Babli Bouncer Review - Madhur Bhandarkar & Tamannaah Bhatia Couldn't Gaurd Their Own Film

Madhur Bhandarkar is known for making woman-centric and hard-hitting films that always reflect the true beauty and ugliness of society. I have personally liked his films Chandni Bar, Page 3, Corporate, Traffic Signal, Fashion and Jail. As you can see, the graph is going down day-by-day. With Babli Bouncer, the graph slips a bit more. Bhandarkar's low level of film-making reaches to the bottom, and moreover, his choice of this motive-less story harms the film and our viewing experience. One can say that in the last 10 years, Madhur Bhandarkar has lost his touch, and I wouldn't argue. Unfortunately, he couldn't find that touch with Babli Bouncer either. Interestingly, the film is releasing on Hotstar, a platform which is hardly delivering anything watchable.Babli Bouncer is a story of a young and beautiful village girl, Babli (Tamannaah Bhatia). She is 10th fail but knows all the Duniyadari stuff. She is strong, not just physically but mentally as well. While searching for true love, she meets Viraj (Abhishek Bajaj), and an affair begins between these two love birds. After a moment of self-realisation and a suggestion from a male friend (sort of), she moves to Delhi and becomes a female bouncer. What challenges she has to face as a bouncer is all what Babli Bouncer's draft has for you in store.Madhur Bhandarkar has always made realistic films, and that's why I loved them in the first place. For the first time in his career, he tried to do something different with Babli Bouncer (a comedy), but sadly, he failed miserably. The script is very dull and has nothing in store for any kind of audience, be it masses or classes. Babli Bouncer tries many things at the same time but fails to find the right balance between multiple aspects of comedy. This topic was actually so good, but the messy screenplay and outdated vision snatched away all the scope from it. This female bouncer thing was so new for Bollywood, but what have we made out of it? Babli Bouncer? That's totally unfair. I don't really see any logic behind using this romance angle, and most importantly, how Babli, as an aspiring girl, looks at it. Amit Joshi, Aradhana Debnath and Madhur Bhandarkar's trio lock themselves into a box of limits, they just don't step out of that.Talking about the star cast, Tamannaah nails the Haryanvi accent. Well, that's new for her, but what about acting? That's below par for sure. She doesn't really look like a bouncer in some scenes. Abhishek Bajaj's handsome looks will have you for a while, and his chemistry with Tamannaah is beautiful, but soon you'll notice that he doesn't really suit the beauty of Bhatia. A talented actor like Saurabh Shukla is totally wasted here. And I don't really know what Ashwini Kalsekar was doing there. Sahil Vaid who has given good performances in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Badrinath Ki Dulhania and Dil Bechara, drops himself to a lower standard. The rest of the cast also hasn't done anything else besides terrible acting.The technical aspects of Babli Bouncer will be overlooked because of the small screen experience. Thankfully, I got to see it on the big screen so I could make notes for the future. Music is too dull to be mentioned here and waste two more lines. The dialogues have a certain, intentional northern flavour, which looks so downmarket sometimes. Babli Bouncer is a motive-less film, and one of the worst parts of it is its climax. It hardly makes you laugh, but it will give you that chance once the film is over. Such off-track stories should be banned soon. Madhur Bhandarkar should stick to his basics and not try something he can't make. Babli Bouncer couldn't have gotten anywhere else with this story, but what about direction, execution, and crafting? Did Bhandarkar approve it all with blind eyes? Anyway, try and skip Babli Bouncer, unless you want to see the gorgeous Tamannaah Bhatia, and she kicking some serious action sequences.