HINDI FILM REVIEW: Bamfaad Movie Review

Bamfaad Movie Review : Aditya Rawal and Shalini Pandey’s romance implodes

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Bamfaad is a 2020 Bollywood romantic action film directer is Ranjan Chandel starring Aditya Rawal and Shalini Pandey in their first lead film.The film was released on 10 April 2020.

It is a passionate love story set in Allahabad between Nasir Jamal and Neelam who meet accidentally and fall in love.They make brave choices and go through a path of love and loss to be with each other.

Critic's Rating : 2.5/5

Avg. Users' Rating : 2.0/5

Bamfaad Movie Review :

Aditya Rawal makes a promising debut but Ranjan Chandel’s directorial debut is riddled with clichés of small-town love stories.In his directorial debut, Bamfaad, Ranjan Chandel manages to capture the old-world charm of Allahabad - not Prayagraj, but Ilahabad -- as the locals would say. It is the perfect setting for dramatic young love, but Aditya Rawal and Shalini Pandey’s romance is not quite the explosive and heady passion that it promises to be.

Nasir Jamal aka Naate (Aditya Rawal), the hot-headed and impulsive son of politically ambitious Shahid Jamal, falls in love at first sight with Neelam (Shalini Pandey). She is ‘bamfaad’ herself, but has a dark secret of her own, which ties her to local strongman Jigar Fareedi (Vijay Varma).

The inter-religious aspect of the relationship is unimportant in the scheme of things in Bamfaad; there is a one-off reference to ‘love jihad’ but it is quickly forgotten. Instead, the villain in this story is Jigar, who is determined to strip Nasir of his ego. But this face-off, too, lacks intensity. And while Nasir’s volatile behaviour is established right from the opening scene, when a major conflict arises, he puzzlingly hops on the first bus to Lucknow with Neelam to get away from it all.Aditya Rawal makes a promising debut and is a refreshing departure from the star kids with enviable physiques but zero acting chops. He delivers a restrained performance, with a convincing UP accent. Shalini Pandey is up to the mark as the feisty-yet-vulnerable Neelam but reminiscent of her Arjun Reddy act.Jatin Sarna is impressive as the treacherous friend, and while Vijay Varma stands out as the local strongman with political ambitions, the weak writing lets him down.

Bamfaad loses steam in the second half and has a been-there-done-that feel to it. However, it is buoyed by its performances, and makes for a decent watch during the lockdown.

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Directer : Ranjan Chandel
Producer : Ajay G Rai Pradeep Kumar
Writter : Hanzalah Shahid Ranjan Chandel
Starring : Aditya Rawal,Shalini Pandey,Vijay Varma
Music : Vishal Mishra
Cinematography : Piyush Puty
Edited : Nitesh Bhatia
Distributed :ZEE5
Casting : Taran Bajaj
Production Design : Rakesh Yadav
Production Management : Jitain Khanna,Salim M. Shaikh
Assistant Director : Pratik Gala,Manish Rukmani Sharma,Aashna Singh
Art Department : Saral Khalwa
Sound Department : Pritam Das,C.V. Raju,Saptarshi Sarkar,Avikal Shrivastava
Visual Effects : Raghav Rai,Rajeev Kumar Rastogi
Genres: Romance
Release date : 10 April 2020
Country : India
Language : Hindi

Film Story :

A passionate love story set in Allahabad between Naate and Neelam who meet accidentally and fall in love. They make brave choices and go through a path of love and loss to be with each other.

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Production :

Scripting :

Director Ranjan met his co-writer Hanzalah Shahid after coming back from the shoot of the film ‘Mukkabaaz’. Hanzalah gave him a script to read of a different title. Ranjan read the script and got fascinated by some characters of that world which inspired him to dwell more into that world. He took those characters and some incidents and started writing a new draft from the scratch of the script and titled it ‘Bamfaad’.Bamfaad is a north Indian slang which portrays a certain energy and it means “Explosive” or “Kickass”.

Film Shooting :

Since this was Ranjan’s debut film, the budget was quite restrained. That is why he chose his hometown Kanpur as the base for shooting. His father Manmohan Chandel has played a very important part in the shoot. There were many times when the crew didn’t have permission to shoot at a location, the crew used to shoot in Ranjan father’s hometown as he used to get permission for the crew easily.

The Film Shooting of Started on 2 September 2018 in Kanpur and the film was wrapped on 22 October 2018 in Lucknow. The shooting of the film got finished in a span of 45 days.

Bamfaad Songs/Music :

The Music is composed Vishal Mishra and the lyrics are written by Raj Shekhar.

The film contains Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ – Baadal Raag, composed and sung by Harpreet Singh. It describes the journey of a thundercloud. Ranjan found the composition as a passionate composition of a compelling poem.

“Bamfaad Title Track” – Vishal Mishra
“Ishq Ka Itar” – Vishal Mishra
“Munasib Hai Ishq Ka Ho Jaana” – Vishal Mishra Anandi Joshi
“Yaar Mera Ho Mere Rubaru” – Sukhwinder Singh Vishal Mishra Hemant Brijwasi Moin Sabri