Bhau Bali (भाऊ बळी)

​"Bhau Bali (भाऊ बळी)".

Watched Marathi movie "Bhau Bali (भाऊ बळी)". 

This movie is directed by Sameer Patil. Produced by Sandeep Kale & others. Cinematography by Suhas Gujarathi. It features Manoj Joshi, Kishor Kadam, Hrishikesh Joshi, Vijay Kenkre, Resham Tipnis, Rajan Bhise, Medha Manjrekar, Manasi Kulkarni, Priyadarshini Indalkar, Shrikar Pitre. Film runs for about 2 hour and 2 minutes and was released in 2022. I watched it on 6th Jun 2023 on Zee5. 

Manoj Joshi ( Bhau) is an officer in Mantralay. He lives in a society called Siddhesh Nagar. Kishor Kadam (Bali) is their doodhwala. They clash on whether the previous month bill was paid or not and this fight turns into a war between the society and the slum. 

Seed of the movie is good but the execution is poor. Objective of characters like Resham Tipnis remain unknown till the end. Character of judge appears to be the only sane one but it peters out. Character of Bali appears to be reasonable initially, suddenly it becomes unreasonable, then he changes color to logically unreasonable, then suddenly he becomes nice guy and finally gets drunk first time in his life. Character of Bhau also does something out of character suddenly. It appears like the writer and director didn’t think about the characters enough and rather developed them on the fly. They appear to be working towards creating drama rather than story. 

End of the movie is also very unsatisfactory. Director had a good opportunity to close the movie but he again takes the unreasonable path and that too is unconvincing. Did the director know what he was doing?

Audience rue the lost opportunities. With a powerful cast like this, the movie should have been better than this.

Acting is good but due to faulty characters it doesn’t appeal to the audience. 

Name of the movie draws the audience because of its similarity with the supper hit Baahubali. But the similarity ends their in every aspect.

Positives: Umm….

Negatives:  Story. Direction.

Give it a miss.