Baal Baal Bach Gaye

About Baal Baal Bach Gaye

Some people ask for money or status. The heroine of this Geo telefilm (Ayesha Khan) asks for hair, and she is not shy about it: no proposal gets past her unless the man arrives with a thick, healthy head of it. Then she meets the one who seems to tick every other box (Humayun Saeed), a charmer she could genuinely see herself marrying, right up to the moment she learns that the crowning glory on his head is not actually his. Bushra Ansari builds the whole comedy on that single, gloriously petty deal-breaker, and lets it run through an ensemble that includes Hina Dilpazir, Sumbul Shahid and Shamim Hilali. It is a one-sitting farce about vanity, the small lies people tell to be chosen, and how fast a non-negotiable rule starts sounding negotiable when the right person is standing in front of you.