Call Me Bae Review: A Riches-to-Rags to Success Story With Ananya Panday In It

 Call Me Bae Review: A Riches-to-Rags to Success Story With Ananya Panday In It

Highlights

• Call Me Bae marks Ananya Panday’s web series debut
• It is also available to stream in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
• Social media influencers Orry and Urvashi Rautela have small cameos

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  Call Me Bae

There are films that run on extensive research and make you introspect, and then there are others that don't have an ounce of practicality and make it to the audience's guilty pleasure watchlist. Prime Video's latest original series, Call Me Bae, falls into the latter category. It is essentially the story of an uber-rich Bella “Bae” Chowdhary, who has been disowned by her family and is now trying to restart her life from scratch in Mumbai.

Sounds familiar? Well, that's because we have seen the storyline millions of times across genres. Call Me Bae heavily borrows elements from similar works done in the past, including Schitt's Creek, 2 Broke Girls, and Sonam Kapoor's Aisha. It would remind you of Kareena Kapoor Khan's fashion-conscious Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., or Legally Bloonde's sorority queen-turned-Harvard-educated-lawyer Reese Witherspoon on more than one occasion— the classic trope of a seemingly air-headed girl who, turns out, is a genius!

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