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Maamla Legal Hai (2024– )

Almost Perfect Family Show...Exceptionally Good

[9/10 · 6 March 2024]

It is a rare show. Hardly you will find everything fitting so perfectly. Every single character, their perfect movement and presence in every frame, crisp editing and cinematography, moving background score, narration and direction, serious issues told with humour....humour which has lost these days from the world of entertainment, that too sensible satirical which once India would enjoy with Jaspal Bhatti show or Office Office or films like Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.....God knows how in this era that old scent has returned with this show.

It takes a very different take on the lawyers fraternity than what we have seen in Bollywood films. A lower court and all its staffs becomes your day to day world to see through their lens, where they have their own mundane and humane issues while they fight for various exponents of world outside. Cases are peculiar and arguments are equally scintillating. Amid this all lives of every staff in that court is shown with immense humour and emotion.

All actors have done a great team work. Every character becomes memorable in this 8 episodes series. Be it PP Saheb or poster of human dignity the Monkey man.... This show is an example of blast of talents OTT can bring. But Ravi Kishan has given a lifetime performance. You start wanting to see him more and more and start wishing man why this actor made so less films and shows.

Finally, it is DNA of TVF as its maker is one of the founding members of TVF, Sameer Saxena while another founding member Nidhi Bisht played terrific role of Sujata. TVF and its DNA has become a guarrentee of great show which today Indian cinema be south or Bollywood can't give you. Bravo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 This show is a must watch, the best humorous show in years which will also leave you warm and emotional with an end where you would want to wait for its next season to sink again in the world of VD Tyagi and friends! Congrats Netflix for getting another great show.

Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya (2024)

Fresh Comedy with Message

[9/10 · 18 February 2024]

After seeing the critics poor review and some reports I had dropped the idea to watch this one. But on casual family outing we just walked in cinema hall and came out after a 2:30 min laugh riot. After long time have watched such comedy, a genre which is tough to make, and tougher specially in the current days of cinema. Must congratulate the makers that in this senile era of Indian films where rotten South Indian films and films like Animal with mindless detailing of violence to capitalise on extreme negative emotions has become trend, some one is still capable to make good comedy movie.

The film picks on the area of Artificial Intelligence and the implications it is destined to bring in day to day lives of us. You may laugh it off as just a fantasy, but those who do it including myself, know very well to what level it has already reached and where it is going to be. If you don't believe, just open OpenAI's Sora and see it yourself that this alone is going to wipe out entire careers in film making. You give a story script and the software will generate breathtaking film with every details. The first casualty is going to be the ad making my agencies.

This film has touched upon the big pertaining questions on human emotions and how an intelligent AI robot can place itself. It raises very sensitive questions on what makes a human human and how one would fail to differentiate between a robot and a human. How we expect some defect in all of us and how total lack of such defect may be a great thing to boast and score but deep inside how it makes us wanting to expect defects to make us love those who have defects.

It is not that none had made such movies before. Spielberg's AI was first such movie and Sir Robin Williams's Bicentennial Man are one of much before raised great movies. And the. Robot I was another good movie made by Ranikant( Robot II was terribly bad). But this movie scores on the intelligent way emotions and comedy has been mixed with rightly placed questions and situations.

The movie scores on situations created and aptly execution of the screenplay. Every department is very good. All performances are good but Kirti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor stand out. In the present generation of actors, after watching the movie I can say now that Kirti Sanon is the best female actor. She has nailed the role and you fall in love with her character of Sifra. I eagerly wait for the next season of this movie. Highly recommended with family ( barring two scenes, this movie is out and out family watch). Go with you family and enjoy a good weekend 👍

Dunki (2023)

Mindless crap

[3/10 · 23 December 2023]

This is another film of Hirani which shows how low he has gone and Munnabhai was his best.

Dunki is full of logicless emotional nonesense, telling us that western world should allow free entry of people. This way then India too should be opened for Rohangiyas and Syrians and Pakistanis so that they flood India with problems and make its infrastructure collapse like what is happening in Europe where nations like Sweden and Germany have become Cade example of how a very stable nation can get into collapse once you allowed people from Middle East.

