The Prime Video alternation is produced by Karan Johar’s Dharmatic Entertainment, directed by Collin D’Cunha and created by Ishita Moitra
In the final adventure of Call Me Bae, Ananya Panday’s appearance Bella aka Bae describes herself as ‘flawsome — awry but awesome’. The banknote additionally altogether describes the Prime Video show, produced by Karan Johar’s Dharmatic Entertainment, and appearance Ananya’s web alternation debut.
Call Me Bae manages to backpack a bite by not demography itself too seriously. Directed by Collin D’Cunha and created by Ishita Moitra, this is a airy alternation with a advocate who wears her advantage on her sleeve and grows into addition far added layered than the baby South Delhi angel she starts off as.
From the outset, Bae is presented as a woman built-in into affluence who accidentally refers to South Delhi as her kingdom. Back her bedmate Agastya (Vihaan Samat) catches her accepting cosy with her trainer (Varun Sood) in the gym, Bae’s absolute apple comes abolition down; her flush ancestors cuts herself out and she’s affected to bulwark for herself in Mumbai.
The adventure is, of course, paved with sanitised struggles. This isn’t your archetypal riches-to-rags adventure a la Schitt’s Creek. Instead, it’s a tongue-in-cheek attending at a affluent babe addition out how to survive in a apple that doesn’t affliction a abuse for her whims.
Ananya Panday becomes Bae with a alloy of cluelessness and adeptness that is accessible on the eye. From spraying duke sanitiser on a bank bank afore aggravating her aboriginal vada pav to comparing an autorickshaw to a Mini Cooper, Ananya’s achievement is both amusing and self-aware. The cine by Ishita Moitra, Samina Motlekar and Rohit Nair plays with these moments of advantage in a way that doesn’t patronise Bae but additionally cuts her bottomward to size.
There’s a bloom to Bae as she doesn’t badly transform into a humble, common being by the end of the series. Instead, like Ranveer Singh's Rocky in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, she charcoal accurate to her appearance but grows in subtle, allusive ways. Ananya Panday’s achievement is a far cry from her antecedent roles. In Call Me Bae, she shows her adeptness to booty a appearance that is absolved as bank and gives her abyss after accident the fun and frothiness, which makes the alternation so entertaining.
However, by the third or fourth episode, the plotline begins to feel sluggish, and you feel like absolution Call Me Bae as aloof a desi adaptation of Emily in Paris. Things aces up already afresh back Bae starts assignment at a account approach beneath the strict, common Satyajit Sen, played with devilish blitheness by Vir Das. Das acutely had a bang abusive an Indian account anchor, and the activating amid his sensationalist journalism practices and Bae’s amusing media-influenced angle creates some of the series’ best moments.
Although the appearance veers into a austere area in the aftermost three episodes, arrest capacity like #MeToo and abstracts privacy, it maintains a light, about brassy tone. The showdown in the acme — about evocative of the aboriginal division afterpiece of Jennifer Anniston-starrer The Morning Appearance — is as crazy as it can get.
In the end, Call Me Bae is a appearance about women. Bae’s advance is cautiously guided by assorted women — her mother, her flatmate, and alike the women she meets in passing. Through the ‘Behen-code’ that the alternation playfully references, anniversary changeable appearance brings article new to the table, whether it’s a assignment in abasement or artlessly a aggregate moment of understanding.
Mini Mathur as Bae’s mother, Gayatri, has actual little awning time but slays it with her bold charm. Then there are Niharika Lyra Dutt’s Tammarrah and Lisa Mishra’s Harleen, Bae’s co-workers who become a acute allotment of her assignment at the account channel. Karishma Tanna, Sayani Gupta, Riya Sen and Faye D’Souza will additionally win your hearts with their cameos.
The standout in the acknowledging casting is Muskkaan Jaferi as Bae’s flatmate. Her bitter wit and communicable activity drag every arena she’s in, and she provides a much-needed counterpoint to Bae’s added above persona.
The men on the appearance aren’t all red flags either. Varun Sood as Prince, the adorable gym trainer with abrupt tech skills, and Gurfateh Pirzada as Bae’s aide Neel accord to her advance story.
Visually, too, Call Me Bae is as active as its protagonist. The apparel architecture in accurate reflects Bae’s journey, from glitzy, over-the-top apparel in the aboriginal episodes to the added subdued, able accoutrements later. By the final episode, back she chooses a aphotic blazer over her accepted blatant ensemble, it’s bright that Bae is not the aforementioned being anymore.
