‘Call Me Bae’ review: A poor little rich woman’s coming of age is skin-deep
Collin D’Cunha’s comedy, led by Ananya Panday, is out on Prime Video.
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In the Prime Video series Call Me Bae, Ananya Panday plays Bella Chowdhary, a South Delhi heiress. Bae’s life capsizes when her high-profile marriage to Agastya (Vihaan Samat) ends badly after she’s caught canoodling with her personal trainer Prince (Varun Sood).
A disgraced Bae is dumped by her BFFs as well as ejected from family chats, WhatsApp groups and Delhi itself. Like Caroline Channing in the American sitcom Two Broke Girls, Bae finds herself with cancelled credit cards. She has to leave home with only her designer wardrobe and her Gram-fam as her support.
A penniless Bae moves to Mumbai, where she befriends Saira (Muskkan Jaferi), a trainee at a hotel. The unskilled Bae’s attempts at getting jobs are unsuccessful until a viral video of her shaming top-rated news anchor Satyajit Sen lands her an internship at the same channel.
Vir Das plays Satyajit – a send-up of a news anchor that viewers love to hate – with flamboyance and ferocity. Lisa Mishra is Harleen, producer of Sen’s prime time show Confessional. Gurfateh Pirzada plays Neel, Bae’s mentor and love interest.
Bae is the centre of attention of three men – one who has rejected her, one whom she has rejected, and one to whom she is attracted. Yet, Ananya Panday shares better...
