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Thinkistan (2019)

Basing someone's worth on their familiarity with a hip vernacular or rejecting someone based on their inability to communicate using "cool" foreign reference is a scary prospect but not an uncommon one. Workplace biases have existed since forever and have forced many into working beneath their potential. Thikistan addresses these biases and also hits hard on so much that's wrong with currently prevailing toxic work culture.

The show opens with Hema (Shravan Reddy) composing a short ballad about quitting his job in the automobile industry to pursue his passion as a writer in a famous marketing agency. Parallelly, Amit (Naveen Kasturia) a Hindi writer from a small town with no resources to sustain himself has his sleep interrupted by cops while laying on a public bench. Both of them start their job as interns, but Hema soon garners astronomical rise in his career, while Amit is stuck at a lower position despite his innate talent and dedicated work.

Storylines are engrossing and follow the lives of the protagonist engagingly, always leaving the viewer wondering, what's about to happen next? Performances are strong, convincing and Navin Kasturia brings his A-game to portray a complex character who has been prejudiced against and pushed around.

The show is a highly recommended powerful watch with a thought-provoking subtext.

We live in a place where a person’s intelligence is measured by his fluency in English and his status is measured by the brands he wears. This is how superficial our society has become. Thinkistan is set in the city of Bombay in early 1990’s, a crucial era for advertising in India. The story is based on two polar opposite men Hema and Amit. Hema is the city bred well educated and stylish guy who is automatically considered to be the life of his company. Whereas Amit is from an impoverished lifestyle whose opinion does not matter much because of Hindi speaking existence. I am not a big fan of the show because it is prolonged way more than necessary and is quite repetitive. Though, Amit still manages to take everybody’s heart with his simplicity and innocence. I just wish he was given more screen time.

i am just in love with it, and i am sure you will be too. Main credits goes to the story and the #cinematography . From the start to the end , everything is #entertaining and #insightful . Not even a single episode missed an emotion to carry to the audience. This series was #classic , #clever and moreover it is #stylish . Being in an ad agency , they have shown what exactly should it be like. Many a times it makes us #emotional and sometimes makes us #feelGood and of course sometimes #hilarious . This is what i call #bestOfDrama and every one #mustWatch this series. Every one is living up to the character and at the moment it became so interesting , we have to see what's to come in future. i am still smiling with joy . great show

'Thinkstan' is set in the colourful advertising world that is apparently not free from the biases imbibed by a common man, almost effortlessly, through time. The class divide particularly, that is perhaps best embodied by the English vs Hindi struggle is at first subtly hinted at and then allowed to form a coherent structure. However, with a good story and brilliant actors like Mandira Bedi, Navin Kasturia and Shravan Reddy, a lot more could have been done yet wasn't. It would have made perhaps one of the best shows, had the script been more nuanced. However, it's still a nice one-time watch.