Balu Mahi's actors might be the best part of the film But it drops the ball at a few places - and quite noticeably so, which mars our overall enjoyment of the film.īut first, the good parts. The film thus tries to balance Balu and Mahi’s role as its didactic mouthpieces with the more fun parts of the narrative, making it a fairly solid commercial fare. All the while, the film’s message about women’s rights is intermittently hammered into the script. The adventure stretches over two and a half hours, during which we see some song and dance sequences, a fair number of LOL moments and lots of pretty shots of Pakistan. Balu follows her around, partly because he feels responsible for her safety and partly because he is fascinated by this strange ebullient being who is unconsciously healing his broken heart. Mahi just wants to live her own life, not what her traditional family demands of her. So starts the adventure of Balu Mahi - a long-winded, two-part journey that takes the duo through old Lahore and beyond with Mahi’s family of quasi-goons in hot pursuit. Mahi isn’t too keen on her husband-to-be (or marriage at all, for that matter), so she runs away with him anyway.
In Balu Mahi, we see the blooming of an accidental love.īalu (Osman Khalid Butt) crashes the wrong wedding and professes his undying love to the wrong bride, that is, Mahi (Ainy Jaffri Rahman, while she’s hidden under a ghoonghat).
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