Bawaal review - Page 9

Beautiful movie. It's strange that Nadiadwala went for an OTT release. This movie would have had good wom.

Nitesh is truly a great storyteller. Comedy in the first half is quite good. The 2nd ww scenes have been shot and explained nicely later.

Varun was good. Jhanvi has improved a lot but her dialogue delivery is just awful. The little kid Papon was so good and the guy who played Varun's friend was awesome too.

Great watch! ❤️

AMAZING AMAZING MOVIE and CONCEPT!!

The new generation should watch this movie!

Hats off to the director of the movie!

After watching so many junk Hindi movies I really loved this movie.

Both actors did a perfect job.

1/5 (has spoilers)

It started out well, had a great premise but thereon it was a disaster. The acting was hit and miss. Varun being good in some places, Jhanavi just terrible all throughout. There's a scene where they are in a restaurant and stating each of their likes and dislikes. Jhanavi's acting there was god awful.

Parallels being drawn between the Holocaust and their tuch relationship was very bad. It takes Ajju Bhaiya knowing the Holocaust and experiencing it through those weird visuals to realise that he could live with his wife suffering with epilepsy. Omg.

It's a shame because the premise was solid with Ajju Bhaiya lacking in his life and always looking for external validation rather than being happy with what he has. He gets married to a beautiful woman who tells him of her epilepsy problem before marriage but he still insists on icing her out and being an ass. But he wouldn't divorce her either because people will talk. There are literally so many ways they could have written this without the WW2 angle.

There are problematic dialouges but also they watered Hitler's genocide to ambition and reputation. Just bad. The makers should be happy that this is on OTT and not many will watch it. Otherwise they are one hot sec away from some tiktokiya discovering this and getting cancelled like no tomorrow.

Tried watching it.The starting was not all that bad. It is about a guy who is all about maintaining his false image because he hasn't achieved anything big in his life. All his decisions are taken to cater to and maintain this image. Then Jhanvis character enters who is a perfect foil to Ajju (Varuns) character. She is beautiful, well educated and belongs to a business family. There is only 1 drawback she has epilepsy about which she informed Ajju. The marriage had many pros and only 1 con, so they get married.

Till here it was going fine, but Ajjus reaction to the epilepsy attack was so pathetic that I couldn't get over it. Yeah I get needing some time to process it and come to terms with it. But making your wife almost a recluse for 10 months, not taking her anywhere, not even to her maayka, not communicating with her. Saying that you can't go with her because she might go into "vibration mode" anytime. Sheer insensitivity of portrayal is shocking. You can say that there might be many people who might react like this in real life. Sure, there might be, but then they can't be called a hero or even a good hunan being. That vibration comment for her epilepsy attack was enough to make his character irredeemable for me. Yes protagonists might have flaws but being an overall nasty human being won't make me root for them.

After that,the whole episode of a middle class family giving away almost 10 lakhs rupees for Europe trip so that Ajju can cover up his mistake was so unrealistic.

Anyway I stopped watching as soon as they left for Europe because Ajju was already insufferable for me. Plus the whole premise of making them go to Europe was so stupid. I don't even want to know with how much callousness and insentivity the second world war would be treated.

Varuns was OK in his portrayal, nothing great. Jhanvi was decent in her role. Supporting cast was fine. 1.5/5 for first half. No interest in watching second half.

Just shut your brain off and then it’s an alright watch

Originally posted by: melody442

Tried watching it.The starting was not all that bad. It is about a guy who is all about maintaining his false image because he hasn't achieved anything big in his life. All his decisions are taken to cater to and maintain this image. Then Jhanvis character enters who is a perfect foil to Ajju (Varuns) character. She is beautiful, well educated and belongs to a business family. There is only 1 drawback she has epilepsy about which she informed Ajju. The marriage had many pros and only 1 con, so they get married.

