Bhalla Calling Bhalla is a unique web series made entirely under lockdown. The web series features popular newcomers like Gracie Goswami and Laneesh Mattoo along with popular comedians Gaurav Gera, Rajesh Kumar and Lubna Salim. All the footage of this web series has been shot by the actors in their homes with mobile phones. And put together with director Deven Munjal and editors Utsav Bhagat and Ankit Kadam. This web series explores a new genre of filmmaking at the time of lockdown.
Zee5 Bhalla Calling Bhalla Story
The night the lockdown was announced, the same day started. Lovely Bhalla (Lubna Salim) is in Gurgaon, while her husband, Mr. Bhalla (Rajesh Kumar) is on a business trip in Chandigarh. His daughter Liza / Arundhati (Gracie Goswami) is studying in Jaipur and her son Sahil (Linesh Mattoo) is a struggling actor in Mumbai. They all plan to go back to Gurgaon for Lovely’s birthday but are delaying their plans.
Once the lockdown starts, they cannot go back home. Meanwhile Lovely’s brother, Yogi, gives him a birthday gift only to find out that the shopkeeper from whom he bought the gift must have tested positive for coronavirus!
This web series takes the popular social media format of phone video clips and polishes it to make it like a full web series. While only the first 4 episodes of the series have been released, the series promises as it accurately portrays life under lockdown with a family that is only slightly insane compared to yours.
Scenes of vigorous hand washing, celebrating birthdays on video calls, rationing alcohol too long hours are all related. The web series also shows how various people are dealing with lockdowns. While Sahil gets depressed and just sits in his car to leave the house, Arundhati decides to feed the pets.
Zee5 Bhalla Calling Bhalla Trailer
Zee5 Bhalla Calling Bhalla Cast Performance
Rajesh Kumar, who became famous for playing Roshish in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, is playing the role of a modern cool dad in the series and instead of saying bad poems about his mother, he recites bad poems for his wife and alcohol. Gaurav Gera plays the role of a yogi, a lonely man, who is already in lockdown before it starts.
Zee5 Bhalla Calling Bhalla Review
Lubna Salim as Maa Lovely Bhalla is the most interesting character in the web series. But the real protagonist of the web series is the script that shows a family continuing to share laughter, fights and escalating even while they live together during the fight. Watch this web series which is highly reliable and a new form of entertainment. Bhalla Calling Bhalla has 10-minute episodes that reveal the fun side of life at home for middle-class Indian families under lockdown.
Zee5 Bhalla Calling Bhalla Season 2
Watch the first 4 episodes of Bhalla Calling Bhalla streaming on ZEE5 and release the next 4 episodes on 25 May 2020 and the last 4 episodes on 30 May 2020.
