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City of Dreams (2019)

It's not uncommon to hear "Mumbai is a city, Bombay is an emotion," indeed high on emotions and drama, people of Bombay have a lot of diverse sentiments, some heartwarming others gut-wrenching. City of dreams explores the city beyond the glamour that lures millions in every year, while the city isn't fair to everyone it, everyone isn't fair to the city either.

Drunk with power, Ashish Rao Gaikwad (Siddharth Chandekar), is driven solely by self-interest. He is eager to emerge as the new face of the party after his father's attempted assassination but his sister Poornima Rao Gaikwad (Priya Bapat), actually becomes the one to face serious responsibility. The next character of interest is a conscientious cop whose resolute goodwill to uproot everything unjust in the city has gotten him only transfers to different branches in the past. Now he is on to decoding the mystery of the minister's attempted assassination but wait, there's more, the show also houses fairly interesting subplots of a salesman tired of the job and a sex worker whose wisdom and free spirit surpasses the walls of her profession.

'City of dreams' is a gripping enough tale of many lives that seem unrelated but tied together by the unforgiving city that they thrive in.

City of dreams is a classic truism of gangster tactics and offers nothing new or exciting to look forward to. Set in the year 2015, it follows the story of a prominent political figure Ameya Rao Gaekwad’s family as they set on the journey to get the political seat after the father lays in the state of coma after a futile attempt of assassination on him. In my opinion, the show was stretched on without any rational cause or for that matter, any storyline. The show got repetitive and highly predictable as I watched on. There are many supporting characters to the story but even they could not add much appeal to the experience.

Revolving around the huge political ambitions of the Gaikwad family in the city of Mumbai, with politicians setting their eyes on the coveted seat of 'Dilli', this is a often heard description of the political developments in the badlands of U.P. and Bihar. The change of setting this time acts as a refreshing breeze in the stereotypical drought of the political crime genre, except Sacred Games which was of course brilliant. This show, however, struggles to keep it free of the common banalities that seem to prop up quite often. Overall, a typical political-crime drama. Skip it if you have watched too much of this genre, however, watchable for the enthusiasts.

This 10 episodes web series is a culmination of #political and #thoughtProvoking turn of events. The phrase" City Of Dreams" is used for Mumbai and thus have #gangster drama. The plot is badly written with #predictable events happening and potrayal of #obsession is made all throughut the series. there are multiple plots running at the same time in the web series. On one hand one character wants to be the only heir of his parents property and on the other a couple are reluctantly mad in love with each other. It can be said that the work of the actors can be blamed but we need not forget the bad written script.