If you can do so much struggle to reach USA then why not do lesser and better struggle and educate yourself and make yourself useful manpower for the world? Hirani film has tossed away entire logical arguments and converted the movie into emotional nautanki which also makes you feel bored. Better watch some OTT show than such dull movies.

Kaala Paani (2023– )

Masterpiece in every aspect

[9/10 · 14 December 2023]

While entire Indian film industry has seeped into gutter, Indian OTT is continuously rising the bar. And this web series is new pinnacle in this rise.

Exceptional at every front, a story told with equally exceptionally beautiful backdrop of Andaman. It takes a prop of an epidemic outbreak to reveal various layers of human emotions when even the lost cases are capable to rise to the occasion.

So many characters and so many stories running in parallel all interlinked by a common disaster and revealing themselves with time...narrating such parallel story with such ease only a master story teller can achieve...and that runs in the blood of TVF guys...Biswapati Sarkar, the same TVF guy whom we have already seen with shows like The Pitchers, Yours Bishtly, Arnub Show, etc etc like spoofs written and done for TVF...and very same TVF man Sameer Saxena...together they have come here to present a master class on an epic scale story telling. Grand way that too. Supported by equally grand production value and quality....so much so that after Bahubali I found this series worthy enough to cover the silver screen of cinema halls for its brilliance at every department with larger than life like canvas capturing astonishing beauty of Andaman.

And what to tell about the performance. Praising just some of them would be a sin as almost every single artist has done exceptional job. But my heart was taken away by two ultra exceptional performances: Vikas Kumar as Santosh Sawla and Sukant Goel as Chiru. They come into your skin and rule your heart with their transformations. Such actors are blessings to the world of cinema. The scene where Santosh learns his wife's plan to send him away...is such a moving scene which you would not have watched in last 5 years of any Indian film. That single scene alone deserves highest applause and recognition of performance, directions, writing and screenplay.

I accidentally stumbled upon this web series and now it's itched in my heart. Netflix will always be proud of such show and so will be Indian entertainment industry. I just wonder why to this date our Indian film industry failed to see the grandeurs and beauty of Andaman which perhaps for the first time this series has achieved! Many things to learn for this rotten Indian film industry. Kaala Paani has left them behind by eons!

Commandos (2020)

Pakau with overdose of jingoism

[5/10 · 11 August 2023]

In the era where you watch The Family Man like top class spy web series with crispness in almost every department, finding web series like this one makes you wonder how these people get so easy money to waste with such typical Bollywood mediocrity despite knowing that people would not like it.

Same India Pakistan story with utterly childish plot where some Covid like virus is being introduced in India by Pakistani general. Man come on. Those days are gone when we competed with Pakistan...today it is complex global network, and China is the major threat. This is where subject and script totally fail.

But worse is screen play and direction, ultra tacky and patchy performance.

I don't know what kind of intelligence these people carry, but we can't ignore that we are living in an era where OTT is ruling with contents like TVFs Sandeep Bhaiyya or Panchayat or The Family Man Made in Heaven Rocket Boys Scam.....so many good shows giving tough time to Bollywood...amid this all you find such gibberish jingoistic stuff!

Bawaal (2023)

Something wrong is going with Film critics

[8/10 · 23 July 2023]

F9r past few years it appeared that bollywood has lost the sense of comedy. But this year three ultimate back to back comedy films I have totally fallen in love with: Kathal, then Bhediya, and now this one. I just wonder why some professional film critics are writing negative about this such a solid comedy movie. Something wrong is going on with film reviewers. They wrote bad about Tarla, but i found it entertaining. They wrote bad for Satyaprem ki Katha, but again it was a good movie...They wrote bad about Bhediya, but again it was a good movie. And then they wrote bad about this film also, and this one also we all loved. So in nutshell I learn that stop reading critics review as something wrong is going with them.

Loved the movie. Full comedy. Though the topic is sensitive but dealt with full humor. Not a single dull moment.

A man discovers some health issue in his wife and literall6 tortures her untill a day he himself becomes victim of his conduct.

Authentic setup and Lucknow further adds to the comedy. Europe locales are beautiful. Cinematography is solid. All actors have done great job but chemistry of Jhanvi and Varun Dhawan stands out. The fenku type chipra guy role played by Varun Dhawan is just hilarious. Every character is so well concieved.

