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

1:26 Hero's Journey

14:57 Character creation techniques

25:58 World building techniques

30:27 Scene building techniques

41:37 Genre trope analysis

49:04 Dialogue analysis

And after you’re done watching the episode, we recommend you watch Band Baaja Baaraat again, now with all the awareness of the techniques, and see how they’re executed to bring entertainment to life.

So whether you’re in the heart of Bollywood in Mumbai, refining your craft for your next gig, or making your way here from near and far – we’re sure the Breakdown Besties Podcast will further the course of your screenwriting craft and career.

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