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Ananya Panday’s debut web series Call Me Bae, directed by Collin D’Cunha and backed by Karan Johar, premiered on Prime Video on Friday. She plays the lead role of Bae aka Bela Choudhary in the series, which traces her journey from ‘riches to poverty’. Read this also | OTT releases worth watching this week: Call Me Bae, Kill, The Perfect Couple and more
Many people, who have already watched the series, which is being called ‘India’s Emily in Paris’ by a section of social media users, have taken to X (formerly Twitter) to share their reviews about Call Me Bae.
Twitter gets honest about Call Me Bae
Someone tweeted, “Call Me Bay is so non-serious that I love it…” Another x user praised Vir Das, who joins Ananya in the series, writing, “I will always have respect for whoever thought of casting Vir Das as a crazy caricature of a TV news anchor in Call Me Bay.”
An ex user said, “Call me bae was really fun to watch!! Sister code ftw (sister code for the win).” Another agreed, tweeting, “OMG (Oh my God) Call me bae is so much fun!!! Ananya was born to play such roles.”
‘I started watching Call Me Bae and I loved it?’
One tweet also read, “I’ve been watching a lot of ghost stories lately and couldn’t sleep all night, so I started watching Call Me Bae and I loved it. It’s now 7am and I have to log in to work at 11am… overall no sleep.”
One person, who was not very impressed, joked, “I have just watched Ananya Panday’s web series Call Me Bae. And after that I have decided to make a new web series Call Me C****** based on what I have watched.” Another said, “Call Me Bae is basically Ananya Panday’s ‘Sangharsh’ journey from South Delhi to South Mumbai.”
More information about the series
An excerpt from Hindustan Times’ Call Me Bay review reads, “Ananya is very much Bay. Whether it stems from her superpower of distancing herself from her own specialty and examining it from Siddhant Chaturvedi’s perspective, or simply the solid crutch of impeccable writing, Ananya ensures that Bay is always funny, unabashedly self-deprecating and surprisingly so. Filmmakers have capitalized on her goofiness in the past both cleverly (Gehreyaan) and less cleverly (Liger), but as she showed in her last film Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, Ananya is capable of playing roles that require her to stretch herself beyond her perceived personality and competence.”
The comedy-drama series, which addresses themes such as privilege, empowerment and the impact of social media, also stars Gurfateh Pirzada, Varun Sood, Vihaan Samat along with Muskaan Jaffrey, Niharica Lyra Dutt, Lisa Mishra and Mini Mathur. Call Me Bae is produced by Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta and Somen Mishra.
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