Bhediya (2022)

Insane Comedy with very important message

[9/10 · 28 May 2023]

I just watched it as it just got released on OTT at Jio Cinema. It was such a pleasant surprise. I had not laughed so heavily and for so long for a good long time. The story teller has taken a totally different route with insanely funny comedic take to deliver a very important message: be respectful to nature, preserve it.

Breathtaking cinematography and crisp editing. Hilarious comedy where Abhishek Banerjee takes away the biggest points. After Badlapur I will rate Bhediya as the best work of Varun Dhawan. Just surprised why this great movie did not score high on box office. Really looks now people any way don't want to go to cinema halls. Film industry should try thinking about making digital release simultaneously through OTT where one could pay and watch the film on the spot, just like a home ticket counter. Time is changing and you too should change with it.

Jehanabad - Of Love & War (2023– )

One of the best webseries ruined by a cheap last minute scene

[8/10 · 7 February 2023]

I was just hooked to the entire series and can say that it is one of the best webseries ever made. Romance and conspiracy both were brewing aide by side. From camera to dialect dilaogues to direction and performances...everything was spot on. No dull moment or drag aa story keeps taking new turns regular.

By the end of all 10 episodes when you start feeling that you watched a great show...God knows from where the Director and writer turn suddenly into a DCKHD....and set a great example how a great story and wonderful show can be ruined in just 1 minute..and that 1 minute scene comes at the very end..totally unwanted meaningless and just like a nightmare in a run of good dreams.

If you just stop the show at the last shootout scene, thjs entire web series will rule your heart as the best web series of this year so far. But if you move to the end, you will start hating it.

So many great performances, such a solid true story...you feel for it man. Had some good friend of the writer and director suggested them to remove the last 1 minute scene! But nah..naxal sympathetic Mr. Sudhir Mishra like idiot was the show runner who must have ensured such end of otherwise a great web series.

Watch it until last 1 minute, and its among the best web series made ever.

Freddy (2022)

Best movie of Katik Aryan's career

[9/10 · 5 December 2022]

I had a very poor experience of watching Kartik Aryan's films. None of them impressed me ever and all overhyped. I could not understand how a dull movie like Bhool Bhulaiyya 2 could become hit. His Dhamaka gave me headache. But here is the movie and performance of Kartik Aryan which stands out as his best.

A story of revenge by a simple boy who just wantwd to have someone his life and live a normal life. The superfast world around gave him only mocking and insults. Finally those thought themselves as hunters, got themselves hunted. Story is predicatable but treatment is fresh. There are some pitfalls also, but that liberty is expected when purpose of the movie is poetic justice.

The beauty of the movie is definitely its performances, script and execution. Cinematography and editing are excellent also. It ia definitely a good hindi film coming out from otherwise dead bollywood.

Dahan: Raakan Ka Rahasya (2022– )

Gabdaap web series

[3/10 · 21 September 2022]

Pathetic screenplay. Looks as if next character forgot gis dilagoes. Even school annual function shows are bwtter than this. And Tisca chopra as "District Magistrate" was so unfit that it looked as DM means Bai ji..no dialogue modulation...nasal tone with seductive delivery.. Unnecessary charasi angle of kids..husband of dm laughing like maniac for 15 minutes in 20 min episode...and gr8 act9rs like Sudhir Tailang and Kallu Mama wasted loke jokers...Iss director air screenwriter ki kaa. Pkaad ke inko TVF ke shows dikha ke training deni chahiye..aaj ke date me ja. OTT webseries ka level Bollywood ki maar raha hai to how they can make such poor web series. Aur bhai Tisca Chopra is n9t even a basic actor..aese ghatiya actors log cast kaese kar sakte hain????? Dristi Dhami, Mrunal, Shreya Dhanvantari, there r so manh better options.

Saas Bahu Achaar Pvt. Ltd. (2022– )

Another masterpiece of story telling from TVF

[9/10 · 13 July 2022]

The story is predictable but despite of that you stay hooked...that is the power of narration, writing, direction and screenplay. Almost every department is top notch.

Cinematography is brilliant. Dialogues are deep. Music is weak.

