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Not a disappointment
Unlike most onscreen infallible families, Rathore's have their fair share of disappointments, drama, and feuds. The great Indian dysfunctional family is although a soap opera at heart, but comes quipped with a clean, modern and realistic narrative.

Vikram (Kay Kay Menon), is a retired Colonel whose injury forced him into leaving the army. Vikram's domineering and strict disposition towards his family makes him come off as cold. His second wife tries her best to accommodate to his and the family's needs which makes her feel dejected and repressed. His brother Samar (Barun Sobti), ran away from the despair a long time ago, and now has returned with his wife to be part of a family wedding. Vikram's mother, on the other hand, is a lively and vibrant woman who wishes to see her family reunited. While all of the members grapple to keep the frail threads of their relationships taught by putting aside their differences, chances of reconciliation look bleak. From Vikram's daughter's accidental revelation of her homosexual orientation to his mother's frailing health, many challenges are facing the Ranaut's, before the unconditionally accept each other.

The production design is pleasing, writing is on point and engaging. Performances aren't half baked either, and characters deliver some moving dialogues. It's a great watch for drama enthusiasts.
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Average short love stories
A show about chance encounter and serendipity that can bring people together, Love handles presents quirky scenarios that are capable of forming strong bonds between strangers.

Each short webisode comes with a new theme ranging anywhere from a south Indian engineer failing to woo potential arranged brides or a mute but kind-hearted soul attempting to find romantic companionship. With a few catchy lines here and there, a couple of accurate observations, there isn't a whole lot substance to it and the show requires quite a lot of work. Performances are pretty average too, not insufferable, just average.

It's a cute format with some meaningful stories but some wildly asinine. You might want to give this a shot when having a few minutes to kill.

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Beauty with brains
'Hey Prabhu!' does precisely curates certain some shiny elements just to attract young crowd, but it is powered by impressive writing at the heart. It's a palatable blend of "cool" twitter-ing superficiality and a meaningful plot and characters.

Tarun Prabhu (Rajat Barmecha), an average Joe with a passion for writing just got hired as an intern for a reputed media company 'croissant', solely because of an ace up his sleeve, the fact that he is a social media influencer with over a hundred thousand followers makes him an indispensable entity for his technologically backward employer, Mita (Achint Kaur). Mita is a conscientious editor, a perfectionist and a strong proponent of the classics. She feels her work ethics to be too pure to acknowledge a charade like Instagram or twitter flooding with amateur content. Mita is an interesting study and a multidimensional character like most well-developed characters in the show. Tarun grapples with work and his personal life on his journey to voice himself as a serious writer.

Inarguably, the best part of the show has to be casting. The fact that Tarun is a pretty regular guy and not some steroid riddled hunk, makes for a very resonating and real experience. The show is witty, engrossing and leaves you wondering what happens next. It's a great watch with a light-hearted disposition.

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Amish Gupta reviewed Bombae
A half baked attempt
It would be unfair to call the show bad or repulsive, but calling is good wouldn't be true either. Although the title is completely irrelevant to the storyline, thankfully the story and performances complement each other well.

Bombay is a story about the lives of 4 people. Rahul (Mohit Digambar), a successful but lonely IT engineer. His friend and roommate Sudeep (Saad Chaudhary), a struggling director. Shruti (Vidhi Chitalia), a top-level employee at an IT firm but bad at relationships when it comes to her personal life and her roommate Neena (Kshitija Saxena), a newbie to the big city. Both the pairs have moved into opposite flats in an apartment building. In the first look, everything seems pretty innocuous, but here's the surprise, Rahul and Shruti are in a relationship and so are Sudeep and Neena. Apartment owners' reluctance to rent flats to unmarried couples, prompt them into devising this plan of renting flats nearby. The series narrates their experiences and struggles so far, leading them into their current arrangement.

Besides choppy writing and mediocre production design, performances aren't all bad but there's nothing that stands out either. My final thoughts and initial thoughts about the show, however, remain consistently meh. This can be included in a watchlist but should be put at the extreme bottom.


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Better than a soap opera
The first thing bound to catch the eye is the stunning production design, couple of shots in the beginning itself scream fancy yet tasteful. Besides being an eye candy, 'Kehne Ko Humsafar hain' isn't harsh on other senses either. It's a well-done drama with a coming of age plotline and complex characters.

Rohit (Ronit Roy), a husband, and father of two stopped being in love with his wife a long time ago. He finds himself and his solace in Ananya's (Mona Singh) company who is an established interior designer and a pious soul. Rohit's wife Poonam (Gurdip Kohli) a resolute traditionalist, is although aware of her husband's affair but reluctant to address it. She believes that marriage is a sacred institute and must not be fiddled with. While her daughters feel differently on the topic, it's extremely hard to judge who is in the right and who is in the wrong. This quandry turns out to be extremely thought provocking and its execution can be credited to solid portrayals of multifaceted characters with substance. Writing is surprisingly fresh, modern and nuanced.

