"Maharani" tells a story that could seem bizarre in many parts of the world. In India, an illiterate wife of an indisposed chief minister being pushed into the hotseat of Bihar politics makes for slice-of-life realism.
For creator Subhash Kapoor, a scoop off the forever simmering cauldron that is Bihar politics would seem like an automatic advantage when it comes to setting up instant drama. The flip side becomes evident soon enough as the show unfolds. Ten episodes would seem inadequate to sum up the infinitely complex socio-politics of Bihar, where scam and scamster, crime and criminal seem to be thriving in every cranny of the system, coupled by the fact that the state's cast and class equations set up a maze that is nearly impossible to decode.
Kapoor and series director Karan Sharma have only scraped the surface of the maze, to set sketchy characters and plot situations.
The...
For creator Subhash Kapoor, a scoop off the forever simmering cauldron that is Bihar politics would seem like an automatic advantage when it comes to setting up instant drama. The flip side becomes evident soon enough as the show unfolds. Ten episodes would seem inadequate to sum up the infinitely complex socio-politics of Bihar, where scam and scamster, crime and criminal seem to be thriving in every cranny of the system, coupled by the fact that the state's cast and class equations set up a maze that is nearly impossible to decode.
Kapoor and series director Karan Sharma have only scraped the surface of the maze, to set sketchy characters and plot situations.
The...
- 5/28/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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