Till here it was going fine, but Ajjus reaction to the epilepsy attack was so pathetic that I couldn't get over it. Yeah I get needing some time to process it and come to terms with it. But making your wife almost a recluse for 10 months, not taking her anywhere, not even to her maayka, not communicating with her. Saying that you can't go with her because she might go into "vibration mode" anytime. Sheer insensitivity of portrayal is shocking. You can say that there might be many people who might react like this in real life. Sure, there might be, but then they can't be called a hero or even a good hunan being. That vibration comment for her epilepsy attack was enough to make his character irredeemable for me. Yes protagonists might have flaws but being an overall nasty human being won't make me root for them.

After that,the whole episode of a middle class family giving away almost 10 lakhs rupees for Europe trip so that Ajju can cover up his mistake was so unrealistic.

Anyway I stopped watching as soon as they left for Europe because Ajju was already insufferable for me. Plus the whole premise of making them go to Europe was so stupid. I don't even want to know with how much callousness and insentivity the second world war would be treated.

Varuns was OK in his portrayal, nothing great. Jhanvi was decent in her role. Supporting cast was fine. 1.5/5 for first half. No interest in watching second half.

Yeah the whole treatment given to the epilepsy thing is pathetic to say the least. It made me wonder if we are still in 2023 or time traveled back to the stone age . It was pure cringe to go through those scenes.

I think a lot of people were so in shock over the insensitivity of the Auschwitz comparison and the Hitler line that we’ve all forgotten to even vent about what an awful character Ajju is. I agree, he’s just a horrible person, as a teacher, as a son, but mostly as a husband. He’s verbally and emotionally abusive and continues to be one even in Europe calling her defective. He only “feels bad” about it because he needs her to basically be his guide in Auschwitz. He’s shown in the beginning to be an alcoholic as well but that’s never touched on again.

Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly

I think a lot of people were so in shock over the insensitivity of the Auschwitz comparison and the Hitler line that we’ve all forgotten to even vent about what an awful character Ajju is. I agree, he’s just a horrible person, as a teacher, as a son, but mostly as a husband. He’s verbally and emotionally abusive and continues to be one even in Europe calling her defective. He only “feels bad” about it because he needs her to basically be his guide in Auschwitz. He’s shown in the beginning to be an alcoholic as well but that’s never touched on again.

It's a very poorly written script imo. The reason they even go to Europe was lame. But I was willing to push past it if the second half worked on Ajju's arc. His character requires literal reminders everytime to be a decent human being. From Normandy beach, Ann Frank's house, to Holocaust and Auschwitz. I mean gruesome acts of violence from history is what jolts him into realizing that he could be a decent husband. 🤪It's just wild that this movie even got made. I feel like SA don't realise the gravity of Holocaust because it feels it distant. If they had used Jallianwala Bagh masaccre as they originally planned, the SM bots would have obliterated this with the boycotting I feel.

Originally posted by: ohophelia

It's a very poorly written script imo. The reason they even go to Europe was lame. But I was willing to push past it if the second half worked on Ajju's arc. His character requires literal reminders everytime to be a decent human being. From Normandy beach, Ann Frank's house, to Holocaust and Auschwitz. I mean gruesome acts of violence from history is what jolts him into realizing that he could be a decent husband. 🤪It's just wild that this movie even got made. I feel like SA don't realise the gravity of Holocaust because it feels it distant. If they had used Jallianwala Bagh masaccre as they originally planned, the SM bots would have obliterated this with the boycotting I feel.

That kind of tells me that for them WWII and the Holocaust was just a safe option. It shows a lack of empathy and a degree of callousness tbh. I agree that it was a very poorly written script. And I still maintain that everyone specially head of Amazon Prime India is very lucky this is basically flopping because one viral clip and everyone would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly

And I still maintain that everyone specially head of Amazon Prime India is very lucky this is basically flopping because one viral clip and everyone would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Oh definitely! Reminds me of that Deloitte guy who was fired from his job few weeks back coz he made a post on LinkedIn praising Hitler. Makers should just be grateful that the movie didn't get much traction or they would have become an international joke.