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Bhaag Beanie Bhaag (2020)
Utter time waste
1 star for the spot boys and staff. Swara bhasker is unbearable.
Bhaag Beanie Bhaag (2020)
Utter time waste
1 star for the spot boys and staff. Swara bhasker is unbearable.
Aashram (2020)
Horrible show. Must avoid.
1 star for the spot-boys and other supporting artists.
Laxmii (2020)
Worst plagiarised of an otherwise good south movie
Worst movie. Akshay Kumar should just keep himself to selling fake nationalism. Movie is also full of Hinduphobic and is utterly transphobic
The Boys (2019)
What !! Weekly release of episodes !!
We quit cable TV to OTT only for rhe reason to finally binge watch our favourite shows in one go. Not to wait for them every week. I hope it is a one off thing and Amazon doesn't make it a habit.
Mirzapur (2018)
Ali Fazal sucks
The show could have been better if not for Ali Fazal. Can pass.
Flesh (2020)
Ok direction made worse by weak acting.
Not worth the time. The acting by both the lead actors is pathetic. I don't know how Swara Bhasker gets it wrong everytime and seems out of the skin in any role she gets into.
Can skip this one.
Rasbhari (2019)
Weak script, abhorrent acting, below average overall
Honestly tried to give is an unbiased dekho. Could not tolerate beyond 20 min of pilot. Total waste of time. The show tries to sell itself as having some steamy scenes of the protagonist but even fails there. Better watch some Ullu or AltBalaji series.
Bard of Blood (2019)
Below average. Don't waste your time.
Confession- after watching many western spy thriller I always lamented as to why we don't create such gems. Thought Bard of Blood might cut the cake. IT DIDN'T
Don't go by the 'user' reviews who are nothing but the own members of the production team. THIS SERIES SUCKS
It's just a 6 hour long Bollywood masala movie. After the 2nd episode I just kept on watching to see how much of an idiot the creators of this series think of their audience.
Poor direction, poor writing, average action, too many loopholes in the story. The story does not have a continuous flow, Scenes jump from one story to another, no coherence. They can't even train their actors to handle a rifle properly, and they are supposed to be the best of the best agents.
It's like a South-Bombay version of 'deshdrohi'
4 star for location and the arts team for balochistan sets.
Should have known it would be a typical bollywood masala flick the moment 'Red Chillies' came up.
If you love watching political and spy dramas have seen many, kindly give it a pass. You will just end up peeling off your skin looking at the sorry state of Indian Cinema in this genre.
The Family Man (2019)
Average series in this genre
I started watching this series only for Manoj Bajpayee and he is the only worthy face in it. To be honest, the first 3 episodes are very nice but after that it traces a cliched line of a clerk-like pratagonist doing James Bond level stuff so much as going undercover to Pak helping US capture a Top US Wanted terrorist. I mean, Come on !!
Important : Every episode ends with a tagline "inspired by news headlines" and i feel the headlines have been chosen by the makers as per their own political leanings as the series felt politically motivated where dreaded terrorists are humanised as victims who chose the path to terror due to losing family members in 2002 Riots or by Army in kashmir. While NIA, Army and police as brutal as institutional oppressors with some exceptions. Cow violence, though a grave matter, are heavily exaggerated as the official policy of the government cause of radicalisation among muslim youth whreas in actual there has not been a single instance of such radicalisation (remember the series claims to be inspired from real events). This is demonising the muslims as well as "Revenge seekers" who kill innocent 'kaafirs' (word used multiple times in the series).
Army has been shown as oppressor in kashmir who 'rule' and brutalize innocent civilians without the nuances of the actual happenings and violence from both the sides. Cross border terrorism has also been shown to be done by some non-state actors while the Pak govt tries to help India by stopping them, which again is a lie.
The above can be clubbed under 'artistic freedom' but not when the makers claim to have been "inspired by news headlines"
All in all, a series that could have been much much better if not for cliched "Gas/nuclear attack" being planned by the antagonists and an Uncle type 'Field Agent' who at one time sits like a clerk in a cubicle and next moment is fighting terrorists in Kashmir and Balochistan.
5 Stars for cinematography, Camera work, and some never seen before scenes from Kashmir, occassional wit and humour and of course Manoj Bajpayee.