On acting department, people may sympathesize with Suman but show stealers are the characters of Daadi, Shuklaji, and daughter of Suman. I am first time seeing the actress who played Daadi and the actor Shuklaji. They are revelations...ab tak aese actors kahan chipe the bhai? Just watch the body laguage of Shukla ji a struggling street side sales man who sells belt but truly wants to be seen as a professional salesman. Daadi..so chilled and morale bosting saas which every lady would want to have. Both these characters bring hope in the otherwise struggling life of Suman. Rest of the actors too have done great job.

It is just surprising for me how TVF is delivery one after another show which immediately goes deep in your heart. I really fail to understand why bollywood like big industry is failing to achieve even 10 percent of what TVF is achieving today in the world of entertainment. Highly recommended as a pure family how.

Rocket Boys (2022– )

A Show on Which Every Indian will be Proud

[10/10 · 6 February 2022]

In its entire career Bollywood could not do what this OTT webseries has done.... A True Tribute to Real Father and Makers of Modern Independent India. Since off late India has become so unscientific nation, loathing with corrupt politician and society, that if you ask any one about Homi Bhabha or Sarabhai...they would not even know these real heroes and father of modern India.

Leave it aside, we live in a time where abusing and blaming Nehru has become a culture..those abuse him who themselves r not educated, know nothing, but abuse and blame it for every sorry state. Watch this show and learn how Nehru stood strongly behind science and scientists of India unlike the present time when our country does not spend even one percent of is budget on science and research, but gives hollow slogans like Make in India or AtmNirbhar Bharat..and same time deducts budget of Science & Technology and allocated 2600 crore budget fund the same year for Central Vista and new Parliament, that too in Covid times when our scientists slogged without funding for past 3 years.

From Cinematography, to story, to directions, BGOM to performances...everything is at top notch. A nation whih has been obsessed either with Romance or Guns holders as their heros, here comes a masterpiece show which also educates you to know truth of new India and its birth, its real heroes and sacrifices they made without caring for it. ANd what to tell on Bollywood man...its dead force..they should hide themselves in shame for wasting themselves...especially after watching the level content repeatedly coming from OTTs of India....our OTT webseries are becoming international quality, top notch stuffs...something on which also India should take pride. Do yourself a favor and watch this webseries on SonyLiv.

Aspirants (2021– )

Bollywood is Dead, TVF is the Future: Masterpiece Stuff

[10/10 · 12 April 2021]

With time it is now getting clear that creativity, merit and quality has inverse relationship with Bollywood, a mafia kingdom of substandard people...But same time it has direction proportionality to TVF like OTT platform. Just see that how with time OTT has matured with world class stuffs. And TVF is the best example of that. TVF which used to look a spoof content platform with amateurish people trying to come with fresh ideas untill we started seeing content like Yeh Meri Family and Pitchers...is now giving us finest quality shows, one after another. Just take a look on this series of top rated shows from them in past couple of years: Kota Factory, Panchayat, Gullak 1, Gullak 2, and now this masterpiece.

You need to notice the way these guys have put picture perfect stuff in almost every department, and all of them showing great evolution with time: Cinematography is exceptional, screenplay and writing is exceptional with some phenomenal dialogues, direction and editing is class apart stuff...and what to say about performances...mindblowing. Every actor has caught the understanding of their character to such a perfection. I jsut give an example. Just notice the perfection of performance of a comedy scene by Ghuri while drinking...he wanted IAS vehicle having siren sounding Peon Peon Peon...gulping beer...then again continuing Peon peon Peon....and suddenly GF phone comes and voice changes! Preaching goes away! Or the liberative speeches with excellent pausitivity by Sunny HInduja aka Sandeep Bhaiyya...makes you feel that everyone in this world needs one Sandeep Bhaiyya. The opening scene with SK giving lecture in the IAS coaching is a phenomenal scene with phenomenal dialogue, exceptional edition and cinematography, and equally great BGM...which gives you the sense of the way show arrives when he says "Doob jao mere Kachuwon is samundar me..." and the way BGM picks up with panoromic view of skyscrapper of central Delhi. Almost every department at sync, bolstering each other. This is called art of making good show. Book every award for this show, if all the remaining episodes of Aspirants are of same level or better.

