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The Prime Video release of Bawaal is a complete failure. This Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor movie, which is being helmed by National Award-winning director Nitesh Tiwari, blends a WWII-era European setting with a middle-class family and school environment in Lucknow. The end result is, unsurprisingly, “Bawaal,” as the title of the movie suggests.

I would be able to understand the plot of the movie if it involved time travel, lost memories, or a good subplot about epilepsy (yes, you heard that right, lots going on in the movie) or personal loss; however, the almost absurd and ambitious notion of equating the life of a Lucknow history teacher with the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust is almost frightening, if not trivializing.

‘Bawaal’ might be quite difficult to comprehend and make sense of. It seems that the director was making an excessive effort to defend this plot to himself.

In the movie “Bawaal,” this is achieved through elaborating on and imparting the life lessons that history can teach us—”apni purani galtion se seekhna,” as Mukesh Tiwari, who plays an MLA, says in the movie.

However, the extent of creativity required to make such a story idea a reality is simply mind-boggling.

What does “Bawaal” ultimately suggest? One might be accused of being a conservationist for refusing to adopt a new way of seeing history or, as others have proposed, a type of educational movie you can watch with your kids.

When Varun acknowledges Janhvi’s character’s reality—that she is an epileptic woman—his almost immediate comparison to Hitler changes. Or that it’s acceptable to patronizingly teach 13-year-olds in a Lucknow school life lessons while trivializing a significant period of 20th-century history? Is Ajay Dixit’s transition into a man only feasible after he has endured the hardship of learning the truth about the Holocaust, The list goes on.

In the film “Bawaal,” Varun Dhawan plays a history teacher named Ajay Dixit who has always been an average student and has built up an image of himself that he will uphold no matter what the truth is or how harmful he may be to others.

In contrast, Janhvi Kapoor portrays Nisha, a business family daughter who is intelligent, self-reliant, and attractive with just one flaw—epilepsy.

Janhvi suffers an epileptic attack at the wedding of these two people. ‘Bawaal’ is focused on what happens next.

Epilepsy is not given a fair amount of attention in “Bawaal”; on the two occasions it is mentioned, it serves solely as a plot element.

On the other hand, after learning about the WWII history that Nisha teaches him in Europe, Ajay Dixit experiences a change of heart that causes him to become a more accepting guy who accepts the reality of life as opposed to the image of what could or should be.

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The Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor film “Bawaal” does a lot of things well despite the biggest tale oddity.

Music of Bawaal

The soundtrack is one illustration. ‘Bawaal’s’ soundtrack enhances the storyline of the movie. It has some strange moments, notably when opera and a desi soundtrack are combined. Despite feeling like it was taken from a Mr. Bean episode, the movie has one genuinely funny scene.

The score is unpredictable, and provocative, yet never all-encompassing at other times.

The two tracks, one of which serves as the customary opening credits song and the other of which serves as a romance track in the second part, both work effectively.

Performances In Bawal

Ajay Dixit is played convincingly by Varun Dhawan.

Ajay is a character we have seen in numerous Bollywood films as this typical desi middle-class alpha husband who is ignorant of many aspects of life. But there’s a nuance to his persona that makes him brutally honest and wicked.

Since Ajay’s story takes up the majority of the movie, Janhvi Kapoor’s character isn’t as well developed as Ajay’s. Janhvi, though, also gives her character justice.

Mukesh Tiwari, Anjuman Saxena, and Manoj Pahwa are a few underrated actors.

Experiment with form in Bawal

With “Bawaal,” the director also successfully experiments with form.

As viewers, we may admire the black-and-white scenes that replay significant historical events (such as the invasion of Normandy’s Omaha Beach, the liberation of Auschwitz, and the use of gas chambers) while also showing the lives of the persons on film.

Almost never do scenes of intense emotion or passion involve close-ups of the characters’ faces, instead favoring mid-shots that promise more than is actually true.

Another interesting dimension in “Bawaal” was the use of locations to hint at the status of the two characters’ relationship, including Paris, Amsterdam, Auschwitz, and Berlin.

When in Paris, there is romance; when in Amsterdam, there is pleasure; when in Berlin, Nisha and Ajay’s love is put to the test; and when in Auschwitz, it all comes to a head.

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A sequence where an Auschwitz survivor sobs while telling the story of his wife while she is in the camp is interesting; even here, Tiwari doesn’t use closeup.

The problematic situation, though, stood out for three reasons.

One is the distance between the characters in the movie, as was already mentioned, and two is that it appears Tiwari is trying to justify his ambitious plot by using this scene to humanize the struggle and show that, despite the Holocaust’s immense horrors, the small things in life were what mattered to those who survived it. (A bold and controversial assertion)

But there are so many issues with this one black-and-white scene near the end of the movie where Nisha and Ajay picture themselves in a gas chamber and Nisha has an epileptic fit. It is absolutely sad.

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Conclusion

Mahal aisa banao, ki sirf mahal yaad rahe, final result nahi seems to have been taken too seriously by Nitesh Tiwari. The director neglected to consider how the finished movie would appear, feel, and imply by setting the story on a World War II-era backdrop and blending it with modern-day Lucknow.

After viewing “Bawaal,” many people can have different opinions. Some might feel that it’s a charming movie that Hollywoodizes the desi middle-class family model Bollywood has been producing for the past few years.

‘Bawaal’ is a movie that even kids can watch, according to some, and it uses the history of World War II to teach us valuable lessons about life. However, it’s preferable if these “children,” for whom Tiwari has made numerous films, don’t take “Bawaal” seriously this time.