Romantic comedies never go out of style. Especially in the Hindi cinema space, we have been exposed to countless films in this genre, so much so that this whole genre has cultivated another subgenre, romantic comedies based in small towns in our country. Only a handful of them clicked with the audience. Bareilly ki Barfi, Badhaai Ho, Sui Dhaga, and Dum Laga ke Haisha are some examples of well-executed romantic comedies set in rural India where the essence was never lost. Nitesh Tiwari’s Bawaal a Prime Video Original, starring Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor, brings to the table the tale of two people with two different opinions about life who cross paths through their marriage.

Bawaal, loosely translated to chaos, is about Lucknow-based Ajay Dixit, fondly known as ‘Ajju bhaiyya.’ He is a young, dashing history teacher at a local school who is so caught up in building his...