Taish (2020)

Ultra Boring Show

[2/10 · 30 October 2020]

One side when you end up watching SpecialOPS, Scam-HarshadMehtra, Mirzapur , PataalLok, Asur, The Familyman, or Avrodh or Panchayat like stuff, and when you watch this one, you get only enough lazy to sleep. Based on some high praise across newspapers and media for this web series I tried to watch it. Its such a dull drama that when we slept while watching it we did not know! I don't recommend this useless boring drama. It will waste your time. The director must learn the art of web series making from some of the shows I listed above. Mirzapur, FamilyMan, PaatalLok, Panchayat and Asur have already set the standard too high which even film industry is finding difficult to match. In that high quality scenario, you can't fool public here with nonesense. This show clearly exhibited its naivety towards public mood and interest. Add to that dull acting and screenplay, and punjabi dialogues. What crap you have made man???

Panchayat (2020– )

How simplicity wins over all is Panchayat, the best of year so far

[10/10 · 12 April 2020]

In this testing time when every one is tired of so much negativity , here comes a show which bring you back to old glorious days of entertainment where human emotions and connections to each other in every thick and thin strengthened our belief of togetherness in society, simple people around whom we could admire and look up to. Panchayat is same world around us which asks us to find heroes in people around us, no matter if they have their own faults, they have hidden gem souls. If you have no friends, they can give u company with beer n chakhna, if you loose hope from life you get some one who is worse than you but wins coz she does not loose hope, and when you don't find anything lovely to fall in love with...There is always a pani ka tanki to fall in love.....Marvellous show Panchayat is. The soul of the show are the way it's various characters have been developed and played to the hilt by each one of the cast. Raghuveer Yadav is show stealer, but Chandan Roy as Vikas, the assistant of Secretary sahab is revelation....This man wins your heart straight and you want to have a Vikas like friend in your life. This boy is next Pankaj Tripathi. Another ace of this show is the way entire narration has been done. They show you that one can make an entire gripping episode just on a chair! After seeing shows like Panchayat , you firmly start believing that golden days of entertainment may be nearer if we series like this are being made...Which u can enjoy with your entire family without fearing for any dirty mindless scene or dialogue...And the characters become parmanent part of your life n memory.

The Family Man (2019– )

A Turning Point and Gold Standard for Indian Web Series World n Cinema

[10/10 · 22 September 2019]

I can vouch that to this date no Indian web series reached even an inch of what this terrific web series has given. It's such a tight crisp to the point show...Any clap would be less. Bldy even 70 years independence no Indian film could make a proper spy thriller and how the agencies work....We got some fcng Tiger Zinda Hai to Tiger aur zinda rahega...Or Baghi2. To some extent Sarfarosh was good. But Family Man blows apart all.

The web series haa 10 episodes each around 40 to 50 min long...And see the class that not for a single min u feel it boring or dragging. It not just gives u the view the high pressure way our spies work for the nation, but how each of them r as human as us ...Struggling to keep balance, things under cover and deliver to protect us while world enjoys, have fun and no1 even cares for them....But they keep working for u for that small salaried sarkari job ...Go out of way and die every day with their own personal problems including health etc totally neglected. U worry for salary hike and this n that ...And that man chooses to take only that salary...Eat anything...Run on call anytime....Though he has always choice to leave all and have a decent well salaried sexy life. ...Due to these few great men this country is safe. Every 1 of them counts a lot and thank them when u sleep well in night thinking on ur personal problems...Coz these guys have even stopped thinking on their personal problems for u!

From story to cinematography, screenplay, direction .....U will find it hard to detect any issue. And when this is topped with am enable of great performances which make ur entire bollywood look so joker and pygmy....U r compelled to clap for such a great show.

Manoj Bajpai is a blessing to cinema. This man is a thunder who perfectly capturs every emotion so easily. Be it terrified of his wife, helpless about his revolting kids, almost fractured married life, but razor sharp on work bench, ruthless in dealing the criminals, but having a human heart on funding a misguided youth taking terrorism...His sheer disgust for communalism fueled these days concept of anti nationalism ....This man is plain God of acting. No need to write on him.

He is ably supported by Sharib Hashim as JK , the man whom even his wife envies as most of the time they r together. Sharib Hashim had made filmistaan, but this web series is gonna get him the bests of his life ahead. World will remember him for The Family Man.

