REVIEW: A BRA KA D  BRA - Jyothi Venkatesh

Producers- Shyamashis Bhattacharya and Neelima Bajpai

Director- Neelima Bajpai

Star Cast- Avinash Mishra, Prachi  Bansal, Poulomi Das, Luv Vispute, Amitabh and Neil Sharma

Genre- Social

OTT Platform -Movie on Demand section of Book My Show

Rating- ***1/2 (Three and a half stars)

Heartwarmingly Hard Hitting!

Jyothi Venkatesh

Film touches your heart strings emotionally

At the outset, at the cost of even sounding quite biased towards this film, I should say that it is a very cute film, which touches your heart strings emotionally and makes you question those in society who tend to be judgmental and indulge in the sordid act of body shaming.

Looking at the film A Bra Ka D  Bra from a larger perspective, it is in some way or the other a story which can resonate with each and every young girl who is on the verge of adolescence and sets out to probe into their hearts and tries to communicate their dark secret desires.

While some are not happy with the size of their small or large as the case may be breasts, some aren’t really content with their skin color or height.

The film revolves around a small town girl Basketball player Bani

The film revolves around a dynamic starry eyed small town girl Basketball player Bani (Prachi Bansal) who moves from Hathras to Mumbai but only ends up getting body shamed, by everyone else in her college including the sophisticated girls, who are her classmates.

Bani is trying her level best to come to terms with the bitter truth that she is a flat chested girl who is dubbed unfairly a carrom board by all her classmates.

After trying everything, when she is at a desperate stage in her life battling trolls, Bani decides to go in for getting a surgery, after her attempts to get herself massaged with lotions and breast size –increasing tonics fail to achieve the required results.

Poor Bani ends up getting frustrated because she does not succeed in getting her breasts enlarged. But is that a real solution to her problems? Will it help regain her confidence?

This is what the film sets out to drive home in the form of a sugarcoated message at the end, when her father and her brother Piyush Awasthi (Neil Sharma) spring to her support and she realizes that superficial assets do not pay her in the long run

Poulomi Das  is secretly jealous of Bani’s good looks

While Prachi Bansal shines in her role as Bani lending it the right dimension that the sensitive role deserves, Avinash Mishra who plays Vidyut on whom Bani has a crush impresses with his demeanor.

Poulomi Das scores as her prickly girl friend Shanti who is secretly even jealous of Bani’s good looks while Luv Vispute, as Chanchal who is fighting shy of his body weight and girly demeanor hates himself for having been born with bulging breasts inside a man’s body is superb.

Amitabh, who plays Bani’s father is very endearing and plays the part perfectly with grace and charm

Kudos to Neelima Bajpai for her impressive and immaculate direction , especially since the film successfully narrates the daily hardships & affliction which average teenagers face due to stereotypical beauty standards set by society, which places undue importance on a young girl’s breasts while she is growing up and ends up pricking her self esteem.

To sum up, the heart warmingly hard hitting film should be watched by everyone who cares for good content but is unable to come across it and is content with sub standard stuff.