Bala craves for Baal(hair)

Rating-3.5/ 5

Director- Amar Kaushik

Story line: Bala , a film which narrates the story of a young man ,facing premature balding and his efforts to regain his reciding hairline.

Plot:  Bala begins with Vijay raaz’s (film actor) voice over, explaining the importance of hair on one’s head.(hum aapki khoobsurti kaa raaz hai,Aapke sarka permanent Taj jai); Enters Balmukunnd Shukla alias Bala (Ayuashman khurana). A young kid who has over bearing hair on his head meets him and irritates  him. He comes to senses only when he meets his dark skinned classmate ,Latika(Bhumi padnakar).

Story: The young hero of college days , who according to him resembled Shahrukh khan ,loses his hair.To regain his lost hair Bala tries every medicine and every cure available in Allopathy ,Homeopathy  and  Ayurveda. He even applies cow dung to regrow his hair. Every effort turns futile.

Bala  loses his self confidence ,as he is abondoned by his childhood girlfriend and feels embarrassed to talk to girls because of his baldness. By noticing his son’s struggle for hair growth Bala’s father present him a ‘ wig’ on his birthday pushing the latter to ‘cloud nine’. .Bala , a good mimicry artist of Bollywood actors shahrukh khan and amitabh bachan,who comes across to meet kanpaur’s model and tiktok fame pari Mishra (yami gautham),starts falling for her. within no time both of them confess their love for eachother. As  Pari is a model, outward appearance matters a lot to her and fall’s for Bala’s hair(wig).

Bala who cannot bear to see his own receding hairline has the mirror in the bathroom which is half covered from the above ,so that his forehead should not be visible to his sight,hesitates and is afraid of revealing  his wig’s secret to Pari. However he succeeds in tying knot to pari ,but  after few days of marriage  when pari discovers his baldness ,they part their ways. She  also files case against Bala for betraying her. Bala approches his friend Latika ,a dark complexed girl ,the lawyer at whom Bala mocked in his school days. Latika is  a self- dependent women.  According to her, every human being is blessed with his/her own identity and never feel embarrassed,when people mocks her for her skin complexion.

Protagonist:  Ayuashman khurana, one cannot talk about his films without praising him. He has proven himself he is good at choosing the best scripts.For instance his last movie Dream girl, in which he plays the role of call center girl as he can talk like women.In this this movie he has played the role of bald – headed young man.

Female Roles:  Both the female characters in the movie have been  beautifully . Bhumi padnakar has played the role of a dark- complexioned girl , a deviant one amid stereotyoe glamour dolls. But she has done it exquisitely. Yami Gautham has been shown with lot of glamour to  attract the youth with overdose of make-up and costumes.

Other cast: Saurabh Shukla (father) Abhishek Banerjee(friend)  has lent good support to the movie

Direction: Director Amar Kaushik has tried to convey the message,that ,how our society mocks those who are different.

Choreography is good ,the last song of the movie ‘dont be shy my honey ‘ forces the audience to groove,more so,with the entry of singer and rapper ‘Baadshah’.

Final verdict: Ayushman’s performance , his delivery of dialogues and bhumi’s boldness to face criticism ,along with this situational comedy will make the Audience glued to the screen.