Accordingly, the film will now see its immense release on 7 November a day already Sunny Singh’s ‘Ujda Chaman’, the film which also deals with same concept of premature balding, releases.

Directed by Amar Kaushik of ‘Stree’ fame, ‘Bala’ also stars Yami Gautam and Bhumi Pednekar. In this 2 minutes forty seven seconds of video, the makers introduces Ayushmann’s character who is facing premature balding issue and is trying all means to get a beautiful that means ‘fair’ lady for marriage. On the other hand there is Bhumi Pednekar who encounters Bala and is facing her own issues of dealing with a dark skin.

The trailer moves ahead with Ayushmann trying all means to regrow his hair. Failing to do so, his father decides to gift him with a wig which helps Bala to get married to a beautiful girl (Yami Gautam). But the real task for Bala starts post marriage when he tries hard to keep his secret of being bald with his wife.

The film sees Ayushmann’s reunion with his ‘Vicky Donar’ and ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’ actresses Yami Gautam and Bhumi Pednekar respectively. The film is expected to be the fun and quirky entertainer of the year. After the success of ‘Article 15’ and ‘Dreamgirl’, ‘Bala’ looks like the third straight success of the year 2019 for Ayushmann Khurrana.

Cast and Crew

Directed by

Amar Kaushik

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)

Niren Bhatt
Ravi Shankar Muppa	…	(Additional Screenplay)

Cast

	Ayushmann Khurrana
	Bhumi Pednekar
	Yami Gautam
	Abhishek Banerjee
	Saurabh Shukla
	Javed Jaffrey
	Manoj Pahwa
	Seema Bhargava
	Sunita Rajwar	…	Bala’s Mother
	Sachin Chaudhary	…	Young Bala

Crew

Produced by

Sanjeev Mishra	…	line producer
Ashok Shetty	…	line producer
Yogiraj Shetty	…	Post producer
Dinesh Vijan	…	producer

Cinematography by

Anuj Rakesh Dhawan

Film Editing by

Hemanti Sarkar

Casting By

Anmol Ahuja
Abhishek Banerjee

Art Direction by

Amrish Patange
Dayanidhi Patturajan

Costume Design by

Sheetal Sharma

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Vipasha Arvind

…

script supervisor

Art Department

Ankita Lad

…

assistant art director

Sound Department

Bulganin Baruah	…	dialogue editor
Shajith Koyeri	…	sound designer
Ravi Dev Singh	…	sound mixer

Visual Effects by

Jimish Shah

…

sr production coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department

Shankar Babu	…	key grip
Yohan Fernandes	…	second assistant cinematographer

Casting Department

Kashish Arora

…

casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Amul Narvekar	…	dressman
Deepika Pardeshi	…	1st assistant costume designer

Thanks

Karan Johar

…

very special thanks

Controversy Between these two Films

National Award-winning actor Ayushmann Khurrana has opened up on comparisons his upcoming film “Bala” has drawn with “Ujda Chaman”, and the subsequent controversy that has erupted, saying “we shot our film first, announced our film first”.

While “Ujda Chaman” is an official remake of the Kannada film “Ondu Motteya Kathe”, Ayushmann insists that once his film releases, the audience will realize the story of “Bala” is original.

“We shot our film first, announced our film first. There’s just one line which is similar, otherwise, it’s a different film. I’ve seen the South Indian film (on which ‘Ujda Chaman’ is based) after we completed the shoot. Once you see the film you’ll realize (the difference),” said Ayushmann.

For those who came in late, the problem arose because both the comedies have protagonists who are young men suffering from premature balding. Ayushmann, however, says his film is not just about the woes of premature balding.

“It (“Bala”) isn’t about just receding hair or baldness. It is about loving and discovering yourself, more than anything else,” he explained.

Things got complicated when the makers of “Bala” confirmed the release date of their film was November 8, the same as “Ujda Chaman”. Subsequently, “Ujda Chaman” has been preponed to November 1, even as the makers of the film have dragged the “Bala” producers to court.