There r other actors also like Manoj wife Priya mani, Succhi, and Sharad Lekar...But young unknown actors or small time actors have scored far bigger as juniors of Manoj and Sharib working day night to keep life of common men easy. So the guys playing terrorists. Gul Panag was refreshing.

Family man is a very well research and perfectly made web series on a topic in which Indian cinema always behaved as joker. This is not just a web series...But a gift to Indian cinema...And definitely a turning point in the timeline of Indian web series....Mind it..No webserver comes even inch closer to Family man. It's the best thing happened so far. And it will now define the future of Indian web series. Eagerly waiting Season 2 as the end of S1 was not complete. Class apart stuff👏👏👏👏👏👏

Chhichhore (2019)

Excellent Film

[9/10 · 8 September 2019]

The title of the movie may not attract you and the movie may not have looked promising from its trailer.... But Chichore is one of those few films which watch very casually and end up falling in love with.

This year has seen great content driven movies becoming the winners and Chichore is one of them. If Super 30 told you a story of winner against adversities, Chichore tells you that life is much beyond winners and losers...It's more about fighters.

Two stories run in parallel narrating that ordeals of every generation remains same but what matters is that how you deal. We all pass through same phases of life. The movie beautifully underlines the importance of friends in life, how hostel life is important ...Friends which became our life once and today in settled life we don't even know where they r...We don't know the real name of our best friends...This film goes very deep indeed. The film is nopreachy , full of positivity...So much that even the rivals who were pitted against had even positive things to speak at last. The film scores on every front. Narration and screenplay is apt. Some People were telling that it's combo of 3 idiots and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar...Which is totally wrong. Few scenes of hostel life may resemble but otherwise totally different aspect of life is dealt.

But what I found the biggest strength of the movie is that there is no one person hero, and baring few like SSR Shradhda and Varun Choocha, all r fresh faces or small time actors seen mainly in TV shows or commercials ...And they deliver big shots. Credit must go to the casting director Mukesh Chhabra for this. The best example of this is character of Bevda, Mess Cook Pandu and Derek. They win ur heart and they r long time actors who got small roles in shows like crime petrol or some ads on TV. This is a movie which I would recommend every one to watch. There r couple of vulgar dialogues during hostel scenes which may embarrass you watching with family but overall content and message is so good that those dialogues get limited just for their momentary purpose. Highly recommended.

Bharat (2019)

Another Kooda Movie from Salman Khan

[4/10 · 6 June 2019]

Salman Khan is testing pateince of the people and their pocket also. This is another crass movie coming from him which terribly lacks any plot, any narration style...any originality. Even scenes of this movie have been copied from several old bollywood movies. And above all, Salman Khan appears to have not even an inch of sense that how an Old man feels and looks...his old man role and young man role has only one difference...those duplicate white beards...rest the old man salman character looks as ready to dance as the young one....bldy he has taken Indian public as dnkey? It is better to wait for some time and watch Super 30 or Article 15 than wasting money on this crapman's crap movie.

Hostages (2019– )

Utter Kooda Kachda Web Series

[5/10 · 6 June 2019]

This webseries is an utter waste of talented actors, terribly lacks on plots, logics and almost everything. It could be counted among the worst screenplay and directions ever done for any Indian webseries. Sudhir Mishra...an overhyped director's weaknesses become very crystal clear. I had never believed in this director and always considered him overhyped. But here he is wide open with his poor lack of depth.

The plot is extermely week. A doctor family is made hostage to operate on CM and get him killed. This entire misison is being funded by some businessman in Gurgaon...who has a joker like presence of just 2 minutes scene with dialogue that Brahman ko bhojan ke beech me nahi tokte! Absurd! And in this entire mission, what is the logic to kill the CM ...only God knows. To kill CM, a dry honest police officer is hired, who is doing it for money for bone marrow transplant of his wife. And this man further hires some lampoons who r enough good to spoil any misison..yet he hires them....end of the story the police officer's wife is found as an illegitimate child of a rpist CM who finds himself lying nearby his illegitimate daughter and when he wants to get up, Ronit Roy says "lete rahiye..apko to waese narak me hona chahiye tha lekin abhi aap apni beti ke bagal me hain"!.....Show is over! Jitni galiyan padho sudhir Mishra aur screenwriter ko uitna kum. SUdhir Mishra has no clue how to stitch stories with scenes. Every scene is scattered, and overtly dragged. There is hardly any good thing to tell about this movie.

