Review of Band Baaja Baaraat

You cannot watch this film without falling in love with Anushka Sharma first. Ranveer Singh was just lucky to have done this film which no one expected to work the way it worked. I still love the Anushka Sharma of Band Bajaa Baraat. The innocence she had before she did the plastic surgery was breathtaking. The film is about the world of Shruti Kakkar who wants to become a wedding planner and she finds a clueless boy, Bittu who being forced by his father to come back to village decides to do anything to remain in the city. So, he joins Shruti in her dream. Soon their company becomes big and they start getting offers. But wait, the film is not about that. The film is a love story of Shruti and Bittu who keep denying to each other that they have started liking each other. They had a rule that they will keep the love and business separate but that plan goes the downhill and also the film for me. Overall the film is great and I love the first half of the film. While the first half is a joyous ride, the second half is a cryfest. One emotional scene after another ruins the mood for watching the film. What saves the film is Anushka and Ranveer's acting and of course the beauty of Anushka. I think she had looked the best in this film and she had never looked more beautiful ever again. Every song of the film is great especially "ainvayi ainvayi". I love everything about that song, especially the choreography and the beats. The director Maneesh Sharma has captured the essence of Delhi which only one filmmaker has done before, Dibakar Banerjee. Maneesh excels in handling comedy scenes and establishing the characters but since he is from the Chopra gang, he makes the emotional scene less impactful and lengthier than required. The film worked because of songs and because every guy I know fell in love with Anushka after the film. The first was the best part. However, bypassing the small mistakes here and there, the overall movie was good. The music by Salim Sulaiman was excellent. The writing of Habib Faisal and capture the lingo of Delhites was a difficult job but he did top-notch work. The camera by Aseem Mishra was ordinary and there is nothing to talk about it. The editing by Namrata Rao is good in the first half but she could have easily trimmed the second half to make it more interesting. The film well deserves the accolades it got. It made people take Anushka Sharma as a good actor and Ranveer Singh got his dream launch in a film that became a superhit. Not many youngsters are lucky to get that.