Bawaal

A dramedy that chronicles a tour of the Holocaust? Wait a minute, does that ring a bell? Nitesh Tiwari's Bawaal with its disastrous use of Auschwitz as a metaphor for relationship issues immediately comes to mind. None of that embarrassment occurs in A Real Pain, the new film by actor-director Jesse Eisenberg, which marked its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. For all its playfulness and humour, A Real Pain strikes an intimate balance between the horrifying history of the Holocaust and the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA new Bollywood film has been accused of “trivialising” the deaths of millions of Jews killed during the Holocaust.The film Bawaal, directed by filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari and starring actors Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan, follows the story of a small-town school teacher who agrees to an arranged match with a woman suffering from epilepsy. The couple takes a trip to Europe to visit World…

Much of this almost wondrously misjudged Bollywood film is perfectly palatable: the tale of a limited man redeemed by his far superior wife. Varun Dhawan plays Ajay, a history teacher who is fixated on projecting the impression that he is a tough cookie with a perfect life. His pupils are in his thrall, and allow him to doss in lessons rather than teach them; everyone in his city (Lucknow in northern India) seems to have bought into the myth, too. One person who hasn’t, however, is his new wife Nisha (Janhvi Kapoor), whom…

Bawaal, the latest love and action movie starring actors Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor, OTT release is getting very near. Nitesh Tiwari originally planned to release the movie in theaters after the big hits of Dangal and Chhichhore, but it skipped its theatrical release and instead announced an OTT release, creating excitement among the fans for the latest Bollywood romance film. The movie is directed by Tiwari and written by Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, and Nikhil Mehrotra.Now, Bawaal film is all set to make its OTT…