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Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)
Madhavan hits it out of the park
Strong storyline, fast paced, interesting, and inspiring. Great acting and direction by all except for the last scene the SRK.
I was tempted to give it 10 stars but one star cut for Shah Rukh Khan's completely fake and horrible acting in the last scene. It stands out like a sore thumb.
Gullak (2019)
Good, not excellent anymore...because it has changed..
I would have given this season a rating of 9, however I downgraded for the following reasons.
..The downsides compared to Season 1:
Gullak is talking too much in Season 2. It is giving lectures, which are starkly weird compared to Season 1. Its boring and unnecessary
2. Gullak Season 2 is experimenting with the emergence of politically charged dialogues and lines...completely unnecessary and is starting to irritate. Each episode has lines which are targeting a certain section of the voting public or targeting a particular political party. If this continues, Gullak is going to just be another crassly foolish propagandist serial. E.g. the vannar Jai Shri Ram random scene...what were you trying to say, TVF? The Nehru + parody of 'freedom at midnight...TVF knows why they brought that in. Unnecessary. Doesn't add to your story.
And several more which can be listed by anyone who is politically aware.
This type of content detracts from your story and irritates discerning viewers who are looking for quality heartwarming content.
You NO LONGER stand out among your competition, with such scenes.
When I watch Gullak, I do not want to PAY to watch a televised version of twitter or Ravish Kumar. (He features openly in an episode!!).
The reason Gullak Season 1 was so much fun is that it is starkly different from the dark, negative, heavily political and propagandist serials.
I hope TVF aren't planning on going there with Gullak. Would be boring..and mostly, disappointing.
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020)
One of the best
Superlative.
Story, acting, scripting etc are all first class. Balanced...and of course, we do realize that the story has been filmed from Mehta's point of view.
The type of original content that is required on Indian OTT platforms. Sony Liv has hit the right note with this series and with several others like Gullak.
Bandish Bandits (2020)
Falls ike rain on a parched land
After many years, one gets to watch a show set in a smaller town of India and built around the beauty of classical music in a changing commerically crass musical world. It nicely brings together the clash of the pull of commerical cliched music with mellifluous and pure classical art.
This type of show us a breath of fresh air, raindrops on a parched soul...such a far cry from the cliched themes dished out to us by producers and script writers.
This is a show for a while family...at my place, my spouse, who didn't know the beginning from the end of classical music sat through each and every episode in a binge watch.
Watch it for the music, watch it to understand what goes into the making of a classical musician, watch it for Rajasthan and watch it for the sheer joy of seeing how India manages to thrive as time rolls on...the old blending and merging and encompassing the new.
Naseerudin shah makes a great vidwan, the young stars all fit their roles well, but mostly, I liked the nutty and funny star manager..who turns out to be a genuine good fella.