The premise of Babli Bouncer comes from a very real story – that of the twin towns of Asola-Fatehpur Beri located a few kilometres from south Delhi.
Babli Bouncer is about the titular Babli Tanwar (Tamannaah Bhatia), a girl from the Asola-Fatehpur Beri twin villages near Delhi, which are known as the village of bouncers. The pehelwans of these villages work as bouncers in the nightclubs of Delhi-NCR. And Babli follows suit as a ‘lady bouncer’. Her motivation is to escape marriage and meet a cute Delhi boy she saw at a village function. The film then shows Babli’s growth as she re-evaluates her life choices and learns to prioritise what matters.
Tamannaah is earnest and surprisingly looks the part as Babli. She has the unenviable task of carrying the film on her shoulders and does it well. Without her charm, the film would have been unwatchable in parts. But she does well, capturing the physicality of the rustic Babli well. She does falter with the emotional bits but thankfully, has the support of some wonderful actors who fill the gaps. Saurabh Shukla as Babli’s father is sublime as well. Sahil Vaid as her smitten betrothed Kukku, a bouncer himself, is charming and pretty much the story’s moral compass. The other actors do their part well, particularly Abhishek Bajaj, who plays Babli’s love interest Viraj.
The film gets better in the second half after Babli’s epiphany and as she transforms into someone who is more focused on ‘apne pairon pe khada hona’. The transformation is much needed but comes quite late, if you ask me. And even then, the challenges Babli faces or the way she handles situations requires more common sense than heroic. And the inclusion of random jokes in some tense situations, almost always delivered in the Haryanavi twang, should be sent back to 2002 where it belongs.
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