E01: Screenwriting Breakdown of Band Baaja Baaraat

Welcome to the screenwriting breakdown and analysis of Bollywood film Band Baaja Baaraat!

Yashraj Films’ genre-defining romcom starring Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma, written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Habib Faisal, and Maneesh Sharma, set the stage for new-age, young romcoms to take Bollywood by a storm.

In this episode of the Breakdown Besties, your film-school level screenwriting class experience, we analyze the techniques used in the script, to make the film come alive on the screen.

Here’s what we cover:

0:00 Introduction
1:27 Hero's Journey
15:27 Character creation techniques
26:36 World building techniques
31:04 Scene building techniques
42:28 Genre trope analysis
49:55 Dialogue analysis

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3) Watch Band Baaja Baaraat again, now with all the awareness of the techniques, and see how they’re executed to bring entertainment to life.

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