E01: Band Baaja Baaraat Screenwriting Breakdown

Breakdown Besties | Bollywood Screenwriting Podcast · Mar 5, 2026 · 53m

Welcome to the screenwriting breakdown and analysis of Bollywood film Band Baaja Baaraat!

Yashraj Films’ genre-defining romcom starring Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma, written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Habib Faisal, and Maneesh Sharma, set the stage for new-age, young romcoms to take Bollywood by a storm.

In this episode of the Breakdown Besties, your film-school level screenwriting class experience, we analyze the techniques used in the script, to make the film come alive on the screen.

Here’s what we cover:

0:00 Introduction

1:26 Hero's Journey

14:57 Character creation techniques

25:58…