After breaking several box office records worldwide, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starrer “Barbie,” directed by Greta Gerwig, has finally made its way to the OTT platform.
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“Barbie,” the biggest film of the year featuring Margot Robbie as the iconic Barbi and Ryan Gosling as Ken, is now available for rent on Prime Video at ₹499. The film was released on July 21 alongside Christopher Nolan’s “Openheimer” and created quite a buzz, establishing itself as a significant event in the film industry. It even led to the rise of the term “Barbenheimer.” (Read also: “Barbenheimer” breaks several box office records worldwide with its opening weekend collection: Report)
Barbie on OTT
On Tuesday, Prime Video shared a poster of Barbi on their social media accounts with the caption, “Have you heard us say ‘Hi, Barbie’? is now available on #PrimeVideoStore, rent it now.”
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Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, became the first female director to helm a film that grossed over $1 billion at the global box office. Apart from Margot Robbie as Barbi and Ryan Gosling as Ken, the film boasts an ensemble cast that includes America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Dua Lipa, Emerald Fennell, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Michael Sheen, and Will Ferrell. The movie’s premise revolves around Barbi and Ken getting expelled from Utopian Barbi Land due to not fitting the ideal doll standards and embarking on a journey of self-discovery in the real world.
A part of the Hindustan Times review of the film states, “Pink is an environment of curious mimicry, a curious mimicry for a satire. Greta does not criticise Mattel for its choices in the co-production and marketing of Barbi. Commercial decisions, but in one scene, the production house Warner Brothers also gets a dig for mishandling Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Nevertheless, at a point, satire appears self-defeating. After Barbi, it is Ken’s leadership that vilifies them, stirring them against each other, strengthening the belief that women are the reason men fight each other.”
In an interview with Fandango, star Margot Robbie had doubted they could ever make a Barbie-like film. She said, “When I read the script, I thought, ‘This is brilliant, and they’ll never let us make it.’ It’s so subversive that it’s going to get completely ruined. Just because it’s not that the film is unexpected, but that Greta has pushed it in that direction. I didn’t think they’d let us go inside. A big part of it was accepting what people had a problem with Barbie, and also what people loved about Barbie.
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