When I say our crew put these rods to the test, I mean it. It’s hard not to recognize the brand in the slick design and colors of the Tidal series, but that handle certainly sells it as Bubba through and through. If you choose to max out with the Pro, you’re buying a rod with high-end Fuji reel seats and guides, 30T Toray graphite construction, and a carbon fiber handle.Īnd the Bubba legacy baked into each rod is the iconic nonslip grip you’re used to seeing on its knife collection and beyond. But move up to the Select model and you’re looking at corrosion-resistant Fuji components and 24/30 Toray. The basic option features corrosion-resistant steel guides and 24-ton Toray. The main difference between each option is simple: hardware and materials. Each rod is available in 7′ and 7’6″, and the base model also comes in a shorter 6’10” option. Each rod also has a few different lengths available. The Series comprises a basic Tidal Spinning Rod ($140), a Tidal Select Spinning Rod ($200), and a Tidal Pro Spinning Rod ($330).Īcross the board, you have four types of power to pick from each rod: Medium, Medium Light, Medium Heavy, and Heavy. But Latika, infinitely more aware of the notion of true beauty than any other character in the story, never goes beyond likening his balding pate with the moon while she herself holds her own in the face of constant pinpricks.Not gonna lie, these guys do a helluva job explaining the engineering behind how these inshore rods came to life. She gets her own back when the insensitive schoolboy grows up and is assailed by alopecia in his early 20s. He has the mirror in the bathroom half covered so that the part of his face above the forehead in hidden from his sight.īala's reluctant sounding board in his endeavour to rise above his shortcoming is Latika Trivedi (an overly darkened Bhumi Pednekar), his classmate from school, who he grew up ridiculing for her complexion. He can't bear to see his fast receding hairline. But it is his own life that has become a joke. He wants to make a mark as a stand-up comedian. The story, narrated by Vijay Raaz impersonating the commodity that is in short supply on Bala's head, flows smoothly in the first half, hits a few hurdles in the initial portions of the second, and finally recovers to reach a finale that delivers a strong blow on behalf of body positivity and highlights the unrealistic standards of beauty that the media and cosmetic brands impose on our collective psyche.īala is a salesman who peddles a fairness cream for a beauty products firm that claims to use "ayurvedic chemicals", a contradiction of terms that sums up the intrinsic fakery involved in the cosmetics industry. In a later scene, he blames his own insensitivity as a boy for his current perceived misfortune. And all three actors effortlessly hit the right notes, reflecting the charming, easy flowing nature of the film.īala Movie Review: Ayushmann surrenders himself completely to the demands of the roleĪyushmann Khurrana surrenders himself completely to the demands of the role, conveying the ups and downs, actually mostly downs, of the cocky Bal 'Bala' Mukund Shukla, who, as a teenager, saw himself as the Shah Rukh Khan of Kanpur. In one of the film's funniest scenes, all three men, at the lowest point of the hero's life, mimic Amitabh Bachchan. He tries out, as the narrator tells us, "210 cures in two months" at the behest of his hairdresser-friend (Abhishek Banerjee) and the know-it-all Bachchan bhai (Javed Jaffery), who assumes the mantle of a well-meaning adviser. Laced with wit and humour, this comic take on the plight of the lead character essayed by Ayushmann Khurrana, is presented as a series of mishaps brought on by his own inability to deal with hair loss and dwindling self-esteem. It is a breezy drama on a prickly theme that sustains its sense of proportion and its control over a challenging narrative arc. In Bala, directed by Amar Kaushik and written by Niren Bhatt, a similar (yet intrinsically different) story-line yields a far more salutary result - a film that, give and take a few minor wobbles along the way, strikes at the root of the societal and mental blocks that prevent people from reconciling themselves with their looks and facing the world with confidence. Just last week, in the listless Ujda Chaman, we were witness to the sad spectacle of a misguided man grappling with premature balding and tying himself up in knots.
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