Had the same money been given to TVF, they would have made a far superior show from it.

Thinkistan (2019)

A good series which ends abruptly and incomplete

[8/10 · 30 May 2019]

I usually feel that barring Amazon, Hotstar and TVF, so far no web channel as been able to bring great content based web series, more so when it comes to something to watch with family like Kota Factory, Yeh Meri Family or Criminal Justice. So I had no expectations from MX player either.

However, Thinkistan changes my that view for MX. Right from first frame, the series looks creative. However, the first episode was a bit vulgar and going a bit over the top to show how open minded Ad world people are. It can make you uncomfortable while watching with family. But thereafter the show starts moving on conent.

Its a story of two different men who join an Ad company the same day. One is from Bhopal, Amit (Naveen Katuria), who is assigned a job of Hindi translator..a quite low profile simple guy with having arrays of family and financial problems back at home in Bhopal. He has to sleep on roads after office hour, eat vada pao as lunch while hiding from colleages who go to costly restaurents. And is a bit introvert and awed by smart people around. Another is a junior trainee, Hema(Shravan reddy), who is a Bombay local, but belongs to Andhra. He is good in English and has good presentability. On entry day itself despite of being a trainee, he wins hearts of all, while no one cares about Amit. But who cares about Amit, the trainee guy, Hema, himself.

The show uses an Ad agency office in the backdrop but reveals lots of human emotions and character, their behavior and the hidden humanity and sensitivity among them to help each other...how friendship grows between two drastically opposite individuals and beauty and unconditional affection of friendship, and also later jealousy.

The best thing of the show is the sensitive and pitch perfect performanc of the two protagonists, Hema and Amit. Naveen Kasturia's laughing style is infectious and he will make you life. His character holds peculiar innocence, so does Hema's. Rest of the actors are just OK.

This is a show to watch with family. But just due to some really vulgar or explecit scenes (mainly in 1st Episode), it can't be watched with your kids or parents around. Otherwise, this one is another winner of Indian web series world. People r seriously gonna stop watching TVs in few days.

Having said this all, the weakest point of this series is that it ends very abruptly at the moment where you expect Amit and Hema life taking turnaround. You are left high and dry with this abrupt ending and story looks incomplete. Indian people still love conclusive style, not open endedness that of this incomplete sort of.

Criminal Justice (2019– )

Terrific Show...Waiting for next case

[9/10 · 16 April 2019]

I have decided to subscribe to web channels than wasting my money on TV, after seeing shoes like Criminal Justice on Hotstar, or Selection Day on Netflix, or Yeh meri Family and Pitchers on TVF. Criminal justice is delight to watch . It is superb in all area with crisp and interesting narration style and tight plotting. Every actor has done brilliant job, but the show stealer is PANKAJ TRIPATHI as a simple lawyer pressed by his needs and raised by his humanity. This man plays so subtly hia role that his modest humble appearance whenever it occurs, it elevates ur mood, makes u believe in the power of simplicity and you fall in love with Madhav Mishra. Pankaj Tripathy's performance is indeed something which actors should learn from. Just watch his varieties of human emotion with calm face...His need to money, his desire to help the innocent boy, his frustration on Nikhay botching up the case yet maintaining the calm, and meeting rudest of person with ease and get hia job done. This man is certainly amon the best actors today existing jn Hindi cinema, in the league of Manoj Bajpai, Irfan Khan, Sanjay Mishra, Nawaz and Raj Kumar Rao. U can watch a movie just for him.

There r some flaws but not that big. After revealing the culprit , the crime must have been reconstructed which the director gave a miss. Also the pairing of Nikhat and Madhav Mishra was so much delightful...You must have estaablished a romantic bridge between them. I am waiting for the second case of Madhav Mishra and Nikhat together. They r our new found Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Bandyopadhyay. And a romantic bridging is necessary between them...They look so lovely and apt to each other.

Finally, who needs TV when you have web channels making such great serials!