Plot: A dramatic tale of 6 sisters whose blood relations are diluted by watery misunderstandings. A Mangalagaur competition turns into a life changing event for all of them.

Rating:

Team:
Director: Kedar Shinde
Cast: Rohini Hattangadi, Vandana Gupte, Suchitra Bandekar, Deepa Parab, Riya Sharma
Writer: Vaishali Naik
Music By: Sai-Piyush

Review:

Kedar Shinde holds a reputation for delivering hilarious, rib-tickling women centric Marathi Blockbusters in the past. Some of them being Aga Bai Areccha! and Bakula Namdev Ghotale. And so, it won’t be wrong to consider this genre a cakewalk for him. But his latest venture ‘Baipan Bhari Deva’ just proves that his metal is now rusting slowly.

Baipan Bhari Deva tries to portray the lost glory of womanhood and puts on a decent show for all the middle-aged women. It was such an overwhelming picture seeing all the women in the cinema hall give a standing ovation with tears rolling down there and clapping as hard as they could. No doubt this one is going to be loved by all the middle-aged women who face the exact same problems in their own lives but looking at the technicalities of the film, the critic in me might just not be satisfied with the product.

Baipan Bhari Deva starts with the childhood days of the 6 sisters playing and dancing to the tunes of Manglagaur. Skip to the present the eldest sisters Shashi (Vandana Gupte) and Jaya (Rohini Hattangadi) are distanced due to a very intense misunderstanding of motherhood. Pallavi (Suchitra Bandekar) and Ketaki (Shilpa Navalkar) have grown distant because of envy and jealousy both in terms of money and marital life. Charu (Deepa Parab) and Sadhana (Sukanya Kulkarni) work in the same bank but Charu is the younger sister and so has a difficult time being a boss to Sadhna.

In all of this turmoil comes along a Manglagaur Competition with a prize money of 25 Lakhs which could solve all their problems. Shashi’s issues with her daughters Mother-in-Law leads her to sign up for this competition. But she is in need of a team and who better than her own sisters. This way all of them come together but will their differences let them overcome this hurdle is how the film moves forward.

The screenplay is a bit tedious and editing is very abrupt. The camera work nothing but ordinary. The only part which excels is the performance of the actors and some hilarious jokes every now and then. As an audience you might have to take in the exaggerated melodrama like a pinch of salt and if you are easily irritated by soap opera drama then this one’s not for you. The music is also not something you will remember when you walk out that hall excepts the title song of Baipan Bhari Deva.

Vandana Gupte and Rohini Hattangadi’s performance definitely lives up to their name. Other supporting cast also deliver apt performances. The casting is so apt and impressive. Unfortunately, the script could have done with better conflicts and solutions of more than just saying Thank You and Sorry. The up and down shift in tonality of the film is something which a very few directors manage to pull off. The shift in the tragic scenes immediately leading to hilarious ones is impressive.

Baipan Bhari Deva is a soap-operaish ode to sisterhood presented on the big screen. If you feel engaged watching the same old melodrama then you will absolutely love this on the bigger screen.
P.S watching this with all the women in your life is a bumper deal.

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