{"id":26380,"date":"2022-02-11T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=26380"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T10:58:11","slug":"26380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=26380","title":{"rendered":"Badhaai Do addresses an important topic in a sensitive manner"},"content":{"rendered":"
BADHAAI DO is the story of a homosexual couple entering into a lavender marriage. Shardul Thakur (Rajkummar Rao) is a cop in Dehradun. He stays with his conservative family. He is a closet homosexual man and he hasn\u2019t revealed this fact to his family. He\u2019s 32 and his family is pressuring him to get married. Suman Singh (Bhumi Pednekar), meanwhile, is a physical education teacher, and is a closet lesbian. Even her family is compelling her to settle down. She resorts to dating apps to find a suitable match. She comes across the profile of Raju and he expresses a desire to meet her and take matters forward. She agrees and they decide to meet in a caf\u00e9. At the caf\u00e9, she gets the shock of her life when she realizes that Raju is actually a guy pretending to be a girl. This guy, whose real name is Rajeev (Vyom Yadav), finds out where Suman lives and where her father (Nitesh Pandey) has a shop. He blackmails her and demands sexual favours or else he threatens to expose her. Suman complains to the police. Shardul notes down her complaint and he gets Rajeev arrested. Rajeev blurts out to Shardul that she\u2019s not straight. While noting down her complaint, he has learnt that Suman is of the same caste as him. Hence, he meets Suman and asks her to get married to him. According to his plan, both can reside as roommates after tying the knot and can live their lives on their own terms. Suman agrees and thus, both get married. A year after marriage, Shardul\u2019s family starts pressurizing the couple for a baby. Shardul is dating an MBA student, Kabir (Deepak Arora), and their relationship is on the rocks. Suman, meanwhile, bumps into Rimjhim Jongkey (Chum Darang), who works at a pathology lab. Both begin a secret affair and Rimjhim even moves into Shardul and Suman\u2019s marriage. Shardul gets afraid over this development as he resides in the police quarters where his fellow cop neighbours are quite conservative. What happens next forms the rest of the film.<\/p>\n

Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary’s story is progressive and the concept of the film is quite brave. Akshat Ghildial, Suman Adhikary and Harshavardhan Kulkarni’s screenplay is shaky though at few places, it is entertaining as well touching. Both the main characters are very neatly fleshed out and also that of Shardul\u2019s mother (Sheeba Chaddha). However, the script is stretched in the middle portion of the film. Ideally, the screenplay should have been shorter for a better impact. Akshat Ghildial’s dialogues are conversational but lack punchlines. His dialogues were far better in BADHAAI HO [2018] and the one-liners here should have been similarly witty and smart.<\/p>\n

Director Harshavardhan Kulkarni has handled certain scenes with \u00e9lan. He deserves kudos as a film of such a topic needs to be treated sensitively. In this regard, Harshavardhan comes out with flying colours as there\u2019s nothing offensive or objectionable at all about LGBTQIA+ community. He also breaks stereotypes; the gay character is a strong body-builder with six pack abs and is a cop, something that\u2019s never seen before in a Bollywood film dealing with a homosexual character. Sadly, he lets the film go on and on. BADHAAI DO is 147 minutes long and should have been ideally of 2 hours duration. A few humorous gags fall flat. The director doesn\u2019t explain why Kabir lost interest in Shardul and what went wrong between them. Even Rimjhim\u2019s character disappears in the middle. Thankfully, the last 30-35 minutes are excellent and very moving.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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