousness of these issues with a touch that doesn\u2019t mock the ignorance of small-town India. Instead, it speaks to their anxieties in a language they will understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A worthy testament is the film\u2019s understanding of the relationship that small-town India shares with social media: As Bala<\/span><\/i> posits,\u00a0 people across small towns not only depend on the internet’s validation to derive self-confidence, but it also affords them space for expression. Kaushik cleverly uses TikTok as a device to both pay homage to Hindi cinema while dismantling its tropes, and as a means of communication between the film\u2019s lovers. The sequence where Kaushik charts out the trajectory of Pari and Bala\u2019s <\/span>relationship<\/span><\/a> through a series of TikTok videos are winsome (They put up individual videos at first and then move on to collaborations). Khurrana and Gautam are a hoot together \u2013 the scene where he shoots a TikTok video to apologise to her for lying about his baldness is as inventive as Gautam\u2019s flurry of overreaction when she finds out the truth. The charms of this attention to detail to small-town intricacies is sacrificed whenever <\/span>Bala<\/span><\/i> slips into preachy territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the film. Kaushik parallels Bala\u2019s unhappiness with the self-confidence of Latika, his dark-skinned childhood friend (Bhumi Pednekar<\/span><\/a>) who refuses to second-guess her worth. It\u2019s admirable how Kaushik uses their equation to unpack the double-standards that allows most Indian men to throw tantrums about their inadequacies and contrasts it with the shame that women have to bear for the perceived lack in them. Self-pity, the film convincingly argues, is a luxury that only men can afford. Yet, its brief effect is undone by the fact that <\/span>Bala<\/span><\/i>, which rallies against placing a premium on fairness, indulges in the exact same crime by covering Pednekar in soot to make her look dark-skinned (Interestingly, Pednekar ditches the brownface for the film\u2019s item song). <\/span>I<\/span>t\u2019s a move that like <\/span>Saand Ki Aankh\u2019s<\/span><\/i> ageism<\/span><\/a>, is telling of the hypocrisy of Hindi filmmakers who want a pat on the back for confronting \u201cissues\u201d without really understanding what it really entails. In the film, dark skin is merely a “look”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is also Bala\u2019s<\/span><\/i> biggest letdown: It falters when it tries speaking for others. None of its grandstanding ties up in the end. When compared to the violence that women have long faced because of the society\u2019s obsession with fair complexions, the film\u2019s argument about the difficulties of male <\/span>baldness<\/span><\/a> seem trivial. It doesn\u2019t help that Kaushik is frequently unable to to separate the ills of patriarchy from that of unrealistic beauty standards, almost implying as if the social discrimination meted out in both cases are on equal footing, which feels unconvincing if not inaccurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even then, there can be a case made for sidestepping this lack of self-awareness. Kaushik consistently displays a knack of tackling grand ideas, even if with varying results. His gaze that places men as both victims and perpetrators of their own doing, results in the film\u2019s best moments \u2013 a father-son showdown and a sibling tiff acquires greater meaning. Bala <\/span><\/i>is at its strongest when it takes a jab at Bollywood for dumping expectations of aspirational masculinity on <\/span>middle-class<\/span><\/a> Indian men while simultaneously critiquing the dangers that male insecurity have on Indian women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the kind of attempt that at least suggests a reversal and starts off by putting Indian men under the scanner. In one scene, an ageing man expresses his gratitude to his devoted wife for not leaving him due to his baldness. And in another, a young woman<\/span><\/a> refuses to make do with a bald husband, expressing her desire to be with someone who can rival her good looks. In doing so, <\/span>Bala<\/span><\/i> quietly underlines how incapable men are when it comes to withstanding the cruelties of beauty standards that they have heaped on women for centuries. Only if the rest of the film stuck to that memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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