Script: 2/10
(Please don't use google to translate your hindi script into Pashtu or Farsi. Pashtu & Farsi translations/dialogues and their delivery were as bad as it could be. If you can't get your actors speak the local language then DON'T include such stuff to make it feel real.
Story: 3/10
Cast: 4/10 (actors could have done better, but I guess that's what director asked them to do)
Direction: 3/10 Very cliché. Typical Bollywood masala movie style. The only thing which differentiate this series from other mainstream Bollywood stuff is Shahrukh Khan dances with butterflies on item songs, though I was expecting that somewhere down the line.
Location (outdoor): 6/10 (somehow managed to create a little bit feel of local authenticity)
Location (indoor): 6/10 (gave to much attention and in result end up overdoing the interiors with lots of Arabic scripts, cultural decoration and other small elements at the surroundings but put way to little efforts to get the soul in the indoor shots)
Local culture: 2/10 (miserably failed to rightly portray the local culture, language, norms, values and traditions, director should have spent at least an hour or so to study that.)
Costumes: 6/10
Actions: 3/10 (Either you make it look real or you take cinematic liberties, director was riding both the boats at the same time.)
Music & title graphics: 3/10
ADVISE TO DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Please don't come up with season 2 within 6 or 8 months time. The least you could do to get some inspiration is to watch Reluctant Fundamentalist, Zero Dark Thirty, The Road to Guantanamo or some stuff of Anurag Kashyap or Quentin Trantino.
Story: 3/10
Cast: 4/10 (actors could have done better, but I guess that's what director asked them to do)
Direction: 3/10 Very cliché. Typical Bollywood masala movie style. The only thing which differentiate this series from other mainstream Bollywood stuff is Shahrukh Khan dances with butterflies on item songs, though I was expecting that somewhere down the line.
Location (outdoor): 6/10 (somehow managed to create a little bit feel of local authenticity)
Location (indoor): 6/10 (gave to much attention and in result end up overdoing the interiors with lots of Arabic scripts, cultural decoration and other small elements at the surroundings but put way to little efforts to get the soul in the indoor shots)
Local culture: 2/10 (miserably failed to rightly portray the local culture, language, norms, values and traditions, director should have spent at least an hour or so to study that.)
Costumes: 6/10
Actions: 3/10 (Either you make it look real or you take cinematic liberties, director was riding both the boats at the same time.)
Music & title graphics: 3/10
ADVISE TO DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Please don't come up with season 2 within 6 or 8 months time. The least you could do to get some inspiration is to watch Reluctant Fundamentalist, Zero Dark Thirty, The Road to Guantanamo or some stuff of Anurag Kashyap or Quentin Trantino.