The balding film face-off
While Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Bala focuses on premature balding, another film made on the same subject, called Ujda Chaman, is all set for release.
Billed as Takle ki pehli aur asli film (the first and real story of a bald man), the movie starring Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety actor Sunny Singh along with Maanvi Gangroo, Aishwarya Sakhuja and Karishma Sharma, is set to release on November 8.
‘Ujda Chaman’ is a slang term used to describe people who are bald.
The release date of Bala was earlier announced as November 15 after being preponed from November 22. “There is one technical issue as well. The first stage of shooting involves me with a smaller bald patch. The next shoot will have me seen with a larger bald patch and hence that is not a possibility that I keep on losing hair during the shoot. That is the reason that I will need the help of prosthetics to look bald,” Ayushmann told us a while back.
However, judging by the announcement of Ujda Chaman’s release date, it does seem that Bala will miss the fun by a hair’s breadth.
Abhishek Pathak directs Ujda Chaman, while Amar Kaushik, who had earlier directed Stree, directs Bala.