‘Babli Bouncer’ movie review: Tamannaah Bhatia caught in a straitjacketed story

After a hiatus, Madhur Bhandarkar returns along with his components of understanding a bit of society by way of a feminine protagonist. Having exposing the underbelly of socialites, dance bars, and the style trade, Madhur now turns his lens on the booming enterprise of bouncers in metros and its provide chain in Haryana villages

Nevertheless, because it seems, Madhur is now not the intrepid filmmaker who gave us  Web page 3 and  Chandni Bar. Right here, he has provide you with a secure movie that hardly stretches the boundaries of feel-good cinema, and seems like watching a tv serial in two hours, the place conflicts are facile and options are seen from a distance. There isn’t any try to noticeably discover the underbelly of the nightclub enterprise in Delhi-NCR, and it appears Madhur has stopped drawing from information headlines. 

The backdrop will not be novel as he’s a bit late in turning the concentrate on Haryana the place women with magnificence and brawn are excelling in fields that had been earlier thought-about reserved for boys.  Babli Bouncer hardly nudges the bins created by  Dangal and  Sultan and their a number of spin-offs within the mainstream house. A well-meaning father (Saurabh Shukla) who permits his daughter Babli’s (Tamannaah Bhatia) dream to take wings. The village belle who misunderstands a  shehri babu’s (Abhishek Bajaj ) empathy as love. In fact, there’s a shoulder (Sahil Vaid) to cry upon, however earlier than she might slip, the writers provide you with pads to assist Babli discover her ft and focus. The nice factor is Amit Joshi’s dialogues hold you in good humour all through, even when the conditions flip too syrupy. One other factor that works is the father-daughter bond, that isn’t progressive, however heartfelt however.

In Tamannaah, Madhur has a star who appears eager on a picture change. A reliable actress, she is not unhealthy within the enjoyable and emotional components and aces the native accent. However regardless of suspending disbelief, the bubbly actor doesn’t come throughout as a bouncer or a lady who shuns lipstick. Maybe, somebody has instructed her that the lead actor’s feelings ought to be seen from a minimum of a kilometre. However such directions haven’t been handed on to Shukla and Sahil! Such daring strokes work for the  Baahubali sort of cinema, however not in topics that demand immersion. Maybe, Madhur didn’t need to lose out on the household viewers, however it leads to a generic coming-of-age movie with no id of its personal.

Babli Bouncer is presently streaming on Disney+Hotstar