Baii Ga Review

Rating: ⭐️⭐️

Plot: When Dhanush asks God why his and Aboli’s life is troubled, he learns he mistreated his wives in the last five lives. God gives him a chance to correct this by bringing his past wives into this life and tasks him with fulfilling each of their desires.

Team:

Director – Pandurang Jadhav

Writer – Vipul Deshmukh and Pandurang Jadhav

Editor – Nilesh Gawand

Review:

Amidst the rising trend of Marathi films focusing on women empowerment, creating something unique around the same has become a huge task. The subject and the titles have become so generic that it has reached a saturation point. So a film titled Bai Ga would have easily gone unnoticed but the premise looks really unique at least on the surface.

The film starts with Dhanush (Swapnil Joshi) dreaming about a happy and romantic married life with his lovely wife Aboli (Prarthana Behre) in London. But the dream is shattered when he wakes up to the reality of a redundant and boring life where romance has taken a back seat. Both of them try their best but nothing comes to fruition. Aboli is particularly sad because of all the sacrifices she did for the marriage.

Their anniversary is close by and both of them decide to make it the most memorable one. But unfortunately Aboli is kept waiting too long as Dhanush is stuck in the office till late. Aboli takes an unhinged decision of leaving the house once and for all. Dhanush comes to know about this and he starts a search across London with the help of his friend (Sagar Karande).

During the search, Dhanush keeps blaming God for all the bad luck in his married life. This is the moment where his complaints are heard and magically Indra Dev appears out of nowhere. Dhanush is made to realise that whatever is happening is nothing but the saturated Karma of his past marriages from past lives. When Dhanush gets a chance to set everything right, will he be able to do it or not is how the film moves forward.

The first half is more or less just about establishing their relationship problems. All the problems are something you would have already seen in some or the other movie. This surface level exploration of the much important issue make this a dud fest after a point. When there is such a generic issue of married life problems, it is expected to be shown through a perspective new to the audience altogether. And this is what lacks in this one. At the end, the film becomes nothing but a mockery of the husbands in a relationship.

Sagar Karande shines throughout the film. He is the one carrying the film with his comic timing. The jokes too lose their charm after a while. Swapnil Joshi and Prarthana Behere do a decent job but again you have already seen them in the same role for years. Other supporting cast is also fine and do their job well.

The songs are very unnecessary. The writing is so poor that you feel the whole drama could have been avoided by a simple conversation. When taking a quirky route, the reasoning should be believable. Nonetheless it seems like an honest attempt but 10 years too late to release. Can be a fun watch if you like laughing at random things.