Babli Tanwar employs emotional ploys to secure a position as a nightclub bouncer in the hopes of winning the man she loves’ favour. Heartbroken, she decides to take advantage of the chance to pursue her job and take control of her life.
Review: Babli is from a Haryanvi hamlet that borders Delhi and is well known for sending bouncers to clubs there. She decides to become a club bouncer in Delhi after a chance encounter with Viraj (Abhishek Saxena) alters the direction of her life. She eventually finds true happiness in educating herself and treating her job and career seriously when Viraj leaves her heartbroken.
After a five-year hiatus, Madhur Bhandarkar makes a directorial comeback with a story that once again centres on a woman’s search for love and for discovering her true identity.
One of the movie’s positives is the subject matter. In an Indian film, the life of a bouncer, much alone a female bouncer, has never actually been fully addressed. The difficult life of the hardly discernible female bouncers has been portrayed in a humorous way. However, this writing is weak. Babli encounters obstacles in her path to self-discovery, but she overcomes them without much difficulty. She is portrayed as a fierce go-getter who doesn’t give a damn what people think. She starts to alter her life’s direction and correct everything her heartbreaker points out is wrong with her, but, the moment he holds up the mirror to her. That and a few other details muddy the story and narrow the focus.
Despite being extremely distant from his own standards after producing several excellent movies in the past, Madhur Bhandarkar hasn’t lost his form. Despite this, the movie is nonetheless enjoyable to watch and includes a few charming scenes that help you get through its nearly two-hour length.