Overall the show is a great pick with a theme addressing heavy, meaningful questions and some pleasant performances by experienced actors who do justice to the ethos of the show.

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Amish Gupta reviewed Abhay
Good Enough
It might not score high on plot complexities or mind-bending twists, but it rates off the charts when judged for gory and brutality. With some of the darkest and uncensored criminal portrayals, you can't deny the need of mental endurance to go through even one episode.

Abhay, a committed cop is known to go above and beyond the duty to serve justice. His past encounters have landed him in trouble for serving justice his own way. His performance of a resolute cop is convincing and his good looks sure help his case. Supporting actors, however are a mixed bag some convincing and others weak. Writing and direction manage to establish a vicious and grave ethos, but the cases aren't thrilling and deliver way less than they promise.

A subplot of the murder of Abhay's wife and his paranoia towards his son's safety does offer some help in drawing the viewer back for the next episode. It's a mediocre production with a highly graphic portrayal of inhumanity.

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Amish Gupta reviewed RejctX
The 40 minutes I am never getting back
From scenes directly taken out of the popular teen movie "High school Musical" and backdrops that could beat ostentatious schools of a Dharma production, RejctX tries to be a lot of things but fails miserably at each one of them. Nothing about the show is convincing and a superficial plotline doesn't help its case either.

'RejctX' is a group of misfits who use Rap as their weapon against societal repression, but ironically, they are the most privileged and uptight group of teenagers you'll ever see. I couldn't find one amicable character within the show except of course the charming have it all protagonist, for whom pieces just fall into place. It's hard to not feel enraged by the unoriginality of writing and even harder to like anything about the show. There remains one staggering question, who made the casting choices? None of the characters are played naturally and none of the characters have anything natural about them either. Actors fail at delivering convincing portrayals.

This thriller mystery so far doesn't meet the standards of either a thriller or a mystery. With just two episodes in, it might be a bit early to make a judgment, but so far, this show is everything that is wrong with teenage shows.

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Wildly misleading
Don't, and I repeat, don't fall for the seemingly enticing trailer with a clever theme of a business trying to fulfill impossible wishes. The show delivers nothing of the sort and comes off as rather an unpalatable melange of off beat mess. This Arre original is boring, lacks structure and follows a chaotic plotline.

The show starts with Dev Awasthi (Shivankit Singh Parihar) being interviewed for his wildly successful start-up 'Tathaastu,' where they take "your wish is my command" attitude to the next level and gets seemingly impossible requests sorted in no time. His team includes a lot of wacky characters, none of which are interesting enough or well developed. With conspicuously choppy writing and pale dialogues, the show fails to hold attention even for a couple of minutes. The pace is slow and direction could use a lot of work. Their first case is Taimur's missing potty training chair, and nothing could have been more mind-numbing than that. Everything in the show is forcefully tied and distastefully presented.

I wouldn't recommend this show to any with a sense of humor for witty and ingenious ideas. Steer clear of this half baked attempt.

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A supernatural series that lacks super.
Compassionate vampires, mysterious disappearances and cursed soils, Red Ruby cramps in a lot of plot twists and revelations in a short series with an average episode no longer than 15 minutes. Unfortunately, neither are all the plot twists palatable nor jaw-dropping. It's easy to judge from an opening couple of minutes that the target audience for the series are young adults which Brat aims for anyway. Cool lingo and typical teen problems is what the show opens with before turning into a supernatural thriller.

A powerful local industrialist decided to start drilling land in his city with a lot of oil potential but uses environmentally disastrous measures to extract it. In response, a high school student Amber (Noa Drake) protests against drilling dragging her friend Theo (Michael Campion) into it who has been specifically told by his mother to steer clear of the land due to the land's horrid history. Protests and the drilling lead to unpleasant discoveries about the land's past leaving the whole town susceptible to dangerous vampires. The plot is a mouthful, but that's the only factor making it gripping. Writing lacks any clever, serious effort and performances are quite average too.

It's a weak show with glaring plotholes but makes up for good time killing drama. Show can be recommended as a lazy watch especially when without anything better at hand.

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Unmoving and ambiguous
Sisterhood tales are extremely short videos about women backing up other women. In a male-dominated society, it's paramount for girls to look out and care for their kind. Out of many possible scenarios, Sisterhood tales chose to make videos about the most unmoving ones.

Videos are no doubt cool, crisp and intense with some compelling writing and performances, but fail to make a point of any sort. In the first video, a girl in a club saves another girl near the bar from getting drugged by a predator. That made sense and was quite convincing as well but the subsequent episodes were ambiguous with a muffled up message.

The show can be credited to portraying a wide gamut of emotions, although all of those aren't portrayed with consistent conviction. Episodes are only a few minutes long, I don't see why should anyone refrain from watching, just don't expect wonders.

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