If anything sells in India, weddings will top the list.
Band, Baaja and Baaraat, the three irreplaceable components of a typical
North
Indian wedding make the title of this recent sleeper hit movie from
Delhi boy –
Maneesh Sharma and his script writer Habib Faisal. I had no clue it was
Habib
Faisal who wrote BBB before I googled, although it strongly reminded me
of Do Dooni Char – another one of Faisal’s scripts. No wonder.
BBB does not
approach the wedding using the tried and tested Bollywood formula where
the whole movie is a giant excuse to showcase hero-heroine's wedding. In
BBB the spotlight is shifted towards the back, behind the scenes of a
planned wedding - a role traditionally played by parents but fast being taken
over by professional wedding planners.
Like Do Dooni Char, Band Baaja Baaraat is a tribute to Dilli. Dilli 6 may have Dilli in the title and Chandni Chowk’s galis as shooting locales, but Band Baaja Baaraat and Do Dooni Char live and breathe Delhi. Punjabi infused Hindi delivered effortlessly by Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh – the actors who play the two main characters of Shruti Kakkar and Bittoo Sharma, lifts you from your couch and puts you right into a Janakpuri kind of day.
The film is also an acknowledgement to a new brand of Indian - the young entrepreneur. Shruti Kakkar - the wannabe business woman who dreams of making it big as a wedding planner personifies the optimistic and daring new India. Anushka Sharma gives her best shot to-date as Shruti Kakkar. So does newcomer Ranveer Singh, a virtual nobody before he landed this gig.
It is good to see production houses like Yash Raj films coming out with quality films, giving opportunity to emerging directors - Chak De India, Rocket Singh and Band Baaja Baarat, the list is growing, these movies can cover up their mistakes like Pyaar Impossible.
BBB does not
approach the wedding using the tried and tested Bollywood formula where
the whole movie is a giant excuse to showcase hero-heroine's wedding. In
BBB the spotlight is shifted towards the back, behind the scenes of a
planned wedding - a role traditionally played by parents but fast being taken
over by professional wedding planners.Like Do Dooni Char, Band Baaja Baaraat is a tribute to Dilli. Dilli 6 may have Dilli in the title and Chandni Chowk’s galis as shooting locales, but Band Baaja Baaraat and Do Dooni Char live and breathe Delhi. Punjabi infused Hindi delivered effortlessly by Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh – the actors who play the two main characters of Shruti Kakkar and Bittoo Sharma, lifts you from your couch and puts you right into a Janakpuri kind of day.
The film is also an acknowledgement to a new brand of Indian - the young entrepreneur. Shruti Kakkar - the wannabe business woman who dreams of making it big as a wedding planner personifies the optimistic and daring new India. Anushka Sharma gives her best shot to-date as Shruti Kakkar. So does newcomer Ranveer Singh, a virtual nobody before he landed this gig.
It is good to see production houses like Yash Raj films coming out with quality films, giving opportunity to emerging directors - Chak De India, Rocket Singh and Band Baaja Baarat, the list is growing, these movies can cover up their mistakes like Pyaar Impossible.
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