Bada Naam Karenge review: Weighed down by kitchen-sink politics, this Rajshri series is plain creaky

Or did we marque the guardant determination — Ratlam Junction, made celebrated with Jab We Met’s ‘main-toh-apni-favourite-hoon’ spirited Geet, finds a salient spot present — lone to instrumentality to epoch of the elders-and-betters-knowing-best-most-of-the-time, and the young had amended behave, oregon else?

Or adjacent much depressingly, was that little interlude of youthful state which keeps rearing its caput each decennary oregon so, an illusion? Is this who we ever were: a conformist nine which insists connected instant obedience successful the sanction of respect?

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In 2025’s ‘Bada Naam Karenge’, the meet-cute betwixt Ujjain miss Surbhi Gupta (Ayesha Kaduskar) and Ratlam lad Rishabh Rathi (Ritik Ghanshani), is saccharine and sanitised. Later successful the series, Surbhi tells Rishabh ‘ab sasur apni samdhan ke liye harmonium to nahin bajayenge’, oregon words to that effect, a straight-up notation to that country successful ‘HAHK’: sure, harmoniums whitethorn beryllium outmoded adjacent successful Tier 3 towns (this is an existent operation idiosyncratic uses here), but everything else, but the pesky pomeranian, is intact.

The large house, traditional-business aesthetic tethering tauji-taiji-mummy-papa-bua-phoopha, the lectures that frowning tauji (Kanwaljit) is acceptable with astatine the driblet of a hat, the hostility betwixt the taiji (Alka Amin) and the bua (Anjana Sukhani), and Rishabh’s parents (Rajesh Jais and Chitrali Lokesh Gupte), whose reasons, generated by the crafty phupha (Rajesh Tailang), we travel to larn by and by.

Rishabh himself is simply a exemplary young man, ‘agyakari’ to a fault, wanting to usage his B schoolhouse grade to beforehand the household business: their ‘mithai-ki-dukaan’ is celebrated successful each Ratlam, and helium wants to marque it celebrated everyplace other too.

The mediocre girl-rich lad people favoritism successful Barjatya’s ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ turns up successful the instauration of Surbhi’s much humble dwelling, with her prof begetter (Jameel Khan) , parent (Deepika Amin) and elder member (Gyandendra Tripathi), ever alert of the ‘ladka’ belonging to the ‘bada ghar’.

‘Bada Naam Karenge’ is yet different meta notation to an older movie, the mega-popular ‘Papa kehte hain’ opus from ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, which is, ironically, a movie which celebrated romanticist rebels. Here the rubric speaks to Rishabh making a sanction for his family, and for the nice, decent, ‘susheel’ miss helium has fixed his bosom to, ‘susheelta’ being the astir important diagnostic of what society, adjacent today, insists successful a girl. She is studying to beryllium a virologist, but isolated from telling america this, thing is mentioned of what she wants to do, different than getting married. And the struggle which arises betwixt the 2 families, which threatens to disrupt the imaginable aboriginal of the youngsters, feels unbelievably outdated.

Pushing past the constraints of their quality arcs revolving astir ‘maan-sammaan’ and ‘apmaan’, the ensemble does their occupation well. There is simply a chiseled sweetness betwixt Surbhi and Rishabh, and they marque an effort to not marque it cloying. He gets a accidental to get his point-of-view in, done which helium tries to close the incorrect done unto his aunt by his family, and the girl’s begetter is fixed a mates of lines, celebrating his daughter, which makes america consciousness that helium is with the times. But it truly is truthful little.

The remainder of it, weighed down by the kitchen-sink authorities perfected by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Films, is conscionable plain creaky.

Bada Naam Karenge cast: Ritik Ghanshani, Ayesha Kaduskar, Kanwaljit, Rajesh Jais, Alka Amin, Jameel Khan, Deepika Amin, Rajesh Tailang, Anjana Sukhani, Chaitrali Lokesh Gupte, Gyanendra Tripathi
Bada Naam Karenge director: Palash Vaswani
Bada Naam Karenge